Hotel Property Award nominees 2025

25 hotels from nine countries have applied for the European “Hotel Property Award 2025

An interdisciplinary jury of experts has nominated ten hotels out of 25 applicants from nine European countries which has been presented at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof Munich on Wednesday, 8 October as part of the 196+ forum Munich Conference.

A strong field of applicants has once more come from Germany, whilst the remaining hotels are located in Austria, France, Iceland, Italy, Czech Republic, Croatia, Spain and Turkey.

This year’s competition was open to hotels in Europe that were newly built and opened between January 2024 and June 2025, or have been refurbished and repositioned during this period after having been completely closed. Up to ten nominees will be selected from among all the applications at the jury meeting which will be held at the beginning of September, and these will be presented at the 196+ forum Conference in Munich.

The interplay between the following criteria is vital to the evaluation of the applications that have been submitted, regardless of the category into which a particular hotel falls: architecture and design, integration into the project environment, sustainability and technical innovation, the originality of the concept, as well as cost-effectiveness.

The ten nominated hotels in alphabetical order:

A by Adina Vienna Danube (Austria, Vienna)
Bikini Island & Mountain Hotel Es Trenc (Spain, Colònia de Sant Jordi)
Chiemgauhof-Lakeside Retreat (Germany, Upper Bavaria)
CityHub Reykjavik (Iceland, Reykjavik)
Cocoon Theresienwiese (Germany, Munich)
eriro Alpine hide (Austria, Tyrol)
Hotel Dips & Drops (Austria, Salzburg)
Moxy Istanbul Taksim (Turkey, Istanbul)
Revier Mountain Lodge Saas-Fee (Switzerland, Saas-Fee / Valais)
WALD.WEIT Rheingau Hotel & Retreat (Germany, Kiedrich)

The jury of experts, consisting of 14 members in total, is made up of representatives from the fields of architecture, operations, development, financing, technical building equipment and design of hotel real estate, as well as representatives from the media and academia. The decisive factor in selecting the nominees is the interplay of the following criteria: