Hotels, Venues & Event news
Crowne Plaza has reopened the Bellhouse Hotel, Beaconsfield following refurbishment. It is a 4-star hotel with 7 meeting rooms and 138 bedrooms, spa, gym and pool.
The nearest railway station is Gerrards Cross and the nearest underground is at Uxbridge.
The InterContinental Malta is the largest hotel on Malta, with 481 bedrooms, including 30 new Highline suites. The hotel has recently been carrying out extesive work to add a new Club and state of the art conference centre.
The Arena Conference Centre has 6,000 square metres of space and the largest meeting room holds 1,700 delegates in theatre style or up to 960 people for dinner. This room has a ceiling height of 8m and hanging points for lighting, as well as access for vehicles. There are 23 other meeting rooms of various sizes and there is a separate check-in area for conference attendees.
Situated in St George’s the hotel also has six restaurants and six bars as well as extensive leisure facilities: a panoramic lagoon styled outdoor pool, rooftop infinity pool, a heated indoor pool, fitness centre with squash courts and aerobics studio, a spa with traditional Turkish hamam and an exclusive sandy beach area.
Signature Living has opened the first phase of its latest property in Liverpool, The Shankly Hotel, an 83-bed themed hotel in honour of former Liverpool FC manager, Bill Shankly. It is located in the city centre a few minutes walk from Lime Stree Station.
In 2016 the hotel will open the Eden Meeting & Conference Centre, which will have capacity for up to 350 delegates. The meeting rooms will be flexible so that they can be split into different sizes. Delegates will also have the option of dining in 2 restaurants and bars and there will be a roof top garden with panoramic views of the city.
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels has purchased the Beatles themed Hard Day’s Night Hotel, Liverpool. It is a four star boutique property, situated in the city centre, close to many of the city’s attractions, and adjacent to the Cavern Club. The hotel opened in 2008 in a restored Grade II listed building, dating back to 1884 and has specially commissioned Beatles-inspired artwork. The hotel’s restaurant, Blakes is named after pop artist Sir Peter Blake and Bar Four offers speciality cocktails. The hotel also has an inner courtyard on the first floor, named Peace Garden, which is dedicated to John Lennon.
There are three meeing rooms: the Two of Us Suite for 50 people theatre-style, the Zygmant Suite for 150 theatre-stye and the Hard Days Night Suite for 70 theatre-style. The hotel has 110 bedrooms.
The 4-star Courtyard Madrid Princesa was added to Courtyard by Marriott group following the remodelling of the hotel’s public areas, lobby, restaurant-bar, meeting and event halls and guest rooms, of which 170 have been renovated so far. Renovation of the remaining rooms and other spaces will be completed by early 2016. The end result will be 263 Comfort Rooms, 146 Premium Rooms and 14 suites.
There are four meeting rooms and three halls for conferences and the lobby furnishings, decoration and design have been updated with versatile spaces that can be used for sitting and relaxing, for meetings or for working. The reception area has been given a more modern look, and the cafeteria has been turned into a Bistro Bar & Restaurant that has tables with individual TVs.
This hotel also has largest indoor pool of any hotel in Madrid.
The Queen’s has undergone major refurbishment and opened as a MGallery hotel on 3rd September 2015. It has one meeting room, the Regency Suite, for up to 100 people theatre-style and 84 bedrooms, including four suites.
The hotel is in the town and has a restaurant offering a menu with fresh produce sourced from local farms. The Sherbourne Pump, the hotel’s ornate bar, has a listed carved wooden bar, a gift from India to Lord Napier.
The Arp-Hansen Hotel Group, the largest hotel chain in Copenhagen with 12 hotels spread around the city, has just opened a new Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center located in the heart of Copenhagen. By October 2015 the hotel will have 679 rooms in fabulous Tivoli design together with new meeting facilities that can accommodate up to 5,500 guests spread over 55 meetings rooms. The beautiful Tivoli Congress Hall can accommodate up to 2400 people at the same time. There are 2 auditoriums with room for 400 & 200 people inside and 4 big meeting rooms with a capacity for 442, 336, 308 & 192 people in theatre style. Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center also offers 4 different restaurants where 2 are based on the 12th floor overlooking Copenhagen. There will also be brand new lobby bar, a penthouse pool and relax area that will feature a unique pool designed with a glass bottom that hovers above the hotel façade at a height of 43 metres.
At floor 14th, there is a restaurant and lounge with a panoramic terrace, 360º views and a sky pool. Contemporary cuisine in a cosmopolitan and relaxed ambience, cocktails and DJ music. The Sky Lounge can be used for events.
The Dear Hotel is a new 4-star boutique hotel close to Madrid’s Plaza de España, offering accommodation in the heart of the city. It is situated at number 80 on Madrid’s Gran Vía, in a 1945 building that still retains some of the distinctive architectural features of the period. Of the 162 rooms available to guests, there are nine suites on floors 10 and 12 which offer the best views over Plaza de España and Casa de Campo Park. All of the rooms are outward-facing, with views of Plaza de España or Gran Vía, and some of them even have individual balconies.
At floor 14th, there is a restaurant and lounge with a panoramic terrace, 360º views and a sky pool. Contemporary cuisine in a cosmopolitan and relaxed ambience, cocktails and DJ music. The Sky Lounge can be used for events.
The Dear Hotel is a new 4-star boutique hotel close to Madrid’s Plaza de España, offering accommodation in the heart of the city. It is situated at number 80 on Madrid’s Gran Vía, in a 1945 building that still retains some of the distinctive architectural features of the period. Of the 162 rooms available to guests, there are nine suites on floors 10 and 12 which offer the best views over Plaza de España and Casa de Campo Park. All of the rooms are outward-facing, with views of Plaza de España or Gran Vía, and some of them even have individual balconies.
At floor 14th, there is a restaurant and lounge with a panoramic terrace, 360º views and a sky pool. Contemporary cuisine in a cosmopolitan and relaxed ambience, cocktails and DJ music. The Sky Lounge can be used for events.
Elsewhere, the De Vere Venue Brigade located at London Bridge is a unique venue that offers a cook school team building opportunity as well as fantastic options for private dining with the chance to get involved in the cooking of elements of the dinner. Although the cook school is a unique element of the venue, there are also meeting spaces on site, with contemporary rooms to seat up to 60 delegates theatre style. It is a great venue to consider if you are looking for something slightly different with the unique twist of getting involved in the cooking.
Principal Hayley Hotels, which also includes the brands of De Vere Venues and Four Pillar Hotels, visited Trinity to update the team on their group and ongoing refurbishments which are being undertaken across many of their hotels. The George in Edinburgh has 42 newly refurbished bedrooms which were completed in June 2015, with the remaining bedrooms being all refurbished by January 2016. Refurbishments are also being undertaken in the reception area and the Kings Hall. Housed in a 1780s building, this upscale hotel is set among the shops of George Street and is an 8-minute walk from both Edinburgh Waverley train station and Edinburgh Castle.
Elsewhere, the De Vere Venue Brigade located at London Bridge is a unique venue that offers a cook school team building opportunity as well as fantastic options for private dining with the chance to get involved in the cooking of elements of the dinner. Although the cook school is a unique element of the venue, there are also meeting spaces on site, with contemporary rooms to seat up to 60 delegates theatre style. It is a great venue to consider if you are looking for something slightly different with the unique twist of getting involved in the cooking.
Principal Hayley Hotels, which also includes the brands of De Vere Venues and Four Pillar Hotels, visited Trinity to update the team on their group and ongoing refurbishments which are being undertaken across many of their hotels. The George in Edinburgh has 42 newly refurbished bedrooms which were completed in June 2015, with the remaining bedrooms being all refurbished by January 2016. Refurbishments are also being undertaken in the reception area and the Kings Hall. Housed in a 1780s building, this upscale hotel is set among the shops of George Street and is an 8-minute walk from both Edinburgh Waverley train station and Edinburgh Castle.
Elsewhere, the De Vere Venue Brigade located at London Bridge is a unique venue that offers a cook school team building opportunity as well as fantastic options for private dining with the chance to get involved in the cooking of elements of the dinner. Although the cook school is a unique element of the venue, there are also meeting spaces on site, with contemporary rooms to seat up to 60 delegates theatre style. It is a great venue to consider if you are looking for something slightly different with the unique twist of getting involved in the cooking.