Hotel & Venue News

Workspace provider Regus has opened an Express Lounge at Hilton Manchester Airport Hotel. It features a drop-in business lounge with private workstations or 'ThinkPods', seats with laptop stands and phone chargers and free wi-fi. Meeting rooms to seat between two and four people are also available for hourly or day hire.

The Regus Express network in Britain already covers motorway service areas, retail parks, shopping centres and airports. The Express lounge at Hilton Manchester Airport is the second one to open in a Hilton hotel. The first opened recently in Hilton Warwick/Stratford-upon-Avon.

Details: www.regus.co.uk

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A New York-based hotel developer has submitted plans for a 45-storey mixed hotel and office block next to the Broadgate development in London.

Masterworks Development Corporation, operators of the Club Quarters hotel brand, is planning a 390-bedroom hotel in the top 27-floor section of a new building which will be located at 13-14 Appold Street.

The existing Bavaria House on the site is due to be demolished at the end of 2015. This will be followed by a three and a half year construction programme with an estimated 18-month fit-out phase expected to get underway summer of 2017.

Club Quarters currently operates four hotels in London at St Paul’s, Trafalgar Square, Lincoln Inn Fields and Gracechurch Street.

Details: www.constructionenquirer.com

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Belmond Ltd has just announced the imminent arrival of Belmond Grand Hibernian, the first luxury touring train in Ireland and sister train of the Belmond Royal Scotsman.

Launching on the rails in August 2016, Belmond Grand Hibernian will be available for exclusive two, four and six night excursions starting from Dublin with itineraries throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Interior designs of Belmond Grand Hibernian draw on Ireland’s unique character and mythology with colours inspired by the flora and fauna of the countryside. The overall design is fresh and contemporary with a 'hint of heritage and a breath of Irish air'.

Each carriage will reflect the colours of the tartans from the county after which they are named. The sleeper carriages accommodate 40 passengers in en-suite cabins. There will be two dining cars: the ‘Wexford’ and the ‘Sligo’ each serving the authentic taste of Ireland including Irish whiskies. The 'Kildare' will be the observation car kitted out as an Irish saloon and featuring large picture windows to watch the world go by.

Details: www.belmond.com

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Plans have been submitted for a new 20-storey hotel in Chapel Street in Salford. The hotel together with three apartment blocks plus shops and town houses will form a new development alongside a railway viaduct at the junction of Chapel Street, Trinity Way and Gore Street.

The hotel will feature 206 bedrooms, 11 serviced apartments, five meeting rooms, a ground-level reception bar and restaurant and a rooftop 'sky bar'.
A new pedestrian route will connect Chapel Street to the New Bailey area on the opposite side of the railway viaduct and then to the Spinningfields area of central Manchester.

A preliminary decision is expected from Salford City Council by the end of July 2015.

Details: www.insidermedia.com/insider

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Malmaison Hotel du Vin group is planning to open in Stratford-on-Avon. The group is aiming to restore two Georgian buildings in Rother Street - owned by the Stratford Town Trust - into a stylish 48 bedroom Hotel du Vin.

If planning consent is obtained it is expected Hotel du Vin Stratford on Avon would open by the end of 2016. Facilities at the hotel will include meeting and private dining rooms, a Bistro and a separate banqueting room with the capacity to seat up to 80 diners. The development will be in keeping with the Grade II-listed status of the buildings.

Rother Street is at the centre of the Rother Market area of Stratford-upon-Avon, a five minute walk from Stratford on Avon station.

Details: www.stratfordtowntrust.co.uk