Moves are afoot to build a new Moxy Hotel in Chester. 

Moxy Hotels, part of the Marriott Hotels chain, is a brand that seeks to cater for the younger traveller seeking a more modern and technologically innovative service.

Moxy Chester would have 194 bedrooms, a lobby and reception as well as leisure facilities.

Plans have been submitted to construct the hotel on the former Broughton Retail Centre site in Chester.

The former retail centre is already home to a new Waitrose store as well as a pedestrian/cyclist bridge over the Shropshire Union Canal.

Currently there are three Moxy hotels in the UK: one in Aberdeen and two in London, one at ExCeL and the other in Stratford.  

Two new Moxy Hotels open shortly. Moxy London Heathrow Airport is scheduled to open in March. Moxy Glasgow Collegelands is scheduled for a May 2018 opening.

Plans have also been published for possible new Moxy Hotels in Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.

Details: http://moxy-hotels.marriott.com/en

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Published: 26 January 2018

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Another week and plans for yet another new hotel in Manchester have been published.

The latest scheme would see a 154-bedroom hotel together with an 88-unit aparthotel developed in Manchester’s Cornbrook area.

The site in question is largely derelict and plans would see the demolition of existing buildings as well as improving access to nearby Cornbrook Metrolink station.

Should planning be secured, construction could start as early as this summer

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Published: 25 January 2018

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The Grand Hotel and Spa in York has started to operate a helicopter transfer service to collect and drop-off guests. 

The Grand Hotel and Spa will be using two helicopters for this service – a four-seat Robinson R44 and a five-seat Bell 206 Jet Ranger.

The helicopter will pick up guests from the grounds of their homes, or land nearby, or Manchester Airport and fly them to York.

The hotel’s chauffeur service will then collect them from the drop-off point within the grounds of York Racecourse, a five-minute drive away from the hotel.

The Grand Hotel and Spa is the only five-star rated hotel in York.

The hotel is set to almost double in size with the opening of 100 new guest rooms in March 2018. A new luxury executive lounge and arrivals lounge as well as a new restaurant are also part of the £15million expansion project.

For guests preferring a more traditional means of arrival, the Grand Hotel and Spa is located alongside York’s historic wall with its own car park and within a five minute walk of York Station.

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

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Published: 26 January 2018

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A series of property deals in London have resulted in the PPHE Hotel Group finding themselves as potential operators of a new hotel planned in London.

The hotel will be art’otel London Hoxton.

art’otel London Hoxton will have 318 bedrooms and include a top-floor restaurant and bar, a spa plus a publicly accessible arts centre.

The art centre will include an art gallery, space for video artists and photographic studios.

PPHE owns, leases, develops and operates upper scale lifestyle hotels, mainly in Europe.

The site of the new art’otel London Hoxton is near Old Street and Great Eastern Street close to the City of London.

Subject to the deal being rubber-stamped in March,construction is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2018.

When it opens, art’otel London Hoxton will join its sister hotel - art’otel Battersea Power Station, which is currently under construction and expected to open in 2019.

art’otel Battersea Power Station will be set around the Grade II-listed Battersea Power Station. It will have 160 bedrooms and will feature a roof garden designed by the New York High Line team.

Details: http://www.pphe.com/development/development-pipeline

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Published: 25 January 2018

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