Hotel & Venue News

Kensington Palace Pavilion is a new events venue which opens in the gardens of Kensington Palace in March 2018.

Kensington Palace Pavilion is a glass-fronted building.

The Pavilion will have two main events spaces which will accommodate up to 800 guests across both rooms. Alternatively, it will seat 300 guests for a seated dinner with the option of a separate drinks reception area.

Kensington Palace Pavilion will overlook the Sunken Garden at the palace.

The Pavilion will replace the Orangery at Kensington Palace which is set to close to undergo a three-year-long conservation programme.

Kensington Palace is located in Kensington Gardens in west London – a ten to fifteen-minute walk from either High Street Kensington or Queensway tube stations.

Details: https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/hire-a-venue/

Details: Published: 14 February 2018; Hits: 799

A spring 2018 opening is still on target for the new events facilities at Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Sodexo Prestige Events and Venues has signed a contract with Farnborough International to deliver conference, banqueting and events services at the new centre.

The purpose-built facility boasts more than 20,000sq-mt of flexible events space, including 12,500sq-mt of exhibition space.

The main hall will subdivide with partition walls. The venue will also have drive-in access facilities allowing easy vehicle unloading during event build and derig.

The Conference Centre will host up to 2,500 delegates theatre style. There will be onsite parking for 3,500 cars.

Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre is situated minutes from the M3 motorway and is easily accessible by road, rail and air. The main station is located just over a mile away from the business park. It is 40 miles to central London and 25 miles to Heathrow Airport.

Details: https://www.farnborough.com/

Details: Published: 13 February 2018; Hits: 800

Choice Hotels has added four Yorkshire-based hotels to its UK collection.

The hotels, all former Cedar Court Hotels, are located in Harrogate, Bradford, Wakefield and Huddersfield.

The three hotels in Bradford, Wakefield and Huddersfield have become Clarion Collection hotels.

The former Cedar Court Harrogate Hotel has joined the group’s Ascend Hotel Collection.

Clarion Collection is a grouping of four-star, full-service hotels.

Ascend Hotel Collection is Choice Hotels’ boutique hotel collection

Cedar Court Harrogate Hotel, an Ascend Hotel Collection member: is a Grade II-listed property located a short walk from the town centre. It has 100 bedrooms, a restaurant, fitness club and six meeting and events rooms.

It will be the UK’s third Ascend Hotel Collection member, joining Edinburgh-based The Howard and Channings Hotel.

Cedar Court Bradford, a Clarion Hotel Collection member:is less than five minutes from the centre of Bradford. It has 131 bedrooms, a restaurant, a health club with pool and 12 meeting and events rooms.

Cedar Court Huddersfield a Clarion Hotel Collection member: is located close to the M62. It has 113 bedrooms, a restaurant, a health club with pool and 13 meeting and events rooms.

Cedar Court Wakefield a Clarion Hotel Collection member:is located at junction 39 of the M1 motorway. It has 149 bedrooms, a restaurant, a health club with pool and 18 meeting and events rooms.

Other Choice Hotels brands in the UK include: Clarion, a four-star, full-service hotel; Quality, a three-star rated, full-service hotel, and Comfort, a three-star select-service hotel and the group’s largest brand worldwide.

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

Details: Published: 12 February 2018; Hits: 816

The Eden Project in Cornwall has gone back to the drawing board and improved the design and layout of its planned new hotel.

Planning permission was granted by Cornwall Council for a new 109-bedroom hotel at the Eden Project last February.

This was to be a timber-clad hotel split into two blocks and designed to blend into the countryside with high standards of accessibility, energy efficiency and sustainability.

It was originally expected to open in April 2018.

The resubmitted design will reduce the hotel from two blocks to just the one. This should also reduce the visual impact and ensure it blends in better with the local landscape.

The Eden Project hotel will include events and conference facilities. The hotel will also have classrooms to support Eden’s educational programmes, including its apprenticeship scheme and degree-level courses.

Eden has now submitted an updated plan for consideration by the Council. If the amended plans are approved, construction should begin later this year with a scheduled completion date of January 2020.

Details: http://www.edenproject.com/media/2018/02/new-plans-put-forward-for-eden-project-hotel