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Virgin Hotels are planning to open their first hotel in the UK in Edinburgh.

Virgin Edinburgh Hotel will be located in the landmark India Buildings at 1-6 Victoria Street in Edinburgh’s Old Town - just steps from the city’s Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle.

Virgin Edinburgh Hotel is expected to open in 2020 with 225 bedrooms.

Virgin Hotels promise ‘a comfy bed, space to work, a social space to relax and superior service’ plus ‘free wifi, no cancellation fees, and early check-in or late check-out without penalties’.

The first Virgin Hotel opened in Chicago in 2015. The group has plans to open hotels in New Orleans, Silicon Valley and Palm Springs. Hotels in San Francisco, Nashville, Dallas and New York City are currently under construction, slated to open over the next two years. Virgin Hotels San Francisco will be the next one to open its doors in summer 2018.

Details: https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/announcing-virgin-hotelsedinburgh?fb_comment_id=1672525066103874_1673315062691541#f601b5f617b309

Details: Published: 05 February 2018; Hits: 781

Technology-focused hotel chain, Yotel, has announced the launch of its serviced apartment: Yotel Pad.

Yotel Pad will incorporate existing hotel features including an adjustable smart bed.

It will also feature a club lounge for co-working, meetings and entertaining - fitted with the group’s signature Technowall system.

Communal areas and amenities will include 24/7 gyms, bike and gear storage, Amazon lockers, laundry, home cinema and a library.

The apartments will offer 'perfectly designed living solutions' by optimising the limited space in apartments with sizes starting from a mere 20 sq-mt.

Yotel Pads are not due to land in the UK just yet. However, the group is set to launch globally with five projects already confirmed in North America, Europe (in Geneva) and the Middle East.

The first Yotel Pad will open at Park City Mountain in Utah, the largest ski resort in the United States.

Details: https://www.yotelpad.com/

Details: Published: 02 February 2018; Hits: 809

Langdale Chase Hotel, Windermere in the Lake District has been awarded a four star AA rating and two AA Rosettes.

Langdale Chase Hotel is now part of Thwaites Hotels. The brewery-based group added the hotel to its portfolio last year. They have refurbished the bedrooms and improved the hotel’s wi-fi reception.

Langdale Chase Hotel has 29 bedrooms, an eight-bedroom lake house, a boat house and two jetties.

Langdale Chase Hotel is set in six acres of landscaped gardens, on the shore of Lake Windermere, boasting mountain and fell views – three reasons why it has secured the title of ‘Best View in Britain’.

Meeting-wise, the Oak Room at Langdale Chase Hotel will seat up to 18 delegates in either boardroom or ‘U’ shape. The Small Sitting Room will seat up to ten delegates. There is free wi-fi throughout the hotel. Langdale Chase offers plenty of team building activities including fell walking and lake-based activities.

Langdale Chase Hotel is located on the A591, three miles north of Windermere village and two miles south of Ambleside.

Details: http://langdalechase.co.uk/

Details: Published: 01 February 2018; Hits: 767

Room 2 Southampton is a new aparthotel opening in Southampton in March 2018 and housed in a former office building, which dates from the 1990's.

Room 2 Southampton has been designed by Project Orange – a Shoreditch-based design studio with a focus on ‘design, comfort and value’.

The interior features are not dissimilar to those found on board traditional cruise liners, a nod towards the importance of Southampton in trans-Atlantic travel.

Room 2 has 71 studio rooms each with a fully equipped kitchen, work table, rainfall showers, free wi-fi, screen mirroring TV, a king sized bed and air conditioning.

A selection of rooms feature ‘mezzanine top decks’ for flexible stays accommodating families, children and sharers.

The public area on the ground floor is designed as a space to work, meet and relax. A ‘grab and go’ coffee bar operates during the day and turns into a bar in the evening.

Room 2 is located at 1-8 Queens Terrace in Southampton.

Room 2 plan to open their next aparthotel in Chiswick in London

Details: http://www.projectorange.com/projects/view/room2

Details: Published: 02 February 2018; Hits: 749

Manchester United’s ‘Class of ’92’ players have secured planning approval to create the University Academy ’92 in Manchester.

The ‘Class of 92’ refers to former Manchester United teammates Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville.

University Academy ’92 is a new university planned in Manchester. It would be created in and around the existing Kellogg’s building in Talbot Road in Manchester. The development would also create a new hotel plus a leisure centre and apartments.

If all goes to plan the new university, which will be linked with Lancaster University, will offer qualifications to students in business, media and sport.

University Academy ’92 is hoping open its doors in September 2019.

Details: https://www.ua92.ac.uk/