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We have already seen the film (we have even visited the Malasaña barbershop which, paying homage to the film, gives you mustaches like those of the protagonists of the Grand Budapest Hotel). Now it's time to find those hotel references that make us think that this hotel, coming out of Wes Anderson's mental oven, is a compendium of accommodations where we can sleep. Here goes our daring pool.
THE GOAT ON THE ROOF
Is it a moose? A deer? That being with prominent antlers that stands on a cliff and watches the hotel from afar, irremediably reminds us of the Chateau de la Chevre D'Or in Eze, in the middle of the Côte d'Azur mountains. Actually, the little animal with the golden key is a goat, also golden, a symbol of the five-star hotel, but tell me that it doesn't have its Budapestian point.
The antlers, do not miss
THE MOUNTAINOUS ENVIRONMENT
The fictional country of the film, Zubrowka , is presented as diorama-love-letter addressed to Old Europe , in the context of the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the impressive landscapes of jagged peaks that embrace the Grand Budapest Hotel lead us inevitably to another very cinematographic hotel, the Hotel Timberline (in the snowy mountains of Oregon) where it was filmed the glow . If we are faithful to Europe, we could relate it to the Hotel Bergwelt, in the Austrian Tyrol and in the middle of the Obergurgl mountains.
Grand Budapest Hotel and The Timberline
THE ARRIVAL, AN EXPERIENCE
Guests of the Grand Budapest Hotel cannot be afraid of heights or suffer from claustrophobia: a funicular is responsible for lifting them to the top of the mountains to the very door in a mini cabin. Yes, precious. In Europe, on top of the mountain Schafberg in Austria , is the boastful ** hotel Schafbergspitze **, the ascent to the viewpoint of the mountain, that is, to the hotel, is quite an experience. It is also at the ** Rigi Kulm Hotel **, in Switzerland, where a train takes you to the top of the Rigi mountain from where you feel like the king of the world observing the Alps above a sea of clouds. Total experiences from the roof of the world.
Grand Budapest Hotel and Hotel Schafbergspitze
THE SPA
Oh! hot showers with hoses, oh! the lukewarm baths, oh my! the tesserae and the tiles chipped and on the verge of death... The Grand Budapest Hotel it is shown in all its splendor but also in its maximum decadence in the film. Their 'bathhouse ', is made up of a central pool lined with individual bathtubs and rooms where you can hose down. In the very Budapest we find the delicate hotel Corinthia, whose Royal Spa it is certainly similar, with its high ceilings, its semicircular arches and, of course, the large pool of intense blue.
Grand Budapest Hotel and Corinthia
THE KEY, YOU'RE WELCOME
Who imitates whom? Sean MacPherson he is the hotelier who owns two grand lodgings in New York, The Bowery and The Jane. MacPherson admitted to Condé Nast Traveler USA (and the Huffington Post) that Trip to Darjeeling or the Tenenbaums inspired him not only for the decoration of his rooms but also for the choice of the building of The Jane Hotel (similar to the family home of the Tenenbaums ) . A madness that, observing The Jane Hotel reception , it may have stuck to Wes Anderson himself from the New York hotelier.
Grand Budapest Hotel and The Jane Hotel
QUEEN FACADES
Not another thing, but imposing and grandiloquent, the facade of The Grand Budapest Hotel is for a while. At the moment of observing it, we have passed countless names that could be inspiration for a hotel like this one by Wes Anderson, among them, Suvretta Hotel in St. Moritz or the Lausanne Palace, with its dozens of small balconies surrounded by thousands of details in each stone. . But there is one who beats them by a landslide because it adds those pastel colors that Mr. Anderson has us so used to. We are talking about the Prince of Wales Hotel in Alberta, Canada, located on an arm that rests on Lake Waterton. The natural spectacle is impressive and its façade, _budapestian_a to the max.
Grand Budapest Hotel and Prince of Wales
GRANDILOQUENT INTERIORS
Inside the Grand Budapest Hotel (which was actually shot in an old factory in Gorlitz , where a quasi-real size model of the hotel was made) one should feel small, tiny, before some impressively high ceilings and stairs that seem to lead to infinity . Among the great grandiloquencies (and we do not feel the redundancy) we could name that of the wonderful dome of the Westin Palace in Madrid or the impressive red walls, with a quasi-ecclesiastical touch, of the St. Pancras Reinassance in London. But without a doubt, an interior worthy of wearing the veneer of the Grand Budapest Hotel is the Ciragan Palace Kempinski in Istanbul.
Grand Budapest Hotel and Ciragan Palace