Hotel Europe in Sarajevo hosts conferences, banquets and weddings in nine indoor and outdoor spaces. The largest, a garden of 800 m², takes up to 600 guests standing and 400 at a banquet. The hotel has 174 bedrooms and stands at Vladislava Skarića 5, in the Baščaršija district.
Seminars and company events
The hotel describes its conference rooms as flexible in layout, with simultaneous interpretation equipment, audio and video systems, screens, a projector and a sound system. It states that the rooms can take up to 400 guests. The events team handles requests for conferences, trainings and incentive trips, and a request form lists each room by name.
For a plenary session the Restaurant hall is the largest indoor room: 263 m², theatre layout for 300. Conference Room 1 takes 150 in theatre layout, the Atrium 100 on 112 m², and Conference Room 2 another 100 on 90 m². Meeting Room 1 and the Mezzanine Meeting Room suit committees and breakouts of 60 to 70 people in theatre layout.
Weddings and receptions
Hotel Europe sells wedding packages that the team adapts to the couple, from a basic format to a themed one. The Garden, the Terrace on the first floor and the Viennese Cafe handle receptions and open-air celebrations, while the Restaurant hall and the Atrium take seated dinners.
Rooms and capacities
Garden: 800 m², banquet 400, reception 600. Viennese Cafe: 375 m², banquet 160, reception 400. Terrace: 345 m², banquet 200, reception 300. Restaurant: 263 m², theatre 300, classroom 100, U-shape 80, boardroom 60, banquet 80, reception 250. Atrium: 112 m², theatre 100, banquet 50. Conference Room 1: theatre 150, banquet 40, reception 150. Conference Room 2: 90 m², theatre 100, banquet 40. Meeting Room 1: 76 m², theatre 60. Mezzanine Meeting Room: theatre 70, banquet 30.
Accommodation
The hotel has 160 rooms and 14 suites, so most of a group can sleep on site. The spa has an indoor pool, a Turkish bath, saunas, massage rooms and a fitness area, which gives delegates a way to finish a long day.
Catering
Catering is handled by the hotel. Its venues include the Bečka Kafana restaurant, the Viennese Cafe and the Mozart patisserie, and the event rooms are served by the hotel's own teams. Menus for banquets and weddings are agreed with the events department.
History and setting
The hotel opened in 1882. The merchant Ješua Salom built it to a design by the architect Karel Pařík, in Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau styles. Under its courtyard lie the remains of the Tašlihan, a 15th-century Ottoman caravanserai that is a national monument. The guest list over the years includes heads of state and writers; the Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić often stayed in room 701.
Getting there
The hotel is in the Baščaršija quarter, the old center of Sarajevo, where Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian districts meet. Guests flying in arrive at Sarajevo International Airport. Contact addresses for events and group bookings are listed on the hotel's website.
