The Grand Budapest Hotel was inspired by Karlovy Vary's Grandhotel Pupp, the Gellert in Budapest and a handful of other Mitteleuropean grand dames. None of them are the literal hotel from the film, but every one captures the symmetrical, pastel, bell-hop-perfect aesthetic Wes Anderson built the film around. Here are ten real hotels you can book that look like they belong in his next film.
Anderson works by resemblance, so none of these hotels can be visited as a film set. Three other guides on this site deal with hotels that actually appear on screen, and they are the better read if that is what you are after. The Overlook in The Shining was assembled from two separate buildings, only one of which takes guests, and I set out which is which in the Shining hotel, Stanley and Timberline. The Beverly Wilshire has been selling a 1990 film for thirty six years, and I price the rooms it actually used in the Pretty Woman hotel guide. And the retreat behind Nine Perfect Strangers is a working resort with published rates, covered in the Nine Perfect Strangers resort in real life.
