The new Crowne Plaza Manchester Oxford Road, which is scheduled to open in May 2018, is naming its meeting rooms after famous Manchester University alumni.
The location of the hotel on Oxford Road in the heart of Manchester’s ‘University Quarter’ has prompted the decision.
Lots of celebrities, prize-winning academics, actors, artists, architects and scientists have worked and studied at the University and UMIST down the years
Those who have been name-checked with a room dedicated to their achievements include: computing expert Alan Turing; Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the famous British astronomer; Nobel prize-winning architect Norman Foster; chemist Sir Robert Robinson; former Chief Executive of Manchester City Council Sir Howard Bernstein; English comedienne, screenwriter and actress Jennifer Saunders; Manchester Town Hall architect Alfred Waterhouse and Dame Nancy Rothwell - the British physiologist who has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester since July 2010.
The Crowne Plaza will share its 19-storey building with Staybridge Suites Manchester Oxford Road. Both hotels are taking bookings from the 7thMay 2018.
Crowne Plaza – Manchester Oxford Road will have 212 bedrooms, a 120-cover restaurant, seven meeting rooms and a gym - from the ground floor up to the eleventh floor.
Staybridge Suites – Manchester Oxford Road will have a mix of 116 studio and one bedroom suites located on the upper eight floors.
