Last weekend we stayed at the super luxurious & stylish Le Meridien Vienna (watch out for our review!) for a long weekend break to explore Vienna’s winter markets and loved every minute of our time at the hotel and Vienna. At The Luxury Editor we love to find out more about the people behind the brand so in this posting we interview Gabriela Benz General Manager of Le Meridien Vienna who is responsible for keeping the hotel running like clockwork and has been the driving force in the new multi million Euro renovation.
Le Meridien Vienna has recently undergone a stylish refurbishment. Please tell us more about this.
One year ago we rebuilt the complete ground floor, the ballroom and 8 meeting rooms. Meanwhile we also renovated 50% of our rooms in state-of-the-art colors and decor, starting January 2018 we start to revitalize the second half of our 294 rooms. In spring 2018 the Le Méridien Vienna will completely sparkle in a new look and feel.
Our biggest challenge was that we constructed all changes while running ongoing operations. The ground floor was renovated within 2 months. And the changes were huge. For example: Where you find the “YOU” today there was the main entrance and lobby before. On the opening, many people told me that we have created a completely new hotel.
Also: when we finished the construction we got handed over the building at midnight. On on the next day there was a big wedding with 100 guests to take place.

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