InterContinental AthéNéE Palace Bucharest by IHG
Grand early-twentieth-century hotel whose bar was a wartime haunt of spies and correspondents.
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This guide to the InterContinental Athénée Palace in Bucharest heads down the marble corridor to the English Bar, opened in nineteen fourteen as the American Bar. It follows the oilmen, Nazi officers and Allied agents who drank here during the Second World War, and the Newsweek correspondent Countess Waldeck, who checked in on the day Paris fell. Best heard on a velvet seat at the bar itself.
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