King Street Townhouse is a new hotel opening in the centre of Manchester in August 2015. King Street Townhouse will join three other Manchester hotels in the Eclectic Hotels group.

King Street Townhouse will be located in the Upper King Street conservation area of Manchester city centre. It is a Grade II-listed former bank building, dating back to 1864. It is currently undergoing redevelopment into a luxurious and intimate townhouse hotel.

King Street Townhouse will have 40 bedrooms and suites, Tavern bar and restaurant, an afternoon tea room, a roof garden plus a rooftop spa pool, treatment rooms and gym. The hotel will also include conference and event space for around 170 delegates.

Eclectic’s existing portfolio includes Great John Street Hotel also in central Manchester plus Didsbury House and Eleven Didsbury Park both in the south Manchester suburb of Didsbury.

Details:  www.kingstreettownhouse.co.uk

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Published: 20 March 2015

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The group behind Hatters Hostels chain has secured funding for a major refurbishment programme. The group is named after its first site, a former bowler hat factory in Newton Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Hatters Hostels now has four properties, two in Manchester and one each in Liverpool and Birmingham. The investment will include upgrading the properties and the development of new bar facilities in Birmingham and Liverpool.

Hatters Hostels offers a range of accommodation from en-suite single,  double and twin-bedded rooms, each equipped with a plasma television, clean towels, fresh bed linen and secure keycard access  to dormitories  sleeping from four to 14 people and even larger new style ‘pod dorms’.  Hatters Hostels offer a free breakfast, free wi-fi and 24hour check-in/security.

Hatters at Newton Street is now a 160 bed hostel and a five minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly station. Hatters at Hilton Chambers, also in central Manchester, is a ‘boutique’ style hostel in Hilton Street.

Hatters Birmingham is based in the Grade II-listed Vaughton Gothic Works in Livery Street in the city's Jewellery Quarter. It is the former silverware factory which created the original FA Cup.

Hatters Hostel Liverpool is the largest property with 300 beds and is located in a Victorian building in Mount Pleasant, five minutes from Liverpool Lime Street station.

Details:   www.hattershostels.com

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Published: 19 March 2015

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Kings Place Events, the arts venue at Kings Cross in London, plan to open new space, the Gallery Room, at the beginning of May 2015.

The Gallery Room will be situated on the mezzanine level of Kings Place. It will feature marble flooring, a 75” plasma screen and hi-spec I.T. capabilities, an inbuilt cloakroom as well as a specialist lighting system allowing for colour washes and available for corporate branding. The Gallery Room will seat up to 40 guests for dinner and up to 60 delegates for a theatre style meeting.

The Gallery Room will join other meeting and banqueting facilities at Kings Place including two auditoriums, two art galleries, Rotunda bar and restaurant, a cafe and a selection of meeting and event spaces.

Kings Place is a five minute walk from Kings Cross St Pancras stations and overlooks the Regent’s Canal.

Details:   www.kingsplaceevents.co.uk

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Published: 19 March 2015

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Ognisko Restaurant is on the ground floor of the Polish Hearth Club, an elegant Victorian mansion house in Exhibition Road, South Kensington.

Ognisko Restaurant also has a large events space on the first floor available for parties and corporate events. The room will accommodate up to 150 delegates theatre style and will subdivide into two smaller spaces seating 40 and 80 delegates. A PA system, plasma screen and projector are also available.

The entire venue can be hired out including the main restaurant and the attached garden terrace.

Neighbours of Ognisko Restaurant in Exhibition Road include several world-class museums, including the Natural History Museum, Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is a five minute walk from South Kensington tube station.

Details:  www.ogniskorestaurant.co.uk

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Published: 18 March 2015

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