Hilton Munich Airport | |
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Former names | Kempinski Hotel Airport München |
General information | |
Type | Hotel |
Address | Terminalstrasse Mitte 20, 85356, Munich, Germany |
Coordinates | 48°21′19.57″N11°47′19.11″E / 48.3554361°N 11.7886417°E |
Opened | 17 May 1994 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 551 |
The Hilton Munich Airport (until 31 December 2014 Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich) [1] is a hotel located on the grounds of Munich Airport, between Terminals 1 and 2, near the Munich Airport Center business facility.
Following a construction period of 20 months, the hotel opened on 17 May 1994, two years after the airport went into operation. The architect of the hotel is German-born Helmut Jahn of the Chicago-based Murphy/Jahn Architectural Group. The hotel's grand plaza is a 24- metre high and 1400 square metre large atrium hall with a glass roof and decorated with palm trees (18 metres tall) from Florida. Green cubes and grown-over pyramid shapes continue the outer landscape surrounding the airport.
On 1 January 2015, the hotel was taken over by Hilton Hotels & Resorts. In March 2017, a 7-story extension building was completed adding 162 rooms spanning over 6 floors and new office spaces on the first floor. The existing office facilities on the ground floor of the old building were converted into conference facilities. [2]
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