Hotel & Venue News

The new Maldron Hotel Belfast City has just opened in the heart of Belfast with 237 bedrooms.

Maldron Hotel Belfast City features its signature Grain and Grill restaurant plus a bar.

Bedrooms range from standard doubles or twins to family rooms and executive doubles. All bedrooms are modern, stylish and air-conditioned.

The bedrooms are equipped with a large flat screen TV, a laptop safe, tea/coffee making facilities, free wi-fi and an oversized shower.

Maldron Hotel Belfast City has five meeting rooms with the largest seating up to 76 delegates for a theatre style meeting.

Maldron Hotel Belfast City is located in Brunswick Street a short walk from Great Victoria station. Belfast International Airport and George Best Airport bus services both deliver guests within 0.1mile of the hotel.

Details: https://www.maldronhotelbelfastcity.com/

Details: Published: 15 March 2018; Hits: 808

Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport has opened a new 40-bedroom extension. The hotel now has 160 bedrooms.

The new bedrooms are part of a £3.5million extensive upgrade at Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport.

A complete ground floor upgrade has been carried out. Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport now includes three new fully equipped meeting and events rooms. Two rooms combine to seat up to 60 delegates theatre style with the third room, a boardroom, for 18 delegates.

Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport is located at Exeter Airport - a three-minute drive from the M5 J29 and A30. It is 15 minutes from Exeter city centre and Exeter St. Davids station.

Details: http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/hampton-by-hilton-exeter-airport-EXTAPHX/index.html

Details: Published: 12 March 2018; Hits: 866

Plans to convert Methodist Central Hall in Corporation Street in the centre of Birmingham into a new hotel have been given the green light.

The planned scheme will see the conversion of the building into a 147-bedroom hotel plus a 75-bedroom apart-hotel.

The hotel will be operated by US-brand Dream Hotels. The apartment-hotel will be operated by Stow-Away.

The Methodist Hall will also have a three-storey roof extension with a nightclub planned on its upper levels.

Methodist Central Hall dates from 1904. The Grade-II listed building has spent its recent years as a night club but finally closed its doors in February 2017 since when it has been vacant.

The building is currently on Historic England's 'Heritage at Risk' register.

Methodist Central Hall is located in the heart of central Birmingham close to major road and rail links and a short walk from the main commercial centre of Birmingham

Details: Published: 09 March 2018; Hits: 799

Travelodge has published details of the next stage of its UK expansion programme.

The group is aiming to open 20 new hotels with over 1,900 bedrooms across the UK in 2018.

The new hotels will serve prime business locations and will feature the new Travelodge ‘SuperRooms’.

A further 400 SuperRooms are also planned in seven Travelodge hotels in London and regional cities including Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester and York.

The expansion plans will include the opening of London City Travelodge, the group’s new flagship hotel which is expected to open summer 2018. London City Travelodge will have 395 bedrooms and an on-site restaurant.

London City Travelodge is located in Middlesex Street in the heart of the City and is within walking distance of the Tower of London and London Bridge.

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

Details: Published: 12 March 2018; Hits: 832

Developer, Urban & Civic, has published its proposals for the future of the Renaissance Hotel site in Manchester city centre.

Plans include new a five-star hotel, 600 apartments plus retail and public buildings.

Proposals would see the demolition of the existing Renaissance Manchester City Centre and its on-site car park.

It would be replaced by three separate buildings.

The plans would open up the site and incorporate views across the River Irwell to Manchester Cathedral.

The site would also include a central courtyard which would be the focal point for restaurants and bars.

The new five-star hotel would have around 250 bedrooms alongside conferencing and leisure facilities with retail and leisure outlets on the ground floor.

Renaissance Manchester City Centre is located at the junction of Deansgate, Market Street and Blackfriars in the heart of central Manchester.

The site has long been earmarked for redevelopment. Former site owners submitted a planning application back in 2008 to build 248 apartments, a 250-bed hotel, 280,000 sq-ft of offices and 60,000 sq-ft of retail. The plan was approved in 2009 but never progressed.

Meanwhile the other proposed five-star hotel development in Manchester is the St Michael’s scheme. This is a £200million mixed use scheme in the centre of Manchester and masterminded by ex-Manchester United footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs.

Local councillors have just given their backing to the scheme and the project is now on the desk of the Housing Minister in London.