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The Grove Hotel, near Watford has unveiled its new-look nine "signature suites" and sixteen bedrooms following completion of a three-year refurbishment programme.
Fragrance Group has secured planning approval to build a 143-bedroom, four-star hotel on the Promenade in Blackpool. The new hotel will occupy the site of the former, and now demolished, St Chad’s Hotel in the Lancashire resort.
Manchester United fans will welcome the news that the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio has opened a reimagined Marriott Hotel’s “Suite of Dreams” at their club’s Old Trafford stadium in the city. The suite overlooks the pitch and is a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the club’s 1998-1999 treble-winning season.
Staying with football clubs - Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has secured planning approval to develop a new 180-bedroom hotel next to its stadium in time for the Euro’s 2028. The 30-storey building will also include a restaurant, bar, café, swimming pool, gym, terrace, 49 serviced apartments and extensive conference and events facilities.
Hilton Hotels have acquired a majority controlling interest in the NoMad Hotels brand with plans to develop up to 100 NoMad properties worldwide. Included in the portfolio is NoMad London located in the former Bow Street Magistrates Court building.
Crossbasket Castle, currently a small luxury hotel, with just 9 bedrooms on the outskirts of Glasgow, is planning to unveil a £15 million expansion later this year. The new look hotel will include 40-bedrooms, a restaurant and a luxury spa.
A Greek boutique hotel brand is to debut its first UK property in London next year. Ergon House will open in Covent Garden in a newly refurbished heritage listed building in King Street. The hotel will include 20+ bedrooms plus a rooftop restaurant with an alfresco terrace. More details to follow.
The Grand Hotel Bellevue is a new boutique hotel which has recently opened in Norfolk Square in Paddington, London. It is the first UK hotel from the French-based Lignee Hotels. The hotel is housed in a five-storey Victorian townhouse and includes 60 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant, bar and fitness studio.
The Library of Birmingham is not a new venue, but it does feature in the Unique Venues Birmingham. Portfolio. Level 1 of the library offers three flexible meeting rooms, with the largest seating up to 70 delegates theatre style. All the meeting rooms have natural daylight, the latest technology plus views over Centenary Square in the city centre. It is a few minutes’ walk from Birmingham New Street Station.
Hotel Indigo Coventry is a new-build hotel which opened earlier this year on Friargate in the centre of Coventry with 101 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar plus the Lady Godiva meeting room seating up to 10 delegates.
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It’s all happening in Glasgow this month, so we start there with our update and then move south. First, Radisson Hotel Group has signed its first UK Radisson Hotel & Serviced Apartments site in central Glasgow. It is slated to open in 2027.
Address Glasgow has just opened on Renfield Street in central Glasgow. The six -storey, 95-bedroom hotel has a restaurant and bar, a fully equipped gym and a new Wellness Suite. The Author’s Lounge on the first floor is a fully equipped boardroom seating up to 14 delegates.
Leonardo Glasgow Hotel next to Glasgow Central Station, formerly Jurys Inn Glasgow, is to rebrand again – this time to Leonardo Royal Hotel. This follows completion of a refurbishment of the hotel.
Virgin Hotels Glasgow has been put up for sale. The hotel launched last August and then closed in December. It features a restaurant, bar and lounge, flexible terrace area and a conference and events suite for up to 60 delegates plus plans for an additional 77 bedrooms, a gym, function suite, coffee shop and whisky bar.
W Edinburgh, the first W hotel to open in Scotland is scheduled to open in Edinburgh’s St James Quarter in mid-November. It will include 244 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant, cocktail bar and terrace and five meeting and events suites with the largest seating up to 60 delegates theatre style.
May is the scheduled opening date for the new Holiday Inn Blackpool. It will open with 144 bedrooms in the centre of Blackpool, a short walk from the seafront, the town centre and Blackpool North station. Facilities include a Marco’s New York Italian, a bar and lounge plus three meeting rooms and a 24-hour fitness suite.
Halyards at Ropeworks has officially opened in central Liverpool on the site of former 18th century rope-marking warehouses. It has 133 suites and bedrooms, a destination restaurant and bar, a fitness suite with a rooftop terrace and two meeting rooms, one on the ground floor and one on the top floor each seating ten delegates. It is the first hotel in the new IHG Hotels & Resorts' Vignette Collection. - a collection of individually-styled, luxury hotels.
Home Hotels based in Liverpool offer self-catering properties tailored to meet the needs of corporate travellers. They currently operate two properties, one close to Liverpool Football Club, the other three miles from central Liverpool: Home @ Tancred Road, a 6 bedroomed property and Home @ Arkles Lane, offering 7 ensuite rooms. Both properties offer well-appointed living spaces and fully equipped kitchens.
Also in Liverpool, plans have been approved to convert the city’s former Magistrates Court in Dale Street into a four star boutique hotel with a bar and restaurant, meeting rooms and a courtyard garden, plus a gym and sauna. The hotel would have 91 bedrooms and suites initially, with a planned new-build alongside, with 20 bedrooms. We will monitor progress.
Queens Hotel centrally located in City Square, Leeds has rebranded following its acquisition by Stockholm-based hotel property owner, Pandox. The hotel has 232 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar plus 15 flexible meeting rooms with the largest seating up to 500 delegates.
DoubleTree by Hilton Sheffield City is set to open this summer at Sheffield United FC’s Bramall Lane stadium. The hotel, formerly a Millennium and Copthorne property, has 155 bedrooms and suites and features a fitness suite and events space for up to 300 guests.
Plans have been submitted to convert Neach Hill, a Grade-II listed manor house near RAF Cosford, Shropshire into a luxury hotel with 12 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar with meeting and events facilities plus the addition of a new spa in the former walled garden. We will monitor its progress.
Recently completed upgrades at Ashorne Hill Conference Centre on the outskirts of Leamington Spa include 27 revamped bedrooms out of a total of 110 bedrooms, a new meeting room for 60 delegates plus refurbishments to the smaller meeting rooms and the gym. Upgraded outdoor facilities include a seating area, patio heaters, outdoor classrooms and a secret garden.
The Leicester Arms in Penshurst, Kent, has reopened following a £1.2m refurbishment. The hotel with 11 bedrooms has been upgraded to boutique hotel-style accommodation.
Radisson Hotel group has added The View Hotel Folkestone to its Radisson Individuals portfolio, the Group’s newest affiliation brand. The 4-star hotel has 44 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar and is located just five miles from Eurotunnel’s UK terminal.
It’s a long way into the future but plans for the Bristol Temple Island regeneration project in the centre of Bristol are due to be submitted later this year. Plans include a new hotel and conference centre.
Biarritz Hotel is to re-open overlooking St Brelade’s Bay in Jersey under the Bespoke Hotels banner in late March 2024. It includes 46 bedrooms and a restaurant and an outdoor terrace overlooking the Bay. Activities in St Brelade’s Bay feature adventure watersports including surfing, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, coasting plus shallow waters for swimming.
Finally, to London where Sheraton Heathrow Hotel located on the Bath Road close to the main airport terminal buildings has just completed a soft refurbishment of its conference centre. The self-contained centre includes 21 meeting rooms with a maximum capacity of 200 delegates in theatre-style,110 cabaret-style and 150 banqueting-style. The hotel has 428 bedrooms.
It is not a new opening but we draw your attention to an unusual venue - Hard Rock Cafe Piccadilly. It can offer exclusive hire for up to 650 guests, as well as facilities for networking events and private meetings for up to 50. It is located just off Leicester Square in the heart of London’s West End.
We finish with some group news: Dalata is planning to add four new hotels this year, adding 843 bedrooms to its portfolio. New hotels are set to open in Brighton, Liverpool, a fourth hotel Manchester and a fifth hotel in London - by mid-2024.
Hilton Hotels are set to acquire the Graduate Hotels brand – a group with more than 30 hotels in university towns in the US and UK including two UK hotels in Oxford and Cambridge. They have plans to expand the group worldwide.
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The Emory is a new hotel expected to open in April in London’s Knightsbridge district. It will include 60 suites over nine floors, with each floor showcasing different interior designers. The hotel also includes a wellness suite with a 22metre pool plus restaurants and bars. It will join Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley in the Maybourne Hotel Group.
Motel One hotel group plans to open two new hotels in London later this year. Motel One Old Street hotel will open with 237 bedrooms. Motel One Hyde Park will be home to 197 bedrooms. They will join the existing Motel One London property in Tower Hill.
Integrity International Group has acquired Atlas House, along with the Crescent buildings in Tower Hill, central London with plans to convert the Grade II listed building into a hotel. The site is located between the Guildhall, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England. Further details to follow in due course.
Brewery group, Greene King, are launching Everly Hotel Collection - a portfolio of boutique hotels across the UK. The first to open will be the White Horses in Rottingdean, Sussex. It is planned to open summer 2024 with 32 bedrooms and a 290-seat restaurant.
A new hotel is planned in Cambridge with 137 bedrooms plus 80 suites, two conference rooms plus co-working office space, a restaurant, bar, cafe, gym and swimming pool. It would be located in Orchard Park on the outskirts of Cambridge. A decision is expected shortly.
Aparthotel Birmingham has just opened at Birmingham Snowhill in the city centre. The building was formerly the Royal Angus Hotel until 2020. Now renamed following an extensive refurbishment Aparthotel Birmingham includes 84 studios, 71 one-bedroom and 6 two-bedroom apartments across nine floors.
Whilst we are in Birmingham let us share exciting venue news from the football world. It involves world famous Birmingham City Football Club ‘on our doorstep’ here in Birmingham. Its stadium is set to be renamed St. Andrew’s @ KnightheadPark following the signing of a commercial agreement with owners the Shelby Companies. Plans also include a new fans ‘entertainment zone’ @ Knighthead Park, which will be built on club-owned land close to the Main Stand at the Stadium. This is all part of an overall plan to create a world-renowned ‘Sports Quarter’ in Birmingham. We will watch this space.
Malmaison Manchester Deansgate opened on 1st February – the second Malmaison hotel in Manchester. It has 70 bedrooms, a restaurant, bar and two small meeting rooms seating six delegates boardroom style in each. It is a short walk from Manchester Piccadilly station.
Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport Hotel has reopened following the first phase of its £8 million refurbishment project. It features a new open lobby concept, a new bar and a redesigned reception area. The hotel’s 299 bedrooms have also been revamped. The hotel has eight meeting rooms, a business centre and a fitness centre. A new standalone restaurant is planned. The hotel is within walking distance of Manchester Airport’s terminal buildings.
Also in Manchester Treehouse Hotel Manchester is set to open in April in Deansgate in the city centre. It will have 216 bedrooms, a 14th floor restaurant and private event space for up to 400 people. It joins its sister hotel, Treehouse Hotel London, which opened in 2019.
Hilton Hotels have unveiled plans to open a Motto by Hilton hotel directly above the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool. The hotel will include 283 bedrooms and suites plus a restaurant and bar plus meeting spaces. It is due to open in 2025 subject to final approval from Liverpool City Council.
Property developers, the ALB Group, have acquired a site next to Blackpool Tower. Currently the building houses retails units on the ground floor. Plans would see the upper floors developed into a hotel. We await developments.
Kasbah Hotel is a new hotel planned on Grimsby's waterfront. It is part of a masterplan for the regeneration of Grimsby's Ice Factory and the wider Port area. Kasbah Hotel will have 161 bedrooms across five floors. It has been designed to accommodate delegates attending conferences and events at the Ice Factory. We will monitor developments.
The Social Hub, an Amsterdam-based hospitality group, is planning to open its first property in the UK later this year – on Candleriggs Square in the centre of Glasgow. It will be the group’s eighteenth hotel in Europe and will include 494 bedrooms including student accommodation. It will have eight flexible meeting and events rooms, totaling 1,500 square-metres, plus restaurants, bars, a rooftop bar and gyms. We will monitor developments.
W Hotel Edinburgh opened at the end of last year. It is a twelve storey hotel in the city’s St. James Quarter – and part of the Marriott Bonvoy group. It has 199 bedrooms plus 45 suites. The hotel features three restaurants plus a rooftop deck with a 360-degree view of the city. There are five meeting rooms with the largest seating up to 28 delegates ‘U’ shape. There is a fully equipped gym plus a spa with four treatment rooms.
Set to open this Spring 100 Princes Street will be the first Scottish site for The Red Carnation Hotel Collection. The 5-star hotel will open in Edinburgh with 30 bedrooms in the former Royal Overseas League building, overlooking Edinburgh Castle.
Trump Hotels have just opened MacLeod House & Lodge in the Scottish Highlands. The hotel has 18 bedrooms and is available for exclusive use with an eye on corporate golf groups. It is surrounded by mountain ranges, rivers, lochs, and glens and close to Aberdeen.
The Personal Best Education and Conference Centre is not a new opening but they are looking to raise their profile. Located in Romsey near Southampton, the Centre has a range of meeting rooms catering for small groups up to meetings for 50 delegates in all manner of room layouts – all fully equipped with wifi, VGA Connectors, HDMI leads, whiteboards and projectors plus tea and coffee and free parking.
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In London: The Germany-based Numa Group has acquired the 86-bedroom Bedford Corner Hotel. It is housed in a Georgian building in Bailey Street in London’s Bloomsbury and features 86 bedrooms, co-working space and an artisan bakery. It is the group’s first property in London, and they plan to upgrade it and rebranded it as Numa Bloom.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square in Marylebone is the first hotel to receive a Travel Sustainable Level 3 rating rewarding its commitment to sustainability. The hotel has 249 bedrooms and suites plus a Japanese-inspired restaurant.
The Art’otel London Hoxton hotel is set to open on 24 April in Rivington Street (EC2). It will be the second Art'otel, following the launch of Art’otel London Battersea in 2023. As well as a range of artworks on display, the hotel will also include 357 bedrooms and suites, 12 meeting and events spaces, an all-day café, lounge and cocktail bar, leisure facilities and a skyline gym on the 26th floor.
French-owned Lignée Hotels has opened its first UK property in London. Grand Hotel Bellevue is housed in a Victorian townhouse facing Norfolk Square close to London Paddington station. The five-storey, five-star hotel has 60 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar plus a 24-hour Fitness Studio.
Church House in Westminster with flexible event spaces accommodating up to 600 delegates has won a highly commended award in the category of Best Conference Venue at the Prestigious Star Awards.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has gained planning permission to build a hotel next to its stadium in Haringey. It will include 180 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar and leisure facilities including a swimming pool. An opening is anticipated in time for the Euro 2028 football tournament.
In the South-West: A new café, events space and gym is set to open in April in the CEG's EQ building in Redcliffe, one of Bristol's new city centre office blocks. It will feature a 50-seat auditorium plus break-out spaces as well as a rooftop business lounge with a communal terrace.
The Greenway Hotel and Spa in Cheltenham has completed an eight-week refurbishment programme across its main reception, communal areas and brasserie restaurant. The hotel, part of Eden Hotel Collection, completed a refurbishment of its 21 bedrooms last year.
In the Midlands: An £18 million loan has been granted which will cover a substantial part of Warwickshire Cricket Club’s ambition to build a new 4-star hotel with a rooftop terrace and pitch-view rooms with balconies.at its Edgbaston stadium in Birmingham. Final planning approval is expected in September.
Meanwhile if press reports are to be believed the American-based owners of Birmingham City Football Club have purchased a 48acre site close to ‘the Blues’ existing St Andrew’s stadium with a view to creating an internationally recognized ‘Sports Quarter’ with world-class sporting and entertainment facilities. We will monitor developments.
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre has secured funding for its expansion plans which include new exhibition facilities as well as new theatre space, visitor accommodation and office space.
A new 3,500-capacity Conference and Events Centre is currently under construction on the Becketwell site in Derby. An opening is anticipated in the first quarter of 2025. We will monitor progress.
In the North West A new hotel - The Reach at Piccadilly Manchester, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel - is currently under construction in the centre of Manchester. It is a 90-second walk from Manchester Piccadilly station. When it opens - expected in summer 2024 - it will include 215 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant, a bar overlooking the canal and a fully equipped gym.
Hilton is set to open a new 144-bedroom hotel in Wigan on the site of the former Galleries Shopping Centre in the town centre – part of a plan to rejuvenate the Lancashire town. The Hampton by Hilton branded hotel will be located off Market Street in Wigan’s town centre and will feature a gym on level one and a ground floor restaurant. The project is still at the planning stage.
Inn Collection has opened Offshore, a refurbished and renamed hotel on the sea-front at St Annes on Sea in Lancashire. It was formerly the Carlton and Lindum Hotels prior to a total refurbishment and remodelling. The Offshore has 98 bedrooms, an outdoor terrace, a restaurant and bar.
In Yorkshire: The new Radisson Blu Sheffield hotel is scheduled to open in June. It overlooks the Peace Gardens in Sheffield city centre. It will have 154 bedrooms and suites, a rooftop bar and restaurant plus conference facilities and events space.
In Scotland: Brisbane House in Largs overlooking Largs Bay and the River Clyde in Scotland has just completed a major refurbishment. The boutique hotel has17 bedrooms. The hotel includes the new-look Brisbane Suite with a private terrace which will host an event for up to 200 guests.
The Glenmorangie Company, operators of Ardbeg Distillery, is planning to transform The Islay Hotel on the shores of the Isle of Islay in Scotland into a ‘whisky and hospitality experience’. The hotel will feature a new-look restaurant, 11 luxury bedrooms and a ‘whisky cave’, all operating under the new name of Ardbeg House. The hotel will operate as normal until the end of this summer 2024 and will re-open as Ardbeg House in May 2025. We are told the news will delight the fans of Glenmorangie.
Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh - The Caledonian, better known as ‘The Caley’ is set to undergo a major refurbishment starting this summer and will become part of Curio Collection by Hilton.
Dalata Hotel Group has secured planning permission to create its first hotel in Edinburgh. The Clayton-branded hotel will have 167 bedrooms, a restaurant, bar plus meeting and events facilities. The site is on St Andrew's Square in the city centre. Further details to follow in due course.
Group News: Hilton Hotels are set to acquire the Graduate Hotels brand – a group with more than 30 hotels in university towns in the US and UK including two UK hotels: in Oxford and Cambridge. They have plans to expand the group worldwide.
Finally, Caterer magazine is reporting that The Duchy of Cornwall, has submitted plans for a mixed-use development in Kent which will include a hotel. Further details await publication.
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We begin this latest roundup of new venue news in the north-east. Our first stop is at Durham County Cricket Club which has submitted ambitious plans to build a new 152-bedroom hotel at its ground in Chester-le-Street. The hotel would feature a bar-lounge, meeting rooms and a restaurant overlook the pitch. We will monitor its progress.
Heading further north to Newcastle -on -Tyne. Here a major £2million refurbishment package is currently underway upgrading the bedrooms, meeting rooms and restaurant at the Hotel Indigo Newcastle in the city centre – a two-minute walk from Central station. It is expected to complete this Spring. The hotel currently has 148 bedrooms, a restaurant, fitness suite and one meeting room.
Meanwhile, Dakota Newcastle will be the group’s sixth UK hotel when it opens spring 2025. It will open with 118 bedrooms in St Anne’s Wharf, overlooking the River Tyne. The hotel will include a ground floor Bar and Grill. Further details to follow but interestingly the new hotel will be just across the river from the proposed new major conference centre and indoor events arena at Gateshead Quays. Dakota currently operates hotels in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Motherwell, Leeds and Manchester.
Staying in Newcastle, Bespoke Hotels have planning permission to extend its Hotel Gotham Newcastle. The extension will open in a former five-storey fire station building with 60-bedroom hotel and a restaurant in winter 2024. A further 30-bedroom extension is also planned to open the following winter.
Plans have been submitted for a new events venue and spa at the historic, Grade II-listed Hotham Hall Estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Plans outline a change of use for the former stable block on the estate to create an events venue with guest accommodation plus a spa facility in the estate grounds.
Across the Pennines - INNsIDE by Melia Manchester has just opened its new D'Acampo Manchester restaurant and bar with its own private entrance on First Street in central Manchester.
Northcote Manor Hotel in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley has secured planning permission to build a new stand-alone 48-cover fine dining restaurant in its grounds. The hotel is also planning to add extra hotel bedrooms plus a spa.
Down to the Midlands where Merlin Entertainments is set to open a new hotel in the grounds of Warwick Castle this July. The hotel, built on a former car park, will include 60 bedrooms each designed to create an immersive experience for guests with ‘talking’ historic portraits and bedrooms featuring the Wars of the Roses.
In Northern Ireland - A new 74-bedroom hotel on the site of a former police station in Queen Street, Belfast city centre is set to go ahead. The building dates from 1878 and originally opened as the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
The Dunluce Lodge is a new build, 35 bedroom, five-star luxury hotel and spa opening at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland this coming autumn, just ahead of the Open Championship which the club will be hosting next year. The hotel will have 35 bedrooms and is set on the edge of the course’s fourth fairway overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It will have a restaurant and bar plus a small, but intimate spa with a fitness facility.
In Wales - The Inn Collection is planning a multi-million pound refurbishment of the Swallow Falls Hotel in Betws-y-Coed. It will include adding a new pub and restaurant, modernizing the hotel’s 38 bedrooms and adding new ones. The 38 camping pitches at this former Youth Hostel Association building will be retained and enhanced.
In Scotland - The Innovation Hub at MSIP is a new meeting and events venue which opened last November in Dundee. It includes two main events spaces each seating up to 90 delegates plus eight meeting rooms, co-working spaces and a café. It is located on Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc in Dundee.
The former Macdonald Holyrood Hotel has just relaunched as Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood, following completion of a £10million refurbishment. The hotel has 160 bedrooms and suites, restaurants and bars, a spa and fitness centre with an indoor pool plus extensive meeting and events facilities. It is located in Edinburgh’s historic old town.
Radisson are planning to open their first Radisson Hotel & Serviced Apartments in Glasgow with an opening date scheduled for 2027. The hotel will feature a mix of standard and luxury apartments, a restaurant, a rooftop bar, a gym and meeting spaces. It will be located in Maxwell Street within walking distance of Glasgow Central station.
Finally to London:
Lifestyle aparthotel brand, Native Places, is set to open a new Native hotel in London’s Fulham. Scheduled to open in 2025, Native Fulham Broadway will be the group’s eighth aparthotel and it’s fifth in London. It will include 41 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. The group is also planning a major refurbishment of its property in Glasgow.
A Spring 2024 opening is planned for the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair in London. It will have 50 guestrooms and 77 private residences, a restaurant with an award-winning chef plus a signature Spa complete with an indoor 25-metre heated swimming pool, sauna, vitality pools, experience showers and steam rooms and a state-of-the-art gym. You will find it in Hanover Square.
Motel One group is opening two new hotels in London later this year. Motel One Old Street will have 237 bedrooms and Motel One Hyde Park will have197 bedrooms. They are set to join Motel One’s only other London property at Tower Hill.
Miiro is a new lifestyle hotel brand. It is planning open Templeton Garden in London's Earl's Court next year. It will be the group’s first UK property.
Mason & Fifth Primrose Hill is a new guesthouse opening in London in April. It is set across four 1860s Regency townhouses now converted into 61 luxury studio apartments each featuring a top of the range kitchen. The guesthouse also includes communal spaces plus a yoga pavilion. Primrose Hill is the group’s second site in London, following its launch in Bermondsey.
It has been all over the news recently but in case you missed it: Telecoms giant, BT Group, has agreed to sell BT Tower in London to MCR Hotels, who plan to create a luxury hotel with events space whilst preserving BT Tower as a famous landmark.
Finally, If you just happen to have around £800million ‘burning a hole in your pocket’, The Village Hotel Group is about to go on sale through an American private equity fund, if you are interested. The group operates 33 hotels with 4,000+ hotel bedrooms, restaurants, bars plus meeting and leisure facilities.
Enjoy March.
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Latest Hotel and Venue News: starting in London and moving west and north:
art’otel London Hoxton, the second art’otel in the Capital is set to open in March. It will include 357 bedrooms and suites, destination bars and restaurants, an art gallery and events space. Leisure facilities will include an indoor swimming pool, sauna, steam room, treatment rooms and a gym. It is located around 200m from Old Street Tube station.
Hyde London City is a new hotel opening in London this summer. The Grade II-listed building is located on the Old Bailey in the City of London, directly overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral. It will have 111 bedrooms, a Turkish restaurant and a cocktail bar. It is set to mark the brand's British debut.
Twickenham Stadium Hotel, formerly the London Marriott Hotel Twickenham is set to be rebranded as the Radisson Red Twickenham. New operators will take over the hotel on 1st April followed by a refurbishment during which the hotel will remain open. The hotel has 156 bedrooms including six suites overlooking the rugby pitch.
Spring 2024 will see the introduction of new dining and events space at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. It will feature a rooftop garden with views across East London, a café and a restaurant across two floors. Various spaces will be available for events throughout the year and will be available for private hire.
Developers are planning to convert a 1960’s office block near the centre of Bath into a 152 bedroom hotel. The building, Beazer House, described as ‘environmentally challenged’ could soon be demolished and replaced with a new six-storey, three-star hotel with 152 bedrooms plus a restaurant and bar. If planning permission is granted, development work could start this June with an anticipated opening date at the end of 2025.
ibis Styles Paignton is a new hotel just opened in the Devon resort. A seafront hotel, it has 121 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar, a fitness centre, a meeting room to seat up to six delegates plus a terrace.
Further north, the historic Batchwood Hall in St Albans is set for a total refurbishment and conversion into a hotel, with 14 bedrooms, a restaurant, bar and events space. A 2025 opening is anticipated if all goes to plan.
The Store Oxford is a new hotel scheduled to open this February in the centre of Oxford. The Store will have 101 bedrooms, a restaurant, rooftop bar, spa and co-working space. It is located on the site of the former Boswells department store in the centre of Oxford.
The Pig Hotel group has acquired the Barnsley House hotel and the Boot pub in the Cotswolds village of Barnsley close to Cirencester. It will launch as The Pig and The Village Pub with 18 bedrooms this summer following a refurbishment.
The group is also set to launch The Pig on the Farm at the end of this year in Stratford on Avon. It will be located in a converted mid-16th century stone-built farmhouse in 50 acres of land five miles from Stratford. It will have 35 ensuite bedrooms and suites, a restaurant plus private lounges and dining rooms.
A new hotel is set to open at the Dallas Burston Polo Club in Warwickshire later this year. The hotel on the 200-acre site will have 40 boutique bedrooms plus a range of sports and events facilities, including four polo grounds, an equestrian arena, a gastropub and a 3,000-capacity Events Centre.
Cogs Restaurant & Bar with 100 covers is a new addition which has just opened at Hotel Indigo Coventry in Friargate, central Coventry.
11 Brindley Place is a 12-floor modern office block overlooking Brindley Place on the edge of Birmingham city centre, 10 minutes from New Street station. It offers a range of recently refurbished meeting facilities to suit a variety of layouts seating up to 14 delegates boardrooms style, 20 U- shape and 40 theatre style.
To Wolverhampton where JD Wetherspoon plan to add an additional 25 hotel rooms to the planned 71-bedroom extension at The Moon Under Water pub in Wolverhampton city centre. The property was formerly a Co-op store. We will monitor developments here with the greatest of interest.
Malmaison Manchester Deansgate opens on 1 February. It will include 70 bedrooms, a bar and grill, private dining and meeting rooms for up to 12 guests. It will also feature the group’s second Sora rooftop bar and restaurant. It overlooks Manchester Town Hall.
The Halyard at Ropewalks Liverpool opens next month. It is the first of IHG’s Vignette Collection hotels to open in the UK. The Halyard stands on the “footprint” of former 18th century rope-making warehouse in Liverpool’s Ropewalks district – and this reflects the style of the hotel. The hotel will have 133 bedrooms plus a 200-seater restaurant, a bar, private dining facilities and two small meeting rooms.
The Inn Collection Group is set to launch The Ullswater Inn in early February in the Lake District overlooking Helvellyn. It is located on the site of the former Glenridding Hotel. The reopening follows a 12-month closure for a total refurbishment which has included an increase in the number of bedrooms from 36 to 57.
Over in the north east The Bailiffgate Hotel is a new hotel opening this summer in Alnwick, Northumberland. It is a modern 5-storey building adjoining a former Georgian schoolhouse. The hotel will have 48 bedrooms and suites plus a bar, restaurant and a private dining room.
Irish hotel brand The Address Collective is planning its UK debut with The Address Glasgow - opening in early 2024. The Address Glasgow is a six-storey hotel located in Renfield Street - with 95 bedrooms, a restaurant, bar, a first-floor meeting space with a fixed boardroom layout accommodating up to 14 people. Facilities also include a wellness spa complete with a gym.
The Hoxton Edinburgh is a new hotel in Haymarket opening summer 2024. The hotel will be formed from 11 joined together Georgian townhouses on either side of the street. It will comprise 211 guest bedrooms, a restaurant plus a range of large events spaces and a gallery.
Dalata, the Ireland-based hotel group, has submitted plans to build a new Clayton Hotel Edinburgh in St Andrew’s Square. If approved the 4-star hotel will have 167 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar, a gym and two large meeting rooms.
We were planning to finish our news roundup with a closure rather than a new opening. However, The Cardiff Coal Exchange hotel which opened in 2017 had closed its doors in the middle of January, but now a new management team plan to reopen the hotel with 200 bedrooms on 8 March. All good news.