Your Rome-bound clients have something new to look forward to next year: The Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hotel company, has been appointed to manage the five-star luxury Grand Hotel Via Veneto in Rome. The Group will take over the running of the privately-owned hotel and integrate it into its global portfolio of hotels and resorts in early 2012, when the property will be rebranded as Jumeirah Grand Hotel Via Veneto, Rome.
Located on the ultra-swank and ultra-exclusive via Veneto right in the heart of the city, the hotel has 122 rooms and suites, two fine dining restaurants, an award-winning bar, a rooftop solarium and the state-of-the-art Aqva City spa. We love the handmade furniture and custom-made Murano glass chandeliers, black granite floors and travertine stairways. Art fans, take note! The hotel has an impressive art collection of oil paintings and lithographs by artists like Picasso, Miró, Nespolo, Dalí, Carrara, Burri, Guttuso and de Chirico, with an original “Plan of Rome” created by Giovanni Battista Nolli in 1748.
While all of the rooms at the hotel are impressive, we're most excited about the 5,000+-square-foot Royal Suite, which has two bedrooms, a dining room, three large Carrara marble bathrooms, a private marble hammam and a huge outdoor terrace with access to an open air hydromassage. If your clients want to look out over the city, many of the rooms overlook the historic Porta Pinciana and the gardens of Villa Borghese just beyond.
With the addition of Jumeirah Grand Hotel Via Veneto, Jumeirah Group now has five luxury properties under management in Europe: Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel and the recently announced Grosvenor House Apartments by Jumeirah Living in London; and Jumeirah Frankfurt in Germany. In Spring 2012, the company will open Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa in Mallorca, Spain.
So far this year Jumeirah Group has opened a total of five new hotels: Jumeirah Zabeel Saray in Dubai, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, Jumeirah Frankfurt in Germany, Jumeirah Dhevanafushi in the Maldives and Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai in China. With new properties opening in London, Rome, Mallorca, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Maldives, and Dubai in the coming six months, Jumeirah Group expects to have doubled its portfolio of hotels, resorts and serviced residences under management since the start of 2011.