The International Butler Institute has a clear ambition: to train the finest butlers in the world – not only for elite private service but also for the most prestigious hotels and luxury resorts worldwide.
Our five-week Elite Grand Hotel Butler Training Course covers all the skills required to deliver an exceptional level of service within luxury hospitality environments, helping prestigious properties elevate their guest experience to seven-star standards.
But the program goes far beyond practical techniques alone.
It provides a technical preparation of unmatched depth, intensity, duration, and rigor, while simultaneously cultivating the essential qualities of emotional intelligence, discretion, leadership, and refined service presence.
As a result, this exclusive training offers the most comprehensive Hotel Butler trainings available in the world, equipping participants with the technical expertise and personal confidence required to perform at the highest level truly from day one.
In short, it produces the kind of Hotel Butler sought after by the world’s most iconic hotels and resorts.
Exclusive Annual Offering
To preserve an uncompromising standard of excellence, our Grand Hotel Butler Program is offered only once a year. This exclusivity enables us to devote our full attention, expertise, and resources to one carefully selected cohort only, ensuring a highly refined learning experience of the highest quality, free from the dilution and standardization of Butler mass training.
Very Small Class Sizes
Each session is limited to a maximum of 10 participants.
This allows us to provide a far more personalized, attentive, and immersive training experience, while also ensuring meaningful individual guidance and genuine follow-up for future placement opportunities.
Extended Duration for True Mastery
At five weeks, this is the longest and most in-depth hotel butler training programs in the world. Its extended duration allows participants to develop not only a solid understanding of the profession, but also the practical confidence, discipline, standards, and refinement required to perform at a truly world-class level.
Exceptional Program Content
Our Grand Hotel Butler Program offers the most comprehensive and detailed available globally in the field of luxury hotel butler service. Every aspect of the Hotel Butler profession is explored in exceptional depth, with absolutely no omissions, ensuring a complete and uncompromising preparation for the highest standards of service.
Exceptionally strong Practical Training Focus
The program is built around a highly practical methodology, with 90% of the training dedicated to hands-on activities, live exercises, and real-world simulations. Under expert guidance, participants are trained to develop the reflexes, discipline, service mindset, and operational excellence required in luxury hospitality, so they are ready to perform from day one after completion of the program.
Exclusive Intake: Only one intake per year – in March
Participants: Maximum 15 per session
Training Duration: 5 weeks – 24 training days, structured across four 6-day weeks
Training Format: 90% practical training / 10% theory
Location: Rome, Italy
Program Fee: €4,000
Accommodation & Meals
To be arranged privately by each participant
Application Process
Admission is subject to CV evaluation and selection
Our Grand Hotel Butler course is delivered by an exceptional international faculty, combining the prestigious trainers of The International Butler Institute with professionals who have operated at the very highest levels of global hospitality.
Participants will learn directly from: Senior trainers from The International Butler Institute Former and current members of Presidential and Royal Households Head Butlers and Senior Butlers from the world’s most iconic luxury hotels, including The Claridge’s, The Ritz London, The Savoy, and The St. Regis – where modern hotel butler service was introduced in 1904.
This unique blend of academic excellence and real-world elite experience ensures that participants are exposed to the highest standards ever in hospitality butler service.
The Grand Hotel Butler Course includes exclusive field experiences in some of the most iconic luxury hospitality environments, designed to expose participants to real-world excellence.
Highlighted visits include: The Waldorf Astoria – Rome
The only hotel in the world featuring a museum-level art collection displayed as part of its interior design, offering a unique perspective on luxury, aesthetics, and guest experience.
The St. Regis – Rome
The historic property where the butler service was first introduced in a luxury hotel in the early 1900s, setting a global benchmark that continues to define excellence in hospitality.
These immersive visits allow participants to observe, analyse, and internalize the standards of world-class luxury hotels, bridging the gap between training and reality.
Upon successful completion of the Grand Hotel Butler Program, participants benefit from a truly dedicated placement service – not merely declared, but actively delivered at the highest level.
Through our network of top-tier international partners, we offer access to:
Job opportunities, Internship placements and highly valuable career introductions within the luxury hospitality sector. Our network includes only the world’s most prestigious hotels and luxury resorts, ensuring that participants are placed in environments that fully reflect the standards of their training.
This is not generic support.
It is a truly targeted, meticulous, high-level placement process designed to connect our graduates with the most iconic hotel and resort properties, where they will act as key drivers of service excellence, supporting these institutions in reaching seven-star standards.
This exclusive training program is designed to be the most advanced and in-depth trainings for aspiring Hotel Butlers worldwide, offering truly unparalleled expertise in the field of luxury hospitality.
It places a strong emphasis on practical skills ensuring that participants graduate with full technical confidence, deep mastery, and the professional maturity required to operate at the highest level, immediately positioning themselves among the world’s elite.
The Grand Hotel Butler Course prepares participants to serve within the most prestigious hotels and resorts worldwide, ready to perform from day one and to actively contribute to elevating any five star property toward seven-star standards.
The Grand Hotel Butler Course is fully supervised by José Robles, Founder, Managing Director, and Head Instructor of The International Butler Institute – a truly unique and internationally recognized authority in butler training worldwide.
His direct presence throughout the entire program, including personally leading many of the training days, represents the strongest possible guarantee of quality, efficiency, and tangible results. His professional background is truly exceptional.
He is among the rare few worldwide to have served royal families, presidential households, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, while also completing multiple elite butler training programs, including those at The International Butler Academy in the Netherlands and the iconic Ivor Spencer International School for Butlers.
Limited Spaces
Only 15 participants per session
Next Intakes:
3th April 2028 – 29th April 2028
2th April 2029 – 28th April 2029
1st April 2030 – 27th April 2030
1st April 2031 – 26th April 2031
We strongly recommend applying well in advance, as the Grand Hotel Butler Course often reaches full capacity several months prior to the start date.
Application Process
Please send your updated CV to management@theinternationalbutlerinstitute.com
Due to the high volume of applications and the very limited number of places available, only candidates whose profile aligns with the standards required by top Hotels & Resorts – and who demonstrate the potential to successfully secure fixed-term employment at the end of the Grand Hotel Butler Course – will be admitted.
If you do not hear from us within 10 days, please consider that your application has not been successful at this stage.
We sincerely thank you for your interest and encourage you to apply again in the future.
