Hotel & Venue News

Portobello Road Gin is planning a ‘gin-shrine’ on the site of an old pub on the corner of Portobello and Talbot Roads in west London.

This is the site where ‘Ginstitute’ initially opened in late 2011 as the new home of gin in West London - as well as being London’s second smallest museum.

The four-storey building will be revamped as a Victorian gin palace with a Spanish restaurant, a gin and tonic bar, private dining rooms, a visitor centre to view the on-site distillery process and a boutique hotel.

Portobello Road Gin is scheduled to open in November 2016.

Details: https://www.portobelloroadgin.com/

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St Michael's Hotel and Spa in Falmouth, Cornwall is about to undergo a £6 million investment programme which will see its health club more than double in size.

Plans also include an additional 32 bedrooms as well as an extension to the restaurant with the addition of a sea-facing terrace for alfresco dining.

The new spa will include a three storey "urban style" gym, three studios dedicated to spinning, holistic and fitness classes and treatment rooms. The 17 metre pool will also be refurbished with a reopening planned for next February.

Four eco woodland lodges, with private decks and hot tubs, will be created in the St Michael's spa gardens.

Construction work will start at St Michael's Hotel and Spa in October with completion expected by May 2017. When complete the hotel will be rebranded as the St Michael's.

St Michael's Hotel and Spa has a range of modern and traditionally furnished meeting rooms with two contemporary-styled glass fronted rooms for up to 12 delegates boardroom style plus the main Regatta Suite seating 120 delegates theatre style.

St Michael's Hotel and Spa overlooks Gyllyngvase Beach and is a short walk from the centre of Falmouth.

Details: https://www.stmichaelshotel.co.uk

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Scottish Rugby has unveiled a project to develop a hotel on land near the entrance to the BT Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

The planned hotel will have between 100 and 200 bedrooms and is expected to be in the three to four star sectors.

The proposed development site is adjacent to the main entrance of the stadium off Roseburn Street and diagonally opposite the Murrayfield tram stop.

The 67,000 capacity Murrayfield Stadium is the home of Scottish rugby. It has good transport links out to Edinburgh Airport and in to central Edinburgh.

Details: http://www.scottishrugby.org/news/16/06/02/scottish-rugby-look-develop-hotel-bt-murrayfield

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Nadler Hotels has acquired Walter House an office building in London’s Covent Garden.

They plan to convert it into a 56-bedroom boutique hotel. The five storey building is currently unoccupied above its street level retail outlets.

The new hotel will be Nadler’s fourth hotel in London and fifth in the UK. It joins The Nadler Kensington, The Nadler Soho plus the recently opened The Nadler Victoria. The Nadler Liverpool completes the portfolio.

Details: http://www.thenadler.com/

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Travelodge is adding three hotels to its UK portfolio. The properties are all existing hotels which will undergo a refurbishment and a rebranding. This will take the Travelodge portfolio up to 530 hotels.

The hotels are:
The 159-bedroom Ramada Encore in Milton Keynes is undergoing a £1.2million refurbishment and will be known in future as Milton Keynes Travelodge at the Hub.

The 90-bedroom Ramada Encore Chatham in Kent, has undergone a £600,000 revamp and will become the Travelodge Chatham Maritime.

The 100-bedroom Day Inn, next to Derbyshire County Cricket Ground, will be rebranded as Travelodge Derby Cricket Ground.

Details: https://www.travelodge.co.uk/