 At first, the hotel was intended to have 1,000 rooms and the building, only 11 floors and the cost would have been around €30 million.But with the demolition of the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, Russia, which was the second-largest hotel in Europe at the time with 3,200 rooms, the developers saw an opportunity to construct an even larger hotel than initially envisioned and thus the hotel was upgraded to 1,459 rooms and the building heightened to 15 floors.The construction of the Rin Grand Hotel started in 2006 on a plot of land located in Southern Bucharest in the Vitan area where no major hotel existed at the time.