Hilton Vienna and Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront have just launched a meetings promotion for May 2014, with several additional benefits for events inquiries.
Organisers can choose between bedroom upgrades, complimentary receptions, on-site office space, or 1 million HHonours Points for events over 50,000 Euros at Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront, or 100,000 Euros at Hilton Vienna.
Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront sits beside the Danube, and can offer 367 bedrooms and suites, with 10 functions spaces, as well as a 344m2 Ballroom, and is just 10 minutes from the city centre.
The Hilton Vienna is located besides Stadtpark, a short walk from the city centre, and is able to offer 579 bedrooms and suites, as well as 2 large ballrooms and 11 smaller function rooms.
Jumeirah Hotels visited the Trinity offices today representing Jumeirah Carlton Towers and Jumeirah Lowndes in London. They have a further 21 hotels located internationally in areas including Dubai, Frankfurt and Majorca! At every Jumeirah Hotel they have the same ethos; Never say no and treat colleagues and clients with respect and integrity. Each member of staff will greet any guest within 3m of them.
An exciting investment at Carlton Towers is their ‘Sushi Box’ in which sits a member of staff that at the push of a button will hand Sushi out of the box! What a novel way of serving food! The bedrooms have also been redecorated in neutral brown, black and cream colors. The hotels Ballroom is due to be totally refurbished in August 2014, it doesn’t need it but as a 5 star hotel they want to keep the standards high. At Carlton Towers the can now offer a range of activities to support a conference including makeover and Martini classes! The hotel are so confident in the food at their restaurant that the classic menu has not changed since 1961 – now that says something!
At Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel they have a hidden gem, they can offer exclusive hire of an outdoor terrace which can hold up to 150 standing, this can be totally exclusive and BBQ’s can be served up there too! This is a boutique hotel with just 1 meeting room holding comfortably 16 boardroom.
Each hotel offers at least two restaurants to choose between and no fewer than three of them have been awarded the highest accolade of three MICHELIN STARS.
The Dorchester is most certainly the most known venue within the group, with the special touches available including an on-site florist. Dorchester collection is perfect for high end, luxury meetings.
The team were delighted to have the Dorchester Collection come in recently. They touched upon all 10 of their properties but primarily focused on their three UK based properties: The iconic The Dorchester, located in the centre of London overlooking Hyde Park, 45 Park Lane, and Coworth Park – a luxurious country house hotel on the borders of Windsor Great Park.
Each hotel offers at least two restaurants to choose between and no fewer than three of them have been awarded the highest accolade of three MICHELIN STARS.
The Dorchester is most certainly the most known venue within the group, with the special touches available including an on-site florist. Dorchester collection is perfect for high end, luxury meetings.
Our recent Dorchester Collection visit
The team were delighted to have the Dorchester Collection come in recently. They touched upon all 10 of their properties but primarily focused on their three UK based properties: The iconic The Dorchester, located in the centre of London overlooking Hyde Park, 45 Park Lane, and Coworth Park – a luxurious country house hotel on the borders of Windsor Great Park.
Each hotel offers at least two restaurants to choose between and no fewer than three of them have been awarded the highest accolade of three MICHELIN STARS.
The Dorchester is most certainly the most known venue within the group, with the special touches available including an on-site florist. Dorchester collection is perfect for high end, luxury meetings.
Berlin braces itself for double conference capacity
Berlin’s hotel landscape is set to grow rapidly over the next two years as Messe Berlin increases its convention capacity.
In Spring, the International Congress Centrum ICC Berlin will close for refurbishment and be temporarily replaced by a new congress and trade fair centre – the CityCube Berlin.
This new, multi-functional congress hall will be able to host events for up to 11,000 participants. It will feature two main floors, flexible wall partitioning, numerous conference rooms and the southern section of the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds nearby.
When the ICC Berlin reopens, Messe Berlin will have almost doubled its available convention capacity and the city’s hotel stock is making serious strides to keep up with the increased requirement.
Since the beginning of the year, tourists staying overnight in Berlin are now required to pay the new Berlin ‘City Tax’, effectively an accommodation tax.
Applicable from 1st January 2014 to all private overnight stays the tax is equivalent to 5% of the room rate and is automatically added to the room bill. Tourists in business travel to Berlin, however, are not obligated to pay the tax if they are able to verify the business nature of their travel.
Etc. Venues visited our offices last week to update the team on exciting news! The group, who currently have 13 venues to offer, will soon be opening 155 Bishopsgate located in the City of London. With a main suite that holds up to 550 plus huge ‘galleria’ space for networking and 50 exhibition stands, etc.venues – 155 Bishopsgate, is destined to create a new type of venue experience.
EEF Venues visited our offices 7 January to tell us all about the new developments that have taken place at their three venues; Broadway House, Engineers House and Woodland Grange. The walls have been painted at Broadway House and Engineers House and the coffee lounge has also been refurbished at Engineers House. Woodland Grange is in its 45th year of hosting conferences and can now claim to successfully host gala dinners in their newly designed restaurant. All 114 bedrooms have been refurbished at Woodland Grange and the new car park is now finished providing 300 spaces.
Following an intensive period of renovation the Alpenhaus Kaprun reopened on the 4th of December. The facility convinces and excites with a unique combination of tradition and modernity.
The facility’s 122 rooms and suites have been available again since the beginning of December, now in a modern alpine style. The entrance and bar areas are completely new, as are the lounge and spa. The hotel director, Tina Maria Verdi, and the architect, Martin Aufschnaiter (Dipl.Ing.), were both keen to retain the building’s authenticity and traditional character. A feeling of ‘nature’ and of remaining ‘down to earth’ can be sensed throughout the whole of this 4-star complex. In the morning guests look forward to a hearty ‘organic’ breakfast, and later relax in the ‘bio sauna’ after a long seminar.
New conference room to open at the start of next year
From 2014 the new conference room of the hotel in Kaprun will again be able to offer plenty of room to participants in seminars and conferences with 270m² of space and the option of dividing the area into 3 smaller units. Five seminar rooms allow ‘Alpenhaus Kaprun’ to provide an ideal framework for successful conferences in the Salzburg countryside.
The new ALPEN.VEDA.SPA
The 1000m² spa area has also been enhanced for guests featuring a new indoor pool, a Jacuzzi, saunas, 2 relaxation zones, a fitness area and 5 treatment rooms – providing perfect facilities and an ideal atmosphere for a relaxing stay. The hotel is particularly proud of the new family sauna in the pool area, and the refreshing circulating Kneipp bath.
Relax in a familiar atmosphere
Two new attractions opened in December 2013. Every year around 44,000 will be welcomed in the new lobby by an open fire, cosy seating groups and a great selection of books to encourage guests to sit back and relax. The redesigned ALPENHAUS.BAR is now the perfect place to celebrate the end of a long seminar day.
Courtesy of the Salzburg Convention Bureau, 23/01/14
Potential London Underground Strike – February 2014
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are due to stage two 48-hour walkouts on 4th and 5th February, and 11th and 12th February in protest against plans to close all ticket offices and axe 750 jobs.
As of 22 January the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) are balloting its members, with the likelihood of co-ordinating industrial action.
It is therefore advisable to consider the potential disruption prior to travelling into London over the affected dates, to arrange for alternative transport or indeed make a call whether to travel at all on the 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th February.
The strengthening pound and local price changes makes the Algarve the best value destination in Europe. Bali is the best value in overall of the 70 destinations surveyed by the Post Office Travel Money Worldwide Holiday Costs Barometer.
Spain was the only country to record a significant price increase, with meal costs rising 22% on the Costa del Sol and New Zealand was the most expensive destination surveyed.
Resorts are cheaper in Cyprus, Greece and Italy, the survey found, although Italy remains the most expensive destination in Europe with a basket costing around £81, twice as much as Portugal.
The items surveyed by the Post Office included an evening meal for two, soft drinks, water, a cup of coffee and sun cream.
