Hotel & Venue News

Plans have been unveiled for a new budget hotel concept about to be launched in the UK to be branded: NoCo.

NoCo is the brainchild of the Ennismore Group, operators of the Hoxton Shoreditch in London as well as Gleneagles in Scotland.

Each NoCo site will have between 150 and 200 bedrooms, with rates under £100. The hotels will be technology-based with booking and check-in carried out via an app.

Guestrooms will be compact and comfortable and the restaurants will aim to become destinations in their own right.

Ennismore is planning to open 25 NoCo hotels in key cities across the UK, with the first opening in 2018.

Details: Published: 22 June 2016; Hits: 632

Aparthotel chain Roomzzz has announced details of its first London hotel to open in Stratford.

Opening in March 2017, Roomzzz London Stratford will have 87 apartments. It will be a new build site in West Ham Lane within walking distance of Queen Elizabeth Olympic

Park, Westfield shopping centre and Stratford tube station.

Roomzzz aparthotels have existing properties in Chester, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham.

As well as London Stratford, Roomzzz is also planning new aparthotels in Liverpool, Manchester Corn Exchange and York.

Details: http://www.roomzzz.com/

Details: Published: 22 June 2016; Hits: 660

Accor Hotels has confirmed that it will open a new Novotel in London’s Canary Wharf at the end of 2016. At 127 metres high, it will be the tallest Novotel in the world.

Novotel London Canary Wharf will have 313 bedrooms including 26 suites, a ‘cutting edge’ restaurant and bar concept plus nine meeting rooms and breakout areas.

Novotel London Canary Wharf will be located at 40 Marsh Street, a short walk from Canary Wharf DLR and tube station.

Details: http://www.novotel.com

Details: Published: 20 June 2016; Hits: 684

The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch in London is to be rebranded as the UK’s first Hard Rock Hotel by summer 2018.

Hard Rock Hotels has agreed the move with glh the owner-operator of the Cumberland Hotel.

Glh with 15 hotels in London will continue to operate the property.

A £50million refurbishment is planned for the property. The Hard Rock Hotel London will then have 900 bedrooms and will feature a lobby lounge with a cocktail bar and live music.

There will be a Hard Rock Café and Rock Shop as well as a Rock Spa and a signature restaurant. It will also include an entertainment venue for up to 2000 guests.

Hard Rock Hotel London will include Jimi Hendrix items among its rock memorabilia. When Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 the Cumberland Hotel was named on the death certificate as his place of residence and a suite was named after him.

Hard Rock Hotel London is located a short walk from the original Hard Rock Café in central London.

Details: http://www.hardrockhotels.com/

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QHotels, operators of Mottram Hall Hotel, have submitted a planning application to alter and extend the 120-bedroom Mottram Hall Hotel in Cheshire.

The Grade II-listed Mottram Hall Hotel was constructed as a country house in the middle of the eighteenth century and is now a four-star hotel with the 18-hole Mottram Hall Championship Golf Course alongside.

The group plan a new two-storey conference centre extension with nine meeting rooms. A new four-storey bedroom extension will add 34 bedrooms with 15 more bedrooms created through the conversion of existing meeting rooms. The main car park would also be extended.

A planning decision is expected in September.

Details: http://www.qhotels.co.uk/our-locations/mottram-hall/

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