page_title: Hotel Bristol
section_title: Associations
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel Bristol / Associations
caption_attribution_description: English: Le Bristol Hotel in Beirut
context_page_description: The Hotel Bristol is the name of more than 200 hotels around the world. They range from grand European hotels, such as Hôtel Le Bristol Paris and the Bristol in Warsaw or Vienna to budget hotels, such as the SRO Bristol in San Francisco. They are not a chain, except in Brazil, where Bristol Hoteis & Resorts has around a dozen hotels throughout the country with the Bristol name.
context_section_description: Valerie Solanas, author of the S.C.U.M. Manifesto and attempted assassin of Andy Warhol, died in room 202 of the Hotel Bristol, 56 Mason Street, San Francisco. Richard Ramirez (a.k.a. Night Stalker) stayed in the same hotel, room 315, during his killing spree in 1985. The comedy film What's Up, Doc? (1972), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, features the Hilton Hotel as the "Hotel Bristol, San Francisco". The famous Black Cat Bar was originally in the basement of this building, then named the Athens Hotel, from 1906 to 1921. The Black Cat was later located in North Beach at 710 Montgomery Street in San Francisco.
  The Hotel Bristol, Oslo, was where, in November 1939, Hans Ferdinand Mayer "a German scientist, who is on your side" wrote the Oslo Report, a major leak of technical information passed to the British.
  Hotel Bristol, Warsaw opened in 1901 on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Thoroughly refurbished in its original style in the 1990s it was reopened by Margaret Thatcher, an event that forms the final chapter of her memoirs.
  Hotel Bristol (Berlin) opened in 1891 and was destroyed in an air raid in 1943. It held the first international IAA (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) motor show, in 1897, and was involved in the Krupp scandal, detailed in William Manchester's book on the arms manufacturer.
  The five-star luxury hotel in Vienna opposite the Vienna State Opera House is one of the most exclusive hotels in Austria and was restructured by the hotelier Georg Hochfilzer. It has hosted many historical figures including Teddy Roosevelt. It was here that the Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson sojourned at the height of their affair, in 1936; the most sumptuous suite is named after him. In 1938, the hotel underwent Aryanization when its Jewish owner Samuel Schallinger was forced to sell his shares before being deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp where he died.
  Leon Trotsky was accused of meeting with others to plot against Stalin in the Hotel Bristol (Copenhagen). An alibi was established in 1937 when the Dewey Commission showed that the hotel had burned down in 1917.
  The Le Bristol Hotel (Beirut), is one of the most exclusive hotels in Beirut where the Lebanese Independence from the occupying Syrian military force was prepared in 2005.
  Hotel Bristol, Belgrade, opened in 1912; the architectural characteristics of the building are highly regarded: it is qualified as an anthological example of the modern architecture in Belgrade and the pinnacle of the Secession architecture in the city. It was declared a cultural monument in 1987.
caption: Bristol Hotel in Beirut
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