Hotel & Venue News

Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa in Dundee has just completed a multi-million-pound refurbishment.

The £2.4 million refurbishment has upgraded all 151 bedrooms and suites throughout Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa as well as updating the hotel’s leisure facilities.

The investment is part of a £15 million package of improvements across the Apex Hotels portfolio.

The new-look bedrooms at Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa now feature the ‘Scandi-look’ with grey patterned carpets and strong contrasts between light and dark.

The leisure facilities at Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa have also been upgraded include the Ozone pool, the large hot-tub and Yu Spa.

Further investment is planned for the conference and events facilities within Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

As part of the £15 million group refurbishment programme, improvements are also underway at two Edinburgh Apex hotels – Haymarket and Waterloo Place – as well as Apex Temple Court Hotel, in London.

Multi-million-pound refurbishment works at Apex Grassmarket Hotel in Edinburgh and Apex City of London Hotel have now been completed.

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

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Celtic Manor Resort have unveiled their plans to celebrate Royal Entomological Society’s ‘National Insect Week’.

Grub Kitchen will take over the hotel’s Newbridge-on-Usk restaurant as a pop-up experience - from 21st – 23rd June 2018.

Grub Kitchen’s philosophy promotes sustainable local produce combined with the practice of eating insects, or ‘entomophagy’.

Chef Andy Holcroft and entomologist Dr Sarah Beynon are the driving forces behind the project. Their Bug Farm Foods and Grub Kitchen in Pembrokeshire is the UK’s first dedicated insect restaurant. It opened in 2015.

Their aim is to turn bug-munching from novelty to normalcy, introducing our palates to the many delicious and nutritious edible insects that are part of everyday diets in many parts of the world.

Celtic Manor Resort is offering its guests the opportunity to experience the ‘wonder food of the future’ as Chef Andy Holcroft turns high protein critters into flavoursome creations with amazing nutritional benefits.

Diners will be able to tuck into Bug Burger bites and a Grub Garden Tartlet with garlic chapuline grasshoppers followed by caramelised cricket panna cotta.

The pop-up menu will also feature traditional dishes for the less adventurous diners.

Alongside innovative insect dishes the diners at the pop-up will also be able to try craft beers and insect-based cocktails.

Chef Andy Holcroft says: “Insects have served as a food source for people for tens of thousands of years, all over the planet. Today insect eating is rare in the western world, but insects remain a popular food in many places like Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Africa, Mexico, Columbia and New Guinea to name just a few.”

Details: https://www.celtic-manor.com/dining/dining-events/the-grub-kitchen

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Dalata Hotel Group has signed agreements to operate two new hotels to be built in the UK - in Birmingham and Bristol.

The site in Birmingham will be in Suffolk Street, adjacent to the Mailbox shopping centre complex and close to the Bullring and New Street station.

The four-star hotel will carry the Maldron brand. It will include around 330 air-conditioned bedrooms, a bar, a restaurant and meeting facilities.

The construction of the hotel is subject to planning approval and consent from Birmingham City Council.

If all goes to plan the new Maldron Hotel Birmingham will open in the first quarter 2021.

Details: http://dalatahotelgroup.com/

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Dalata Hotel Group has signed agreements to operate two new hotels to be built in the UK - in Bristol and Birmingham.

In Bristol the new hotel will be a conversion of the existing Natwest Court office building in Broad Street, with its listed façade upgraded.

The planned new 250-bedroom, 4-star hotel will carry the Clayton Hotel branding. The hotel will also include a bar, restaurant and conference facilities.

An opening of Clayton Hotel Bristol is scheduled by the third quarter of 2020, subject to planning approval from Bristol City Council.

Details: http://dalatahotelgroup.com/

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easyHotel group is introducing a free lullaby playlist service as an aid to a good night’s sleep.

The lullaby playlist will replicate the soothing sounds of home such as the hum of the hoover and the gurgling of radiator pipes.

The lullaby playlist service will be available via the Spotify app.

The lullaby playlist will trial initially at easyHotels in Glasgow, Newcastle and Croydon.

Other sounds featured include free-moving traffic (no horns), a dishwasher, distant calm conversation, the sound of a shower and a cat purring.

EasyHotels claim the sounds of home will help guests fall sleep.

Glasgow, Newcastle and Croydon have been chosen as the trail hotels because, according to easyHotels, the guests in these hotels have the latest checkout times which suggests that they need the most sleep.

If the experience proves successful, the lullaby playlist service will be rolled out across the easyHotel network.

Details: https://www.easyhotel.com/