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Net zero carbon hotel opening in London
Lamington Group is planning to open Room2 Chiswick. It will be London’s first Hometel and the world’s first whole life net zero carbon hotel. It opens in the heart of Chiswick in December.
Room2 Chiswick is expected to be 89 per cent more energy efficient than the typical UK hotel per sq-mt. It will incorporate the technology to achieve net zero throughout both the design and construction stages and throughout its whole lifespan - focusing on reducing the greatest contributor to climate change, carbon emissions and greenhouse gases.
Room2 Chiswick will have 86 rooms each with a kitchenette and access to the cafe and restaurant. The building is inspired by the Arts & Craft movement so expect rooms fitted with bespoke handcrafted pieces from a range of local artists and designers.
Room2 Chiswick will also feature two ‘lab rooms’ to provide data on energy, water use and air quality, as well as learning from guest behaviour patterns. The building has been opened up to university partnerships to test new innovative technologies and interventions to reduce energy and carbon.
Room2 Chiswick is located just off Chiswick High Road in London. It is a short walk from Turnham Green tube station, served by the District and Piccadilly lines.
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Porsche plans to drive the hotel market
You may not be able to afford to drive a Porsche but soon you will be able to sleep in a Porsche – that is a Porsche Hotel.
The Porsche Design Group – a luxury lifestyle brand owned by the car company - has linked up with Steigenberger Hotels and Resorts. They are planning to launch a range of luxury lifestyle brand Steigenberger Porsche Design Hotels. The group plan to open 15 hotels in cities around the world including London.
Details of when and where the hotels will open have not been released. The hotels will however include a minimum of 150 bedrooms, suites and penthouses, a restaurant and bar concept plus a health and beauty facility with a gym.
Steigenberger Hotels current portfolio includes a total of around 150 hotels on three continents, with more than 30 are under construction or in planning. Currently they have no presence in the UK market.
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New Hotel coming to the Peak District
Construction work has just begun on a new hotel in the Peak District. The new hotel will be on the site of the Rising Sun Hotel, a former eighteenth-century coaching inn in the village of Hope in Derbyshire.
The hotel will have 60 bedrooms plus a restaurant and bar. It will be operated by Bike & Boot which opened its first hotel in Scarborough last year.
The new hotel will target bikers, walkers and dogs, and is set to open in the summer of 2022.
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Lake District Hotel generating its own electricity
English Lakes Hotels and Resorts has installed a water-fed turbine to generate its own hydropower for the Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa. An 860-metre pipe will convey water at up to 79 litres per second to a fully automatic turbine before it flows back into the beck. It is expected to generate a power output of 53kW to 60kW to attain 180MWh to 200MWh of electricity each year, equivalent to powering 50 homes a year.
Tim Berry from English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues says the turbine is “already on target to create enough energy for about a third of our electricity needs for the venue”. A key advantage of hydro energy is that energy production is continuous and less dependent on changeable weather conditions.
English Lakes Hotels is a family run hotel group with two Lake District Hotels (The Lowood Bay Resort and Spa and the Wild Boar Hotel) and two North Lancashire hotels (The Midland and Lancaster House).
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Pocotel opens in Glasgow
Pocotel Glasgow City Centre is a new 91-bedroom hotel which has just opened in the centre of Glasgow. It is the first opening of a new hotel branding owned by Bracknell Property LLP which aims to target the small to mid-sized contemporary hotel market.
Pocotel Glasgow City Centre is located in West George Street in the centre of Glasgow, - a three- minute walk from Glasgow Central station.
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Westin London City opening November
The new Westin London City is now set to open this November. It will be the first Westin Hotels & Resorts branded hotel in the UK.
The Westin London City hotel opens in Upper Thames Street in the former Queensbridge House site. It overlooks the River Thames, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Tate Modern.
Westin London City has 222 luxuriously furnished bedrooms, two restaurants and a riverside wine bar.
Leisure facilities at Westin London City include a fitness studio and spa with six therapy rooms.
Westin London City has seven meeting and events suites with the largest room seating up to 246 delegates theatre style and supported by five breakout rooms – all are fully equipped with the latest meeting technology.
Westin London City will complete the northern riverbank walkway between the Tower of London and Millennium Bridge.