Crowne Plaza

Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as an upscale sister brand to Holiday Inn, with its first hotel opening that year in Rockville, Maryland. In 1988 Bass PLC, the forerunner of today's IHG Hotels & Resorts, acquired the Holiday Corporation, and the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels in 1994.

Built for business, leisure and everything between

Crowne Plaza caters to business, leisure and blended travel, with hotels typically located in city centres, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports. The brand opened its first European property in Madeira, Portugal, in 1999.

Part of IHG Hotels & Resorts

Crowne Plaza today operates in nearly a hundred countries with more than four hundred hotels and some 110,000 rooms, as part of the wider IHG Hotels & Resorts family alongside InterContinental and Holiday Inn.