The Windsor Castle Hotel is leaving Accor’s Mercure Collection and joining Accor’s MGallery Collection in September 2015. MGallery is a worldwide grouping of individually styled boutique hotels.
The four-star Windsor Castle Hotel has 108 bedrooms and suites all equipped with the latest entertainment and communications technology, combined with quirky design references to the hotel’s past. The hotel features 12 conference suites and syndicate rooms of varying sizes accommodating up to a capacity of 400-seated guests - the largest event space in Windsor.
The Windsor Castle Hotel will join the Francis Hotel Bath as the only other UK hotel member of the MGallery Collection.
The Windsor Castle Hotel is located in Windsor’s High Street, a few minutes’ walk from Windsor Castle and garden.
Details: www.accorhotels.com
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A construction company has been appointed and Kingsmead House in Bath, reputedly Bath’s ugliest building, has been demolished - all to make way for the new Apex City of Bath Hotel.
Building work will start on site shortly on the new 177-bedroom Apex City of Bath Hotel, the group’s tenth hotel and only its second new-build property.
The £35million project is expected to open late spring 2017.
Apex City of Bath Hotel will be a full service hotel with conference facilities. It is located in the Bath Conservation Area.
Details: www.apexhotels.co.uk
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Adagio Birmingham City Centre aparthotel opens 10th August 2015 with 108 apartments in Birmingham’s new Beorma Quarter in Digbeth. The aparthotel is housed in a converted Grade II-listed building which was a former cold store. It will be the second Adagio aparthotel in Birmingham.
Adagio Birmingham City Centre includes both studio and two-room apartments. All apartments feature a fully equipped kitchen with a refrigerator-freezer, microwave with grill, dishwasher, kettle and coffee maker, crockery and kitchen utensils. Each apartment also includes a work desk with a lamp and telephone, free broadband wi-fi, a digital safe and an LCD television.
Other services include a daily housekeeping for stays of 1 to 3 nights and a weekly service for stays of 8 nights or more. Guests have access to a gym from 7am to midnight.
Adagio Birmingham City Centre is a five minute walk from Birmingham New Street Station (for a fifteen minute rail service to Birmingham International Airport) and a two minute walk from Birmingham Moor Street Station.
Details: www.adagio-city.com
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The Bill Shankly-themed, Shankly Hotel, opens in Liverpool with 86 bedrooms on 15 August 2015.
As befits a football-themed hotel it will be an opening of two halves. The first part will include a 150-seat restaurant and bar called ‘The Bastion’ - based on a quote by the former Liverpool FC manager Bill Shankly about making his team a "bastion of invincibility". 60 of the bedrooms will be Shankly-themed rooms.
The second half of the development will include a rooftop bar and restaurant, conference facilities and a rooftop garden. It is expected to open in spring 2016.
The Shankly Hotel will also include a museum dedicated to the football icon, which will contain family memorabilia covering his reign at Anfield.
The Shankly Hotel is located in the Millennium House building, former council offices in Victoria Street in central Liverpool - between Liverpool Lime Street station and the Albert Dock.
Details: www.shanklyhotel.com
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Solberge Hall, located near Northallerton in North Yorkshire has been acquired by Classic Lodges.
Solberge Hall is a Georgian mansion set in countryside between the Yorkshire Dales and Vale of York. The hotel has 24 individually designed bedrooms and a garden room brasserie restaurant. There are four meeting rooms. The purpose-built, air conditioned Hamilton Suite is the largest accommodating up to 250 delegates. There is free car parking and free wi-fi.
Solberge Hall is 3.5 miles from Northallerton Station and 40 miles from Leeds-Bradford Airport.
Details: www.classiclodges.co.uk
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- Published: 31 July 2015
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