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Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

Mercure Leeds Centre is set to open this...

Indigo coming to Chester

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Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

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New Hotel opens in Glasgow

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Mercure Leeds Centre opens September
Indigo coming to Chester
Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel
Dalata plan new London Hotel
New Hotel opens in Glasgow

Tune Hotels, the Asian-based budget hotel chain, plans to add 25 new properties in the UK by the end of the decade. The group already has five hotels in London with a sixth opening in Canary Wharf (picture) in the New Year plus one in Edinburgh and one in Newcastle.

Tune Hotels are now targeting business cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds as well as more sites in London and university cities. Their other hotels are mainly in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Tune Hotels feature ‘space-efficient’, minimally-priced bedrooms with a good quality bed and a powerful hot shower with a ‘pay as you use’ system in place for optional extras i.e. for a towel, a television or wi-fi. The Tune concept is based on the proposition that business and leisure guests spend little time in their rooms but above all want a good night sleep.

Details: www.tunehotels.com

Details: Published: 20 October 2014; Hits: 1450

Urban Villa Brentford in west London will open on 9 January 2015 and will start taking bookings this November. Urban Villa Brentford is a new extended-stay 100-apartment hotel located in a 25-storey block in the Great West Quarter (GWQ) scheme close to Chiswick High Street in Brentford. The scheme is a mixed-use development which also includes the new and recently opened Novotel London Brentford.

Urban Villa Brentford will feature a combined reception and bar. The apartments will be fully equipped and will include a kitchen and living room.

Urban Villa's parent company, Union Hanover, has also submitted plans for a new Urban Villa in Edinburgh. This will be a 180 apartment hotel overlooking the Union Canal Basin in Freer Street in Edinburgh. It will include a mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments plus four rooftop apartments.

Details: www.unionhanover.com

Details: Published: 20 October 2014; Hits: 2003

Regus, providers of flexible workspace and meeting facilities, has opened its tenth business centre in Manchester/Salford, within the newly refurbished Lowry Mill development in Swinton.

The centre, occupying the second floor, provides a range services including day offices, full-time serviced offices and meeting rooms, as well as a reception, business support services and virtual offices.

Lowry Mill is located in Lees Street with convenient access to the M60 and just twenty minutes north of city centre Manchester.

Details: www.regus.co.uk

Details: Published: 16 October 2014; Hits: 1789

Crescent Turner Hotel has just opened in Whitstable, Kent with 18 boutique and individually styled bedrooms, many with sea views. The hotel is located on Wraik Hill, overlooking the Kent coast.
Crescent Turner has a restaurant, a bar, a terrace area and gardens plus its own beach hut on Whitstable beach, which guests can reserve.

Further bedrooms and a cookery academy are planned in the next phase of the hotel's development.

Crescent Turner Hotel is operated by Bespoke Hotels.

Details: www.bespokehotels.com

Details: Published: 20 October 2014; Hits: 1329

A new £7million 100-bedroom hotel is to be built at Humberside Airport following approved by North East Lincolnshire Council. The hotel will include a restaurant, bar and gym. It will be located just off the A18 link road to Grimsby and alongside the existing hotel Nightel Humber, which services offshore workers in the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors.

Construction work is expected to begin in the coming weeks, with an opening scheduled for summer 2015. Several international hotel brands are said to be interested in operating the site and an announcement is expected soon.

Details: www.hulldailymail.co.uk