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Park Plaza hotels

Full-service hotels span European city landmarks and pine-backed resorts on Croatia's Istrian coast.

Park Plaza offers full-service city stays and coastal holidays, with a substantial European presence shaped by PPHE Hotel Group. Its hotels range from London and Amsterdam to the pine-backed Istrian coast, within a brand family that became part of Radisson through Carlson.

31 Park Plaza hotels in 8 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by Radisson Hotel Group
• Worldwide: 32 public hotels in the Atlas, in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, India, Thailand, and China
• On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 25 Accessible Luxury, 5 Near Luxury

History

The American company came first. Park Plaza International was founded in 1986 as a full-service management and licensing group, with Park Inn underneath the Park Plaza name. The hotels that still define the flag were assembled by someone else. In 1989 Eli Papouchado, already a developer, bought the Mandarin Hotel in Eindhoven. That building, from about 1980, is still PPHE's first house, 104 rooms on Geldropseweg. Around 2000 Carlson became owner of the Park Plaza brand. In 2002 PPHE formed the marketing alliance that tied its European hotels to Carlson's system, and later took a perpetual EMEA licence. The company floated in London in 2007, bought the worldwide rights to art'otel the same year, and renamed itself PPHE Hotel Group in 2012 so the sign on the door could cover more than one brand. In April 2019 Radisson Hotel Group and PPHE rolled out a new Park Plaza identity together.

Timeline

• 1986 — Park Plaza International is founded in the United States, a management and licensing company with Park Inn beneath the Park Plaza name.
• 1989 — Eli Papouchado buys the Mandarin Hotel in Eindhoven, the building that becomes PPHE's first hotel and later Park Plaza Eindhoven.
• 1993 — The group takes on the Victoria Hotel in Amsterdam, the 1890 national monument opposite Centraal that is now the brand's architectural flagship.
• 2000 — Carlson becomes owner of the Park Plaza brand.
• 2002 — PPHE forms a strategic alliance with Carlson, linking the European hotels to Carlson's reservations and brand system.
• 2004 — Royal Exchange House on Leeds City Square, a 1966 tower, opens as a 187-room Park Plaza.
• 2005 — Park Plaza London Riverbank opens on the Albert Embankment; Cardiff opens as the fifth UK house; Carlson opens China's first Park Plaza on Jinbao Street in Beijing.
• 2007 — PPHE floats and acquires worldwide rights to art'otel; Park Plaza Bangkok Asoke opens in December as Thailand's first.
• 2008 — Park Plaza County Hall London opens at 1 Addington Street, beside County Hall and the London Eye.
• 2010 — Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London opens on the cleared County Hall Island Block, a 1,019-room South Bank tower.
• 2012 — The company name becomes PPHE Hotel Group; Park Plaza Histria Pula and Park Plaza Verudela Pula take the flag on the Verudela peninsula.
• 2015 — Park Plaza Arena Pula reopens in summer after a PPHE and Arenaturist rebuild of the old Hotel Park.
• 2016 — The former Bavarian-American Hotel opposite Nuremberg station becomes Park Plaza Nuremberg.
• 2017 — Hercules House near Waterloo and a new Park Royal hotel on the A40 both open in June.
• 2018 — The wider Carlson Rezidor family presents itself as Radisson Hotel Group.
• 2019 — A new Park Plaza identity is unveiled with PPHE in April; a 1973 house on Koningslaan becomes Park Plaza Vondelpark, Amsterdam, in October.
• 2022 — Choice Hotels completes its purchase of the Radisson hotels business in the Americas.
• 2023 — The Bem rakpart art'otel in Buda, four Baroque houses plus a 2000 block, becomes Park Plaza Budapest.
• 2025 — Park Plaza Wallstreet Berlin Mitte ends operations on 25 August when Arena Hospitality Group terminates the lease.

The houses to know

1. Park Plaza Victoria Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands — An 1890 national monument opposite Centraal, with two older houses still buried in the facade.
2. Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London, London, United Kingdom — Papouchado's South Bank tower, 1,019 rooms facing Parliament.
3. Park Plaza Victoria London, London, United Kingdom — One of the first London Park Plazas, with a Venetian cicchetti room downstairs.
4. Park Plaza London Riverbank, London, United Kingdom — A Thames-side house on the Albert Embankment, grown from 394 rooms to 645.
5. Park Plaza London Waterloo, London, United Kingdom — Hercules House, once the Central Office of Information, opened as a hotel in 2017.
6. Park Plaza London Park Royal, London, United Kingdom — PPHE's first west-London Park Plaza, opened 28 June 2017.
7. Park Plaza Arena Pula, Pula, Croatia — The old Hotel Park, rebuilt and reopened as a Park Plaza in summer 2015.
8. Park Plaza Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands — PPHE's first hotel, the old Mandarin on Geldropseweg.
9. Park Plaza Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom — The hotel is in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
10. Park Plaza Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands — 102 rooms on Koningslaan, looking into the park since October 2019.

Newest openings

• Park Plaza Budapest — Budapest, Hungary — took the Park Plaza name in 2023 — four 18th-century Baroque houses on Bem rakpart plus a block from 2000, an art'otel for about twenty years before the flag changed, with Donald Sultan's work on the walls and Parliament across the Danube in Buda.
• Park Plaza Vondelpark, Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands — joined the brand October 2019 — The 102-room hotel occupies a 1973 building on Koningslaan, within walking distance of the Rijksmuseum. Its interiors include work by Digital Space and park-inspired bird artwork by Lieze van Zonneveld.

Opening next

• No further Park Plaza openings with a confirmed name, city, and year were identified in the sources reviewed. Reports about additional London rooms do not yet establish a dated hotel opening.

Every Park Plaza hotel on the atlas

United Kingdom

• Park Plaza Cardiff — Cardiff · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza London Park Royal — London · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza London Riverbank — London · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza London Waterloo — London · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Nottingham — Nottingham · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Victoria London — London · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London — London · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza County Hall London — London · Near Luxury
• Park Plaza Leeds — Leeds · Near Luxury

India

• Park Plaza Ahmedabad — Ahmedabad · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Chennai OMR — Chennai · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Delhi CBD Shahdara — New Delhi · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Faridabad — Faridabad · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Gurgaon — Gurgaon · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Ludhiana — Ludhiana · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Jodhpur — Jodhpur · Near Luxury

Netherlands

• Park Plaza Victoria Amsterdam — Amsterdam · Core Luxury
• Park Plaza Eindhoven — Eindhoven · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Vondelpark, Amsterdam — Amsterdam · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport — Schiphol · Near Luxury
• Park Plaza Utrecht — Utrecht · Near Luxury

Croatia

• Park Plaza Arena Pula — Pula · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Belvedere Medulin — Medulin · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Histria Pula — Pula · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Verudela Pula — Pula · Accessible Luxury

China

• Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing — Beijing · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Changzhou — Changzhou · Accessible Luxury

Germany

• Park Plaza Nuremberg — Nuremberg · Accessible Luxury
• Park Plaza Trier — Trier · Accessible Luxury

Hungary

• Park Plaza Budapest — Budapest · Accessible Luxury

Thailand

• Park Plaza Bangkok Asoke — Bangkok · Accessible Luxury

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