The Augustine (www.theaugustine.com) is honoured to have been named one of the Top 100 Hotels in the World in Travel + Leisure's 2013 World's Best Awards (coming in at joint-52nd place), as well as being the fifth-placed "Top Large City Hotel in Europe", making it the best hotel in Prague.  The awards were announced on 2 July and are online at travelandleisure.com; in addition, they will appear in the August 2013 issue of the magazine.

Every year, the readers of Travel + Leisure, the top US travel magazine that is produced by American Express Publishing Corporation, rate their favorite hotels, resorts, spas, airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, rental-car agencies and more in its annual World's Best Awards survey.  Any hotel making the Top 100 Hotels list is considered to have served the T+L readers particularly well as they travel the globe.

 

The Travel+Leisure review of The Augustine highlighted the property's "authentic sense of place", adding that "Few European hotels can match the Augustine, with its still-active ecclesiastical libraries and 18th-century frescoes, for pedigree".

 

The Augustine, a member of The Leading Hotels of the World, is particularly pleased to receive this award at a time when it has recently re-launched itself as an independent hotel, offering another level of luxury to discerning visitors to the Czech capital.

 

Tom Smit of Waldeck Capital, the owner and now operator of The Augustine, said "We are delighted to have been recognised by the readers of Travel+Leisure, because we strive to provide a world-class service, attending to guests with pride, a warm caring approach, and, of course, discretion, so that great memories and magical experiences are a given, not just a happy coincidence. The fact that the readers, our cherished guests, have chosen to vote for us, underlines the fact that our approach is greatly appreciated".

 

The T+L acknowledgement joins a long list of illustrious industry awards that The Augustine has collected since it opened in 2009; the principal awards can be found listed below.

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Facts & Figures

Opening date:                        2009

 

History:                       Created from a complex of six historic buildings, including a former brewery and the 13th-century Augustinian St Thomas's Monastery, after which the hotel is named.

 

Sleeping:                    101-rooms, 85 elegantly appointed bedrooms (with an average size of 40 sq m) and 16 suites, all of which enjoy stunning views over either Prague Castle, the courtyards, the monastery chapel or the city's main cathedral on the nearby hill. The suites include the impressive 150 sq m Charles Presidential Suite and The Tower Suite built over three floors, with panoramic views across the rooftops of Prague.

 

Dining & drinking:     Elegantes restaurant
1887 bar
St.Thomas's Brewery bar

 

Relaxing:                    The Augustine Spa

 

 

 

 

Meetings & events:   The Augustine's main 196 sq m function room is housed in a magnificent double-height vaulted hall; the hotel also has four private meeting rooms suitable for intimate events, dinners and meetings, as well as a purpose-designed meeting facility with business centre.

 

Awards

Since opening, The Augustine has won recognition from various sources, including:

-      Wallpaper* nominated The Augustine for one of its four Best Design Awards 2011

-      Grand Restaurant Guide 2011 voted The Monastery Restaurant (now Elegantes) one of the Top Ten restaurants in Prague

-      Wallpaper* included The Augustine in its list of Best Business hotels 2010

-      Condé Nast Traveller included the hotel in its Gold List 2010

-      Elite Traveller Magazine included The Tower Suite in its Top 100 Suites in 2010

-      MIPIM shortlisted The Augustine in the Hotels & Tourism Resorts category 2010

-      EURO Magazine included it in its Top 50 restaurants in Prague

-      CIJ Awards named The Augustine Best Hotel Development in 2009

-      The Sleep Awards gave Tom's Bar (now 1887 Bar) the Interior Design of the Year award in 2009

-      European Hospitality Awards have its Hotel Interior Design of the Year award to The Augustine in 2010

-      Virtuoso Hotels & Resorts and Virtuoso Life magazine nominated The Augustine in the Best of the Best Awards in the category of Hotel of the Year

-      Barlife Awards voted Tom's Bar (now 1887 Bar) one of the Top 3 Bars in Prague in October 2010

-      Best of Realty gave 1st place to The Augustine in 2009

-      The Hotel Forum placed The Augustine second in the Hotel Property Awards at 2009

-      European Commercial Property Awards named The Augustine the Best Hotel in the Czech Republic in 2009.

For more information, please contact:

Sue Heady
Heady Communications

T: 01608 651 692 / 078 5595 0705
E: sue@headycommunications.com