InterContinental to Open Multiple Luxury and Lifestyle Hotels in Coming Months Including Verno House Budapest

Budapest’s Országház, the Parliament building, located in Pest, photographed from Buda across Duna, the Danube River
InterContinental Hotels and Resorts announced plans for the opening of multiple new hotels in the coming months, including properties in Budapest, Kyoto, Grenada, India, and Grand Cayman.
Located near Szabadság tér, or Liberty Square, the Verno House Budapest is located in a building that formerly was a tenement, although it later became a hotel that brought together artists, politicians, musicians, scientists, and philanthropists at a time when the three cities of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were being united.
Verno House is also part of IHG’s Vignette Collection, which is the chain’s brand in what is generally termed the luxury and lifestyle segment., essentially for upscale properties that have little in common one another.
“Our new Vignette Collection gives IHG a compelling way to welcome world-class independent hotels into our brand family,” said Keith Barr, IHG’s CEO, in a statement at the time the collection launched.
The hotel, which is near the Duna, the Danube River, and the city’s majestic Országház, which means House of the Nation but is more commonly referred to as Parliament in English. Its rooms feature a décor that pairs a rich shade of deep dark green with saddle and grey. Rooms feature floor-to-ceiling windows, and a mixture of burnt orange and slightly off-white furnishings.
Verno House’s restaurant, Flava, offers a variety of cuisines inspired by North African, Latin American, and Middle Eastern cuisines using what it terms “globalist” ingredients. [Editor’s note: The term “globalist” has an unseemly past as an anti-Semitic slur.]
Other new properties includes the Six Senses Kyoto, the Six Senses La Sagesse in Grenada, the voco Jim Corbett, and the Hotel Indigo Grand Cayman.
IHG describes its new voco brand as offering hotels that are characterized by their “individual charm, providing guests with something different while also ensuring the reliability of a global brand.”  Six Senses, the company said, offers “exceptional experiences that help … [guests] reconnect mentally, physically and spiritually.”
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