Christmas time is here!

Father Christmas came to visit us at the Grand Hotel Toplice. He brought with him a group of wonderful young singers that sang Christmas songs to our guests.
Happy Christmas to you all!!!!

Japanese garden has a new story

My employees never cease to amaze me with their ideas. Here is a fine example:

Robert, our gardener, finished reading a book about Japanese gardens, kindly provided by our guest Mr. K. (Thank you Sasha!)

Robert decided to renovate the garden by placing the stones in a new position. This position was inspired by a 19th Century Slovene poem »The Baptism at The Savica«, where each stone represents one of the main characters from the poem thus creating an interesting story with the Japanese garden.

Pictures of Robert in the process of creation are attached.

Italian

Many of our guests come from Italy. In fact, during this New Year's hollidays , Grand Hotel Toplice will host mostly Italian guests. This is one of the reasons why I decided to brush up my knowledge of Italian language and started to take leasons.

Below text in Italian is for Monica Z., a regular guest of Grand Hotel Toplice:

" Cara Monica! I risotti erano buonissimi! Grazie mille!

L'albergo è gia addobbato per le feste di Natale e Capodanno.

Tanti saluti, Petra."

Gala dinner for the guests of Bled

Every November all the hotels in Bled invite their regular guests to a gala dinner. This year’s dinner took place in Grand Hotel Toplice. It was a lovely evening, filled with music, great food and exceptional service. More then 100 people attended the dinner including 14 regular guests of Grand Hotel Toplice: Mrs. and. Mr. Hathaway, Mrs. Scarpi, Mr. Grensted, Mr. Hibbs, Mr. Kobayashi, Mrs. and Mr. Spinelli, Mrs. Zancanaro and Mr. Roncon, Mrs. and Mr. Aranicki and Mrs. and Mr. Blumenow. Photos of them are included as well as photos of kitchen and service staff.

New uniforms

Staff of Grand Hotel Toplice has new uniforms. The designer was our very own front office manager Mrs. Dagmar Bernard and the manufacturer is a Slovene company Kroj from Škofja Loka. Uniforms were presented to the guests for the first time during gala dinner. Here is a photo of our models with fashion designer Dagmar. The style is modernization of the 1930’s when the hotel was built. The design and colors are very elegant and I am extremely happy the way it all turned out. Don’t they all look very handsome?

Autumn red

The leaves of Virginia creeper that cover Grand Hotel Toplice have got such a wonderful red color I just had to take a photo of them. I use this opportunity to present to you also our beautiful new white gates to the hotel terrace.

The "Golden Lion" Golf Tournament

Since 1977, Grand Hotel Toplice has been hosting its own golf tournament called »The Golden Lion«. This year's tournament which took place on October 26th 2008 at Bled Golf Course was won by Mr. Jernej Pavlič and his name will be added to 31 names of winners alread written on a plaque on the trophy. Congratulations Mr. Pavlič!