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The Astoria - St Petersburg

Situated next to the landmark St Isaac’s Cathedral, the Astoria is an elegant five-star hotel that has become synonymous with the Rocco Forte Hotels brand. It has been beautifully restored to provide guests with the best luxury hotel in the city.

 

It has a fashionable new Russian restaurant Davidov’s-which already has an excellent reputation and offers an array of exciting Russian cuisine and a vodka and caviar bar if you prefer a light snack.

 

Fact File

Type: Luxury five-star hotel

Number of covers: up to 191

Number of suites: 41

Owners: Rocco Forte Hotels Ltd

 

Criteria

To design and supply and install three new bars in the hotel “The Borsalina”, “The Davidov” and “The Rotunda”.

The design of the bars was very interesting as it was in keeping with the overall grandness of this very historic hotel, but at the same time fitted with ‘ top end’ and modern stainless steel equipment. Quality was paramount and we did this with the help of the hotel manager and RF Hotels and project manager Ned Campion.

The delivery of the equipment and all of the building and decoration works was undertaken by Waterside International. Their contract manager Doug Willsher had the very important task of not only ensuring that all of the engineers including Hansens could complete the works on time and to RF hotels specific 5 star standards, but of also making sure that everything got there via Moscow (without anything going missing)!

Result

The job was completed on time thankfully and a big hand goes out to Ned and Doug who got to know and understand the Russian way of doing things very quickly!

Addendum

Hansens have now been commissioned to design a new banqueting kitchen and pre-function bars at the St Davids, Cardiff and the Kennedyalle new build hotel project in Frankfurt, Germany for Rocco Forte Hotels Ltd.

Contract file

Type of contract: Fabrication, install and design
Size: £100,000
Installation time: 3 weeks
Kit installed: all specialist hand built Hansens refrigeration and bar fabrication to Russian specification
Special features: We designed and built three bars within the hotel over a one-year period