The Westin Zagreb is an upscale 349-room hotel in central Zagreb, Croatia. It is one of the largest hotels in Zagreb and is among the tallest buildings in Croatia. The Westin Zagreb is one of 19 Westin branded hotels in Europe and the only Westin in Croatia.[2]
History
The hotel building was built in 1975 and opened as InterContinental Zagreb, when the InterContinental Hotels chain moved from the Hotel Esplanade Inter-Continental (now Esplanade Zagreb Hotel) into a new building. The 17-storey building was the first hotel in Croatia purpose-built for an international hotel chain.[3] The InterContinental chain left during the 1990s, when the hotel was taken over by entrepreneur Ivica Todorić. He changed the name to Opera, after the name of the restaurant that was then located on the last floor of the hotel.[4] In 2002, the hotel was taken over by the hospitality-touristic company HUP Zagreb, and the hotel opened as The Westin Zagreb. Renovations costing 10 million Euro took place in 2013.[5]