Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire is set to open its new event space - Ochil House - in May 2018.  

Ochil House will include seven flexible rooms which can be booked either individually or as one exclusive space for a range of meetings, events or as private dining rooms.

Ochil House will accommodate up to 100 guests.

The main feature room in Ochil House will be the Drawing Room with loads of natural lights and some of the best views in the hotel - and with private access to the Garden Café Lawn.

The Drawing room will seat up to 70 guests for a private dinner.

The various rooms in Ochil House all draw their inspiration from original rooms within Gleneagles Hotel.

The Assembly Room, for example, will offer flexible meeting space comprising three separate rooms – The Reading Room, The Writing Room and The Card Room – for groups between ten and 16 delegates. Partition walls will allow the creation of one larger room accommodating groups of up to 60.

All groups will have access to a communal pantry and an informal kitchen breakout space.

The communal pantry is designed as a drop-in space with newspapers and magazines, snacks, pastries, coffees and teas available all day. Breakout space can be arranged around the kitchen table which will also be available to book exclusively for evening functions.

Gleneagles Hotel retains its five-star status. It remains a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. It also features three championship golf courses, an award-winning spa and the only restaurant in Scotland to hold two Michelin stars.

Gleneagles Hotel is located in Auchterarder in Perthshire.

Details: https://www.gleneagles.com/


Eccleston Square Hotel in central London has just launched a new feature - ‘The Town House’ 

The Town House is a luxuriously appointed, technologically advanced, three-storey, two-bedroom house.

It is available for short to medium stays for a minimum of three nights.

The Town House building dates back to 1835. It has now been fully renovated and decorated in its own distinctive London-chic style; luxuriously furnished and equipped with the very latest technology.

The Town House is spread over 120 sq-mt and sleeps up to four guests.

The Town House has three floors and two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, an open plan fully equipped kitchen plus a dining room and living room.

Patio doors open onto a private courtyard with tables and chairs.

A study room is equipped with an Apple Mac desktop and printer. Each guest-room and living room is equipped with LG Smart TV’s with Apple TV.

The Town House is located in Ebury Bridge Road on the edge of Belgravia and close to thenew Battersea Power Station development.

The Town House is a seven-minute walk from Victoria Station.

Details: https://www.ecclestonsquarehotel.com/townhouse


The new Mercure Bridgwater hotel in Somerset is on course for an August 2018 opening. 

Mercure Bridgwater is a new-build hotel. It will have 119 modern, stylish bedrooms over four floors.

Most rooms will feature floor-to-ceiling windows with some superior rooms offering balconies with views across the Somerset countryside.

Mercure Bridgwater will feature a Marco Pierre White Steakhouse. Leisure facilities will include a well-equipped gym.

Mercure Bridgwater will have two meetings rooms; one in permanent boardroom setup for up to 16 delegates. The other will be a flexible room which can be configured in various layouts and will seat up to 30 delegates theatre style.

Mercure Bridgwater will be the only four-star hotel in the town.

Mercure Bridgwater is located in the centre of Bridgwater, two miles from the M5 at junction 24 and 11 miles from Hinkley Point C, the new power station currently under construction.

Details: https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-9861-mercure-bridgwater-hotel-opening-august-2018/index.shtml


Cromlix hotel owned by Andy Murray has been awarded Five Gold Stars following an inspection by VisitScotland.  

Cromlix has thus become one of only two Five Gold-Star country house hotels in Scotland.

Cromlixis  an original Victorian country house set in 34 acres of woodlands and garden. It became a hotel initially in 1981 and was purchased by Murray at the start of 2013.

He converted the property into a luxury 15-bedroom and gate lodge hotel - and boasting a restaurant overseen by chef Albert Roux.

Cromlix is located three miles from Dunblane in Perthshire.

Details: https://cromlix.com/


thestudioleeds completed an expansion of its meeting and training facilities at the end of last year.  

thestudioleeds now occupies both the seventh and eighth floor of the Riverside West building in Leeds.

The expansion has allowed thestudioleeds to add 7,000 sq-ft of meeting space in four new state-of-the-art rooms. In effect, the venue has doubled its capacity and now has a total of 11 events rooms

The new rooms are:

Cheer– the second largest room at thestudioleeds sating up to 110 delegates theatre style - with its own private balcony.

Matter– seating up to 82 delegates theatre style with access to an outdoor balcony.

Mind– seating up to 80 delegates theatre style also with access to the outside balcony.

Succeed– seating nine delegates boardroom style – no outside balcony but with plenty of natural daylight.

All the rooms have been fitted with state-of-the-art AV equipment, including integrated sound systems, Apple TV and HDMI data projection.

thestudioLeeds offers unlimited tea and coffee, free wi-fi connection plus award-winning meals cooked on-site with locally sourced ingredients.

Julian Kettleborough, Commercial Director at thestudio commented: “Our expansion has gone exceptionally well and we’re extremely excited that our capacity has increased as a result. Since opening almost two years ago, we’ve had more success than we had ever predicted in this incredible city and we’ve built up a loyal customer base. With only one floor we were restricted on numbers, so had found ourselves having to turn away these supportive customers, which was incredibly hard to do. Now, however, we’ll be able to welcome them back with open arms and deliver our award-winning service to them with rooms tailor made for their requirements.”

thestudioLeeds is located at Riverside West in Whitehall Road in the centre of Leeds – a ten-minute walk from Leeds Central station.

Details: http://studiovenues.co.uk/venues/leeds/