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Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

Mercure Leeds Centre is set to open this...

Indigo coming to Chester

Indigo coming to Chester

Construction has started on the new...

Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

Dalata Hotel Group is planning to open a new...

Dalata plan new London Hotel

Dalata plan new London Hotel

Dalata Hotel Group will be the operators of a...

New Hotel opens in Glasgow

New Hotel opens in Glasgow

  A new hotel has just opened in...

  • Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

    Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

  • Indigo coming to Chester

    Indigo coming to Chester

  • Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

    Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

  • Dalata plan new London Hotel

    Dalata plan new London Hotel

  • New Hotel opens in Glasgow

    New Hotel opens in Glasgow


Puttshack is a new high-tech indoor mini-golf experience which opens its first site at Westfield London in White City in March 2018. 

Puttshack will feature four interactive and innovative nine hole courses in a total 750-capacity venue. Puttshack will also include a rum bar and a restaurant.

Puttshack is being billed as the world’s only “super-tech” mini-golf centre. A mini-computer equipped with new tracking technology will be embedded in each ball and screens will show video highlights.

There will also be “interactive quiz” holes and a pinball-style challenge.

Exclusive areas plus all four courses at Puttshack will available to book for corporate groups of between 10-110 guests - with food and drink options.

Stations near to Westfield include Shepherd’s Bush overground and Shepherd’s Bush tube station as well as Shepherd’s Bush Market and Wood Lane tube stations.

Details: https://www.puttshack.com/



Z Tottenham Court Road will be the next Z Hotel to open in London.  

Z Tottenham Court Road is scheduled to open in April 2018 with 121 bedrooms.

Z Tottenham Court Road will be housed in a former office building in Poland Street in the heart of Soho - a couple of minutes’ walk from Tottenham Court Road's new Crossrail station on Oxford Street.

Expect small bedrooms but well designed and equipped with an en-suite shower room, crisp bed linen, Samsung 49” HD TV with a full selection of Sky channels and BT Sport plus complimentary wi-fi – with ‘out-of town’ room rates.

Z Tottenham Court Road will be the seventh Z Hotel to open in London. It joins Z Hotels in: Soho, Victoria, Piccadilly, Shoreditch, City and Gloucester Place. They will be joined later this year by number eight - Z Covent Garden.

Details: http://www.thezhotels.com/


Macdonald Hotels & Resorts is planning a £2.5million revamp of its Vital Health and Wellbeing Clubs in 16 of its hotels across the UK. 

The hotel group's chain of Vital Health and Wellbeing Clubs will be fitted with the latest gym technology.

The revamp programme started at Macdonald Inchrya Hotel & Spa in Falkirk last month.

It finishes in Macdonald Houstoun House Hotel in Livingston in the coming few weeks.

The 16 clubs in the upgrade programme include those at:

Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa, Stirling; Macdonald Crutherland House Hotel & Spa, Glasgow; Macdonald Marine Hotel & Spa, North Berwick; Macdonald Holyrood Hotel, Edinburgh; Macdonald Houstoun House, Edinburgh; Macdonald Cardrona Hotel, Peebles; Macdonald Kilhey Court Hotel & Resort, Wigan; Macdonald Craxton Wood Hotel & Spa, Chester; Macdonald Portal Hotel, Golf & Spa, Chester; Macdonald Hill Valley Hotel, Golf & Spa, Shropshire; Macdonald Alveston Manor Hotel, Stratford on Avon; Macdonald Elmers Court Hotel & Resort, The New Forest; Macdonald Botley Park Hotel & Spa, Southampton; Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa, Ascot; Macdonald Frimley Hall Hotel & Spa, Camberley; Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, Bath.

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


The official ‘topping out’ ceremony of a new hotel at Doncaster Racecourse has just taken place.  

The ceremony marks completion of the main structure of the new Hilton Garden Inn Doncaster Racecourse.

Hilton Garden Inn Doncaster Racecourse is now expected to open summer 2018.

Hilton Garden Inn Doncaster Racecourse will have 154 bedrooms, many with panoramic views across the racecourse. The hotel will have a bistro restaurant and bar. Events facilities will include the main Garden Suite accommodating up to 500 guests.

The events space will be available for corporate and leisure race-day hospitality as well as for meetings and events on non-race days.

Details: https://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/our-racecourse/doncaster-hilton-hotel/


Kettner’s French restaurant originally opened in London’s Soho back in 1867.

It has just remerged following a total revamp as Kettner’s Townhouse with bedrooms added.

Kettner’s Townhouse comprises a restaurant, a Champagne bar plus a 33-bedroom hotel.  

Historic details of the original Georgian building including the plasterwork, paneling and mosaic flooring have all been preserved and enhanced.

Bedrooms are designed along the lines of a 1920’s French boudoir.

The bedrooms range from the smallest - a ‘Tiny’ room - approximately 17sq-mt and furnished with a double bed and an en-suite bathroom with a walk-in rainforest shower.

At the other end of the scale, the ‘Jacobean’ Suite at 80 sq-mt overlooks Greek Street and features a living and dining area as well as a purpose-built bathroom pod.

The restaurant will continue to serve traditional French food using locally sourced ingredients.

Kettner’s was one of the first restaurants in London to serve French food. Legend has it that King Edward VII courted his mistress, actress Lillie Langtry, in the restaurant’s private dining rooms.

Kettner’s remained open through both World Wars. Its guest list has included: Sir Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, Bing Crosby and Margaret Thatcher.

Details: http://kettnerstownhouse.com/