Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg is a hotel in

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, Germany operated by

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under the

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brand. At 108 meters, it is the tallest hotel in

and is on the

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and the

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. It has 32 floors and 556 rooms. The hotel is in the Planten un Blomen park and is next to the

Congress Center Hamburg Congress Center Hamburg (CCH; formerly Congress Centrum Hamburg) is a convention center in Hamburg, Germany, located right next to Planten un Blomen, near the Hamburg Dammtor station. It opened on 14 April 1973 as the first of its kind in Germany ...

and near Hamburg Dammtor station. The hotel also has 2,122 m² of meeting space in 12 conference rooms on a separate floor.

History

The hotel was designed by architects Jost Schramm and Gert Pempelfort. Construction began in 1970 and the hotel opened in April 1973 as Loews Hamburg Plaza. It was renamed Hamburg Plaza Hotel when it was managed by Canadian Pacific Hotels. In 1988, it was acquired by SAS Group and renamed the SAS Hamburg Plaza Hotel. When SAS Group's SAS International Hotels created a co-brand with

, it was renamed Radisson SAS Hamburg Hotel. In October 2009, a €48 million renovation of the hotel was completed. In November 2009, a European hotel fund managed by

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acquired the hotel for €155 million. The hotel was renamed the Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg in 2009. In November 2015, Azure acquired the hotel. In March 2017, Wenaasgruppen acquired the hotel.

In popular culture

The final episodes of the

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television series Timm Thaler were filmed at the hotel.

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