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Digging out the new spa in 2012 turned up glass bottles with papers rolled inside them. One of the papers was a recipe for a relaxing bath, made up by Franziska Pupp, wife of the confectioner whose name is over the door. The hotel tells the story of the bottles and sells the bath.
The building appears on two film lists, and they agree on two titles. The hotel keeps a page of its own with ten films on it, from a children's series in 1978 to an American drama series in 2009, and calls them some of the films shot at the Pupp. The Czech state film office, which keeps a card on every production that shoots in the country, names the hotel in four. Casino Royale and Last Holiday are on both lists. Everything the hotel claims before 2006 is invisible to the office, whose filmography does not reach that far back; everything the office has recorded since 2009 is missing from the hotel's page, including a Norwegian horror film in 2020.
The Last Holiday card is the odd one in that filmography: where other productions list a dozen locations, its entire Czech shoot is given as Karlovy Vary, Grand Hotel Pupp. Two films came here in 2006: one turned the building into a Montenegrin casino hotel, and in the other a woman arrives to spend what she believes are her last weeks. The newest card, a series listed for 2026, gives its Karlovy Vary locations as this hotel, the Mill Colonnade and Nová Louka, the street between them. Casino Royale used the first two of those twenty years earlier.
Who built it is disputed. English and German reference works give the house to the Vienna firm of Fellner and Helmer. The hotel and the Czech article say the building of 1892 to 1894 is by Robert Přichoda and Josef Němeček, and that Fellner and Helmer supplied only the neo-baroque face it wears now, in 1905 to 1907.
The hotel's own history of the war years has the Pupp working as an officers' hospital in 1944, with the German army requisitioning five tons of its coffee for Luftwaffe pilots and submarine crews. The director, Heinrich Gerlach, had been called up and was serving as a medical officer in the next town along, running the hotel from there.