Awards

Global Spa of the Year 2023, Luxury Country Hotel of the Year 2023

The outstanding values of Spirit Hotel Thermal Spa *****superior in Sárvár have been recognized with several awards in the categories of World Luxury Hotel Awards and World Luxury Spa Awards at the 17th World Luxury Awards Gala hosted in the Greek capital. With its uniquely elegant environment and exceptional services the hotel has earned not less than seven prestigious professional recog0nitions, including Global Spa of the Year 2023 award in the most prestigious spa category, and the Luxury Country Hotel of the Year award in the hotel category.

With global benchmark awards, the World Luxury Awards are the most prestigious in the luxury hotel industry. Premium hotels may enter or be nominated in more than 100 categories, and the winners are selected each year by the votes of hundreds of thousands of guests and industry professionals at the international competition. These awards not only strengthen trust and loyalty of guests, but also have encouraged hotels to continue their growing and development for decades.

Superbrands 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2023

In 2013, Spirit Hotel became the first countryside wellness hotel to gain Superbrands classification. Moreover, Spirit won this again in the two following years. The opinion of the consumers plays an important role in awarding the world-famous prize because the assessment of independent professional volunteers is supplemented with a representative brand awareness and popularity survey.

Best of Budapest & Hungary award 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2019 | 2022

The Spirit Hotel managed to win the Best of Budapest & Hungary award for the best countryside wellness hotel on more occasions. The Budapest Week Publishing publisher has conducted a yearly survey among its readers and business partners for 25 years to find the best candidate in the Hungarian catering industry, hotel sector and other services sphere. The winners of the over sixty categories are selected based on the votes and the publisher’s strict review.

Fit Reisen | Fit Premium Hotel 2022

The customers of Fit Reisen, one of the largest German travel organisations, honoured Spirit Hotel with the Fit Premium Hotel title in Thermal Spa category.

Qualified Partner 2021

In the Hungarian Tourism Agency’s Preferred and Educational Partner competition, Spirit Hotel won the 2021 Qualified Partner title. The aim of the program is to unify the conditions of cooperation with the agency in the B2B segment of tourism, as well as to support the market activity, business generation and market building of the Qualified Partners. It also provides a gap-filling qualification process for industry players.

TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020

TripAdvisor, one of the world’s most significant and influential international tourist information portals rewarded Spirit Hotel in 2020 for the sixth time. Based on millions of tourist opinions, Spirit Hotel received the Travelers’ Choice title. This is only achieved by 1% of the hotels on the website.

Fit Reisen | Premium Quality Hotel 2020

The customers of Fit Reisen, one of the largest German travel organisations, honoured Spirit Hotel with the Premium Quality Hotel title in Thermal Spa category. They rated the services and the health commitment of the hotel.

Innovative Spa Hotel award 2019

Based on the European Spas Association’s (ESPA) decision, Spirit Hotel became the most innovative spa hotel. The hotel received the award for the combination of the modern design and the natural utilisation methods of the special, unfiltered thermal water (in medical treatments, pools). The prestigious professional jury emphasized the qualification and number of doctors as well as the mySPIRIT health programme.

TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019

It was the sixth time that Spirit Hotel received the Certificate of Excellence award. The travel portal collects millions of tourist opinions and gives this prize on the basis of evaluations about the given facility from the last 12 months. The title helps travellers find the places offering quality services according to the shared experiences and evaluations. TripAdvisor is visited by approximately 350 million users per month and its mobile application has been downloaded over 290 million times.

Value & Quality Grand Prize 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018

From 2014 to 2018, Spirit Hotel was given the Value & Quality Grand Prize that highlights the best quality Hungarian products and services. The jury chose the hotel unanimously in the tourism category, thanks to its wide array of services, the continuous improvements and hospitality. The award is of special value because only a few tourism-related companies succeeded to win.

HolidayCheck 2018

Spirit Hotel got 5.5 points out of 6 from the guests, which qualified it for the HolidayCheck’s recommendation. The largest German assessment website has evaluated over 900,000 hotels, 150,000 sights and 1,700 ships.

Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards 2015 | 2016 | 2017

Spirit Hotel gained the “Signum Virtutis” prize in the Hotel&Resorts and the Spa categories. The prestigious Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards evaluate the best luxury brands and services of the world’s catering industry as well as the hotel, travel and services sectors. With this prize, the hotel secured a long-lasting place in the exclusive club of the world’s special premium brands and services.

Hungarian hotel of the year 2016

The Hungarian Hotel & Restaurant Association chose Spirit Hotel as the best Hungarian five-star hotel of 2016. The professional award can be given to Hungarian hotels who can proud themselves on having had excellent market performance in the previous year and creating outstanding values regarding innovation, service quality, human policy and corporate social responsibility in their category.

Gault & Millau 2013 | 2014 | 2015

The Gault&Millau book is considered one of the world’s most influential guides. It evaluates Hungarian hotels using especially strict criteria, and only builds on the personal experience of its anonymous testers. Spirit Hotel won the wellness hotel category based on these evaluations. The Gault&Millau professionals included Spirit in the category of hotels meeting the highest luxury standards.

European Health and Spa Awards 2015: mySPIRIT skincare

The independent jury of international professionals applied a strict system for scoring the brands that competed for the Best Spa Product – Cosmetic Innovation title. In 2015, the mySPIRIT skincare biocosmetic products became the year’s best cosmetic innovations. Beside the aspects of health, creativity, design and technology, the jury also assessed the factors of sustainability, environment and social responsibility.

Golden Sun award (Aranynap-díj) 2008 | 2014

Spirit Hotel became Hungary’s best five-star conference hotel on two occasions. The most important decision criteria are the excellent facility and equipment, the permanent high performance and reliability of the hotel as well as the hospitality and flexibility of the staff.

“Utazó” Magazine | Wellness hotel of the year 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Spirit Hotel won the first place three times at the “Utazó” Magazine vote nominating the Hungarian hotel of the year in four categories (business, conference, wellness and transit hotels). The distinguishing title has been given to the best hotel based on the opinion of significant professionals and the magazine readers.

Business Traveller | Business Excellence 2012

Spirit Hotel won the audience award of Business Excellence 2012 for the best countryside conference hotel. The Business Traveller Hungary magazine for business travellers announced 18 winners in 9 categories according to the professional jury’s and the readers’ votes.

Hungarian Tourism Quality Award 2011

The CEO of Spirit Hotel received the certificate and the Hungarian Tourism Quality Award sign during the official opening ceremony of the Travelling Exhibition (“Utazás Kiállítás”). The yearly award has been accredited by HOTREC, the professional union of hotel and catering associations in the EU member states. It is a truly prestigious acknowledgement: the prize winner Spirit Hotel also acquired the right to use the “2Q” sign attesting European criteria.

Best Hungarian Spa and Wellness Hotel 2011

The Spirit Hotel was given the best Hungarian spa and wellness hotel award. The decision was made by votes of the Spa & Relax Guide in Hungary 2011 editors which is prepared by the publisher of Budapest Business Journal. The hotel won due to its outstanding professional work and the services that are unique on the Hungarian tourism market.

The Executive Spa Manager of Spirit Hotel among the bests in Europe, 2011

Tünde Torhosi, who is a master beautician, spa and wellness manager, the spa supervisor of Spirit Hotel as well as the leader and wellness consultant of NaturMed Hotel Carbona Beauty Center, gained the Blue Diamond prize. Upon handing over the prize during the award ceremony at Hotel Ritz, Paris Tünde Torhosi’s motto was emphasized: “a smile coming from the heart is the shortest way between two people”. The prize was founded by Forum Hotel & Spa, an association of health tourism professionals, and it rewards the continuous, high quality performance of Europe’s best spa managers. Tünde Torhosi was the first Hungarian spa professional to receive such a prestigious award.

European Health and Spa Awards | Best Destination Spa 2010

The international jury gave the Best Destination Spa award to Spirit Hotel in 2010. It was the first time that a Hungarian candidate won such a prestigious award at an international competition.

Website of the year 2010

The 13-member professional jury of the Hungarian Marketing Association chose the website of the Spirit Hotel from 18 candidates in tourism category. The jury assessed the design, impression, innovation, navigation and the relevance of the content for the category. Upon handing over the prize, the jury emphasized the creativity and professionalism of the Spirit Hotel website.

Film awards for the introductory video of Spirit Hotel, 2010

The introductory video of Spirit Hotel won the first prize in Veliki Novgorod, Russia at the Kitovras international tourism festival that also hosts the event of the International Tourism Film Academy. The hotel received the first prize in Health and Ecotourism category at the prestigious event.
The introductory video of Spirit Hotel was also rewarded at the international tourism film festival of Brazil. At the first Tourfilm Brazil competition, the 11-member international professional jury gave the second prize to the spot of Spirit Hotel in the hotel category.
The introductory video of Spirit Hotel was also awarded at the German tourism film festival. The promo film of Spirit Hotel won the third prize in hotel category at The Golden City Gate (Das Goldene Stadttor) professional competition.

Wienerin | Spa Guide award 2010

Wienerin, one of the most famous European lifestyle magazines, included the hotel in the 25 most beautiful new European spa oases list. Spirit Hotel was the only Hungarian hotel to receive the Spa Guide award of Wienerin.