Hotel & Venue News

A 1920s warehouse in Shudehill, the gateway to Manchester’s Northern Quarter, could be the site of a new Zoku aparthotel.

The warehouse which was built in the 1920s has been empty for the last 20 years.

Plans would see its demolition with a replacement 13-storey aparthotel. It would be operated by Amsterdam-based aparthotel operator Zoku.

Zoku has been involved from the outset and the development will be designed to suit their specific requirements whilst still respecting the scale and character of Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

The proposals will be considered by members of Manchester council's planning committee in the next few months.

Details: https://livezoku.com/

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The Mandrake is a new independent boutique hotel opening August 2017 in London’s Fitzrovia.

The Mandrake will house 34 stylish and eclectic bedrooms, with three luxury suites and a penthouse. The rooms will be set across four floors, rising up from a central courtyard.

Art will be at the forefront in The Mandrake. As well as displaying an enviable art collection, the hotel will have its own interactive Artist in Residence programe which will feature emerging and established artists and performers.

French restaurateurs, Charles Pelletier and Fred Peneau, will be opening their first London venture in The Mandrake, offering refined dining using modern French techniques. The 80-cover restaurant will also feature a 16-person private dining room.

The Mandrake Hotel is located in Newman Street, off Oxford Street and is just a short walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station.

Details: http://www.themandrake.com/

Victory House Hotel London Leicester Square – MGallery by Sofitel also opens in August located amidst London’s leading theatres. Overlooking London's Leicester Square, Victory House Hotel will offers 86 stylish and elegant bedrooms.

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A multimillion-pound transformation plan has been submitted by The Belfry Hotel and Resort in Wishaw to North Warwickshire Borough Council.

The Belfry’s plans include the construction of a new four-storey wing with 72 bedrooms plus new conference rooms.

The Belfry’s Bel-Air nightclub would also be converted into a spa with views over the golf course and would include a further 40 new boutique-style bedrooms, an expanded hotel lobby and a new 6,996 sq-ft ballroom to host up to 500 people.

Additional leisure facilities would feature a new water park incorporating pools and attractions, including a lazy river and water slides.

The Belfry Hotel opened in the 1960s and is known around the world for hosted the Ryder Cup, a biennial team golf competition between Europe and the US.

The Belfry Hotel and Resort is set in 500 acres of open countryside on the outskirts of Birmingham.

It currently has 319 bedrooms and suites, two restaurants and two bars, 22 conference and events suites, a state-of-the-art leisure club and a luxury spa, a PGA golf academy, an onsite golf shop and three world-class golf courses.

Details: http://www.thebelfry.co.uk/

Details: Published: 04 August 2017; Hits: 710

Berlin-based Leonardo Hotels has just acquired five hotels in Scotland.

The group has only recently opened its first hotel in Scotland, the Leonardo Royal Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh. It opened with 282 bedrooms in Morrison Link close to Edinburgh Haymarket station earlier this summer.

The five properties include another two in Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Hotel and Edinburgh Capital (pictured).

The other hotels are the Glasgow Pond Hotel, the Huntingtower Hotel in Perth and the Speedbird Inn alongside Aberdeen Airport.

The acquisition adds 536 bedrooms to the group’s portfolio. The group now owns more than 80 hotels in over 40 locations including the 230-bedroom Leonardo Hotel London Heathrow Airport, it’s only other UK hotel.

Details: https://www.leonardo-hotels.com/

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University of Sheffield is currently investing £2million transforming its 1990s student residence - Jonas Court - at its Endcliffe Village campus into a 79-bedroom Jonas Hotel.

Jonas Hotel is expected to comprise two floors with 57 rooms of student hotel accommodation on one floor and 23 bedrooms of general hotel accommodation on the other.

The en-suite hotels rooms will be available for the public and will share the communal facilities on the ground floor including an informal café, lounge space, quiet study space and games areas.

Jonas Hotel promises to be stylish and quirky. It will feature a mural created by a local graffiti artist focussing on Sheffield's history and cultural icons.

The wall art features city icons including the cathedral, a be-spectacled Jarvis Cocker, a bottle of Henderson’s Relish and images of the Tinsley Cooling Towers which were demolished in 2008. There is also a penny coin to symbolise the public appeal which funded the creation of Sheffield University in 1904.

Jonas Hotel is set to open in August 2017.

Details: http://www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/visit/news/2017/jul/6/new-hotel-business-model-launching-in-sheffield