Grand Central Hotel will have 300 bedrooms over 23 storeys which will make it the largest hotel in Northern Ireland. 

It will be located on the site of the original Grand Central Hotel which opened in 1893 in Royal Avenue in the centre of Belfast.

Grand Central Hotel will feature the Seahorse Bar & Bistro on the first floor.

Business-wise Grand Central Hotel will include two conference suites, three meeting rooms plus the Panorama Lounge for private receptions of up to 100 guests.

Grand Central Hotel will become the seventh hotel in the Hastings Hotels portfolio. It will join the Europa Hotel, the Stormont Hotel and the Culloden Estate and Spa - all in and around Belfast.

Details: https://www.hastingshotels.com/blog.html/post/grand-central-first-look

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Published: 27 March 2018

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The £7.2million "Being Brunel" museum opens alongside Brunel’s SS Great Britain on Bristol’s harbourside.

"Being Brunel" adds three historic events spaces to the extensive events facilities already available on SS Great Britain and around Bristol’s Great Western Dockyard.

Rooms include a re-creation of Brunel’s dining room, the Great Western Steamship Company boardroom and Brunel’s London Duke Street office. 

Details: http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/about-us/being-brunel

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Published: 23 March 2018

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L’oscar will be located in a former Bloomsbury Baptist Church, in Holborn. Its name pays tribute to the Irish writer Oscar Wilde.

The Baptistchurch dates from the early 20th century and retains some of its original tiling, flooring, and ornately decorated ceilings. In recent years it has fallen into dereliction and has now remained empty for the last ten years.

The original building was five storeys high. The new hotel has added two more.

L’oscar will open with just 39 individually designed bedrooms with a ‘luxurious turn-of-the-century feel and decorated with silk, velvet and damasks’.

L’oscar will feature the Baptist Grill restaurant located in the original octagonal 1903 chapel, topped with a glass dome.

The Committee Room, with its original stucco ceiling will form the events space at L’oscar.

L’oscar hotel is located in Southampton Row, a short walk from Holborn station.

Details: https://www.loscar.com/

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The new spa forms part of the hotel’s extensive renovation programme.

The spa’s redesign takes inspiration from traditional Chinese fashion and symbolism.  It will feature a new Oriental Suite with two massage beds and a Rasul water temple. It will join the spa’s 14 treatment rooms.

In addition to the spa treatment rooms, there will be a room for traditional ASANTE Chinese Medicine consultations and treatments plus two additional beauty rooms and a new PilatesPT studio.

The fitness centre at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London features a range of high-tech work-out equipment as well as a 17-metre heated indoor swimming pool.

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London overlooks Hyde Park in central London. In addition to its spa, health and beauty treatments, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park also offers two award-winning restaurants including Bar Boulud, London and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.

Details: https://www.mandarinoriental.com/media/press-releases/london-new-spa.aspx

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Published: 23 March 2018

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