Kempinski Palace Hotel (originally "Hotel Palace") is a five-star deluxe hotel in Portorož, Slovenia at Adriatic coast. It is the most prestigious hotel in the country. Slovenian owner, coastal company Istrabenz Hoteli Portorož d.o.o., signed a contract with a german hotel chain Kempinski Hotels S.A. to run and manage this hotel for at least 20 years. When they renovated the hotel the front side was kept for historical reasons and everything else was demolished. It was reopened in 2008. Renovation cost was about 70 million euros.
Hotel Palace, as it was the called, was built by Austrian architect Johannes Eustacchio and opened in 1910 at the time of Austro-Hungarian Empire. At that time this was a tourist object of the highest quality. Portorož was, together with Venetian Lido, Grado and croatian Opatija, categorized as one of the most important coast resorts and spas in Europe. After the opening 1910 Hotel Palace was the most beautiful and largest hotel at the Adriatic coast, together with Excelsior Hotel in Venice. At the end of 1983, it was proclaimed as cultural heritage, and park in front of hotel was called a heritage of designed nature. It was closed in 1990 and reopened in 2008. Central place of the hotel is Kristalna dvorana, or Crystal Hall.
