Hotel & Venue News

Well Met Conferencing, the conferencing office for Leeds Beckett University, will be opening their newest venue - Cloth Hall Court - in summer 2017.

Cloth Hall Court is the refurbishment of a classic historic building in the centre of Leeds. It will house a standalone conference centre purpose built for corporate events

Cloth Hall Court will include ten meeting rooms over four floors with the largest room, the Herringbone Suite, seating up to 300 delegates theatre style. All meeting rooms will be equipped with state-of-the-art AV technology, digital flipcharts, free superfast wi-fi and, unusually for a city centre venue, VIP parking on-site.

Taking influence from the building’s textile heritage, rooms will be themed with cloth in mind. The room names include: Tweed, Paisley, Denim and Corduroy.

Cloth Hall Court is located in Quebec Street just behind City Square in the centre of Leeds and is a stone’s throw from the Leeds City Station.

Details: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/conferencing/our-venues/cloth-hall-court/

Details: Published: 12 October 2016; Hits: 483

81 million meals, 27 million pastries and half a million bottles of Champagne - all in a year of luxury dining

IHG has revealed what it takes to deliver five-star service around the clock at its 183 InterContinental Hotels & Resorts properties around the globe.

The insight into its culinary offering, as part of the brand’s 70th anniversary celebrations.

A year of luxury dining in numbers:
•81 million meals served
•27 million pastries made for guests
•500,000 bottles of Champagne are popped
•400kg of honey is produced by bees at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
•166 years is the oldest bottle of vintage wine available for guests to order
•9 Michelin starred restaurants across the InterContinental brand portfolio

With ten new Intercontinental Hotels opening in the past year including new hotels in London, Dubai, Chennai, and Beijing, as well as the reopening of the InterContinental New York Barclay earlier this year, expect the catalogue to grow in size in future.

Full article: https://www.ihgplc.com/en/news-and-media/news-releases/2016/intercontinental-dining-excellence

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Starwood Capital Group has appointed Cycas Hospitality to manage its four extended-stay hotels in London.

The extended-stay hotels are located in Earls Court Kensington; London Bridge; Bermondsey and Tower Bridge.

The portfolio comprises 640 studios and one/two-bedroom open plan suites which are currently undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment. This is due to be completed by mid-2017.

Cycas Hospitality and Starwood Capital will focus initially on brand strategy. However, both groups will reveal their ambitious launch plan later in the year.

Cycas Hospitality currently manage Staybridge Suites hotels in Vauxhall London and London Stratford City (pictured). They also manage the Holiday Inn Stratford City in London and the Heathrow Hotel on Bath Road.

New projects currently under construction include a Crowne Plaza/Staybridge Suites on Oxford Road in Manchester.

Details: http://cycashospitality.com/

Details: Published: 11 October 2016; Hits: 1244

The first phase of the new luxury hotel, Beaverbrooks, has just opened near Leatherhead in Surrey. The property, previously known as Cherkley Court, was the former home of newspaper magnate and politician Lord Beaverbrook.

The first phase is the Garden House which includes 11 bedrooms, a 55-seater restaurant and a cookery school.

The 18-hole golf course created on the 380-acre Beaverbrook estate is now open and the new club house will be opening later this month.

The main Grade-II-listed French chateaux-style mansion will reopen next year with 18 bedrooms, a bar, a restaurant and screening room. Leisure facilities will include a spa, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool plus six treatment rooms.

Beaverbrooks plan to open a further six suites in the grounds in 2017.

Details: Published: 11 October 2016; Hits: 492

Hotel Indigo London – Kensington has just opened a new meeting room available for networking events, private lunches and dinners as well as meetings.

The 22 sq-ft room will seat up to 12 delegates on leather chairs. There is plenty of natural daylight.

The room includes a Lavazza coffee machine, a blackboard wall for brainstorming and a 60 inch flat screen TV with Bluetooth connection.

Hotel Indigo London – Kensington also has a private dining room in their newly opened Theo Randall Restaurant which will cater for up to 20 guests for seated dining and up to 30 for a reception.

Hotel Indigo London Kensington has 100 bedrooms. It is located in Barkston Gardens in South Kensington, a short walk from Earls Court tube station.

Details: https://www.ihg.com/hotelindigo/hotels/gb/en/london/lonlk/hoteldetail