Hotel Silvanus in Visegrád, which burned down last year, is returning to the tourism market with a new outdoor showpiece pool jutting out from the hillside, offering a panorama unique in Europe.
Restoration and development are taking place simultaneously at Hotel Silvanus, which has been closed since March 2024 after suffering fire damage worth several billion forints, and which is adding an exceptional attraction after 13 months of enforced closure.
Róbert Pintér, operations director of Hotel Silvanus in Visegrád, told Világgazdaság that an outdoor wellness showpiece pool, projecting from the Visegrád hillside, built with a bespoke structural and construction solution developed in cooperation, and offering a panorama unique in Europe, is being built next to Hotel Silvanus.
The hotel's owners decided to use the fire-damage repairs – that is, the construction period – to carry out developments that had been planned earlier. As a result, in April 2025 the hotel will reopen not only reborn but with doubled outdoor and expanded indoor wellness capacity.
According to calculations, the Visegrád hotel's wellness area will be able to accommodate 40 per cent more guests; its new attraction, the outdoor pool built around an exceptionally beautiful view, is expected to be completed by May at a cost of around HUF 200 million.
During the renovation, the indoor jacuzzi will be replaced and a new sauna built, so a special “banya” sauna combined with steam will also await returning and new guests in Visegrád.
In addition to the wellness development, the plans also include expanding the extremely successful “Sunday Brunch”, launched more than 10 years ago.
Damage worth several billion forints had to be repaired at the hotel, which will definitely be welcoming guests in a few weeks' time – from 1 April, to be precise – and is working to a fixed deadline, not least because of confirmed bookings. According to Róbert Pintér, planning was often overridden by reality: the feasibility and professional complexity of the task at hand.
Source: Turizmus.com