Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel

Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel
Location within Riga
General information
Location	Riga, Latvia
Address	24, Kuģu Street; Riga, LV-1048
Coordinates	56°56′38.17″N 24°5′39.25″E ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽
Opening	July 1995
Owner	Radisson Hotels
Technical details
Floor count	9
Other information
Number of rooms	354
Number of restaurants	3
Parking	Parking for up to 100 private vehicles and 5 buses
Website
radissonblu.com/hotel-riga

Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel is a 4+ star hotel in Riga, Latvia, and was the first hotel in the Baltic states to be managed by an international hotel brand after Latvia regained independence in 1991.

History

• 1 July 1995 - Soft Opening of the hotel.
• 1 October 1995 - Official Opening of the hotel with 361 guest-room, 10 conference rooms and Food & Beverage facilities available. The first General Manager of the hotel was Kurt Ritter.
• 9 March 1996 – Grand Opening party.
• July 1996 – opening of Regency Palace Casino.
• 2 September 1996 – introduction of airline check-in service for SAS and AirBaltic flights.
• March 1997 – Radisson President’s Award winner.
• 1 January 1997 – Business Class concept introduced.
• September – becomes the pilot hotel of “Reserved for You” program.
• 1 October 1998 – introduction of 100% Guest Satisfaction Guarantee across the chain.
• 1998 – Radisson President’s Award winner.
• 19 January 2000 – launch of a new Rezidor logo and company name, “Hotels Worldwide” being replaced with “Hotels & Resorts”.
• February 2000 – the name “Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel Riga” is shortened and changed to “Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel”.
• 9 March 2001 – opening of Baltic Meeting & Training Center – 3 additional conference rooms.
• 9 March 2001 – official opening of restaurant “Talavera”, which replaces “Grill Room”.
• 1 November 2001 – opening of “Vienna Café”.
• September 2002 – leasing contract signed with ‘’Olympic Casinos”.
• April 2003 – opening of the Las Vegas style casino.
• 2006 – launch of a new Rezidor logo and company name, “Hotels & Resorts” being replaced with “The Rezidor Hotel Group”.
• 2007 - Latvia’s Leading Business Hotel award.
• October 2009 – change of logo: Radisson SAS has changed to Radisson Blu.
• February 2010 – “Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel” has been awarded the international environmental eco-certification Green Key International.
• 2014 – Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel receives hotel.info top rated hotel award and booking.com award of excellence.
• February 2016 – the hotel has been awarded the internationally recognized Safehotels security certificate.

Culture

• In August 2015, the hotel became a film shooting area for the Latvian / Japanese movie “Magic Kimono” with Japanese actors Kaori Momoi and Issey Ogata.
• In the hotel's possession are two works of the Latvian contemporary artist Miervaldis Polis: paintings "LEONARDO DA VINCI GIOCONDA" and "REMBRANDT". In May 2016, these two artworks were given to the Latvian National Museum of Art for display at the Miervaldis Polis exhibition "Illusion as the Reality" in honour the official opening of the main building of the museum.

References

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