Montague on the Gardens announces Ski Lodge return
The Montague on the Gardens has announced the return of its popular Ski Lodge experience which serves up an authentic slice of the Alps in Bloomsbury.
From Thursday November 16th until January 20th, the luxury hotel’s outdoor wood deck will transform into a festive themed alpine Ski Lodge, complete with a cosy log cabin, offering Londoners and visitors to the capital a cosy “après ski” experience in the heart of the city.
The Montague’s deck area will feature pine trees, twinkling lights, festive snowmen, ski racks and falling snow. Visitors can select from a range of après ski favourites including homemade flavoured schnapps and vodkas, such as candy cane and toffee, winter warmers like mulled wine, spiced cider and hot ‘choctails’.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
Every guest room at the Haitang Bay, Sanya, hotel has an ocean view, and 45 of those rooms feature a private balcony plunge pool. Rosewood incorporated wood, tribal totems and aquatic elements into the resort’s design, in keeping with the brand’s approach to creating serene environments that reflect the natural surroundings. A curated art collection includes pieces from a variety of international artists.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
Every guest room at the Haitang Bay, Sanya, hotel has an ocean view, and 45 of those rooms feature a private balcony plunge pool. Rosewood incorporated wood, tribal totems and aquatic elements into the resort’s design, in keeping with the brand’s approach to creating serene environments that reflect the natural surroundings. A curated art collection includes pieces from a variety of international artists.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
The 246-room Rosewood Sanya opened yesterday, the lodging company’s first property in China. The lush luxury escape occupies 40 acres on Hainan Island, overlooking the South China Sea.
Every guest room at the Haitang Bay, Sanya, hotel has an ocean view, and 45 of those rooms feature a private balcony plunge pool. Rosewood incorporated wood, tribal totems and aquatic elements into the resort’s design, in keeping with the brand’s approach to creating serene environments that reflect the natural surroundings. A curated art collection includes pieces from a variety of international artists.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
The 246-room Rosewood Sanya opened yesterday, the lodging company’s first property in China. The lush luxury escape occupies 40 acres on Hainan Island, overlooking the South China Sea.
Every guest room at the Haitang Bay, Sanya, hotel has an ocean view, and 45 of those rooms feature a private balcony plunge pool. Rosewood incorporated wood, tribal totems and aquatic elements into the resort’s design, in keeping with the brand’s approach to creating serene environments that reflect the natural surroundings. A curated art collection includes pieces from a variety of international artists.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Open First Property in China
The 246-room Rosewood Sanya opened yesterday, the lodging company’s first property in China. The lush luxury escape occupies 40 acres on Hainan Island, overlooking the South China Sea.
Every guest room at the Haitang Bay, Sanya, hotel has an ocean view, and 45 of those rooms feature a private balcony plunge pool. Rosewood incorporated wood, tribal totems and aquatic elements into the resort’s design, in keeping with the brand’s approach to creating serene environments that reflect the natural surroundings. A curated art collection includes pieces from a variety of international artists.
Rosewood Sanya is part of an integrated resort that includes the Sanya Forum, the largest convention center on the bay. The hotel itself has nearly 37,000 square feet of meeting space, which is made up of a 16,000-square-foot, pillarless grand ballroom and six function spaces. The Pavilion is another event venue on site, a residential-style facility with a large outdoor terrace looking out to the sea.
Among the property’s five restaurants and lounges is East Kitchen, a 13th-floor contemporary eatery with stunning views and sophisticated comfort food. The adjacent Lounge offers light fare, cocktails, rare wines and craft beers. Also on the 13th floor is the HAI infinity pool bar, which features panoramic ocean views to accompany its signature cocktails.
Considering an Event in Toronto? Here's some quick fire facts about the city!
Business Events Toronto recently visited Trinity as part of a mini-expo to share with us what the city has to offer and why should be considered as a Meetings and Events Destination.
Here’s some key facts about the city:
One of the top 10 Safest Cities in the World
University of Toronto 4th in the world for Medical Research
2nd Largest Financial Centre in North America & 7th in the World
4th Best City in the World to experience Culture
International and Regional Airports
UP Express direct rail link from the airport to downtown in 25 minutes
40,000 hotel rooms
90 minute drive to Niagara Falls & Niagara Wine Region
Carlson Rezidor have announced The Radisson Blu Hotel, Venice San Marco will open in late 2019.
The hotel will be located in the inner part of Venice’s San Marco district, close to Saint Mark’s Square and the luxury shopping district. The venue will have 50 bedrooms and suites many benefiting from views of the famous canal, a restaurant with outdoor terrace dining, a lounge bar and a fitness room will also be present.
Congress Centre have recently opened a new large air conditioned room next to the Congress Hall, ideal for exhibitions, catering or parallel events when booked in conjunction with the Hall. The room is a new versatile exhibition space accommodating 14 3m x 2m exhibition stands, also ideal for catering & breakout space (200 standing, 190 dining, 130 theatre style), and 17.7m long x 10.4m wide x 3.3m high.
The Congress Centre has a central London location, 2 minutes’ walk from Tottenham Court Road tube, with flexible conference, meeting & event spaces for up to 500)
Congress Centre in London opens new exhibition space
Congress Centre have recently opened a new large air conditioned room next to the Congress Hall, ideal for exhibitions, catering or parallel events when booked in conjunction with the Hall. The room is a new versatile exhibition space accommodating 14 3m x 2m exhibition stands, also ideal for catering & breakout space (200 standing, 190 dining, 130 theatre style), and 17.7m long x 10.4m wide x 3.3m high.
The Congress Centre has a central London location, 2 minutes’ walk from Tottenham Court Road tube, with flexible conference, meeting & event spaces for up to 500)
Bankside is due to open its doors in September 2018. The property will be a six storey glass building located on the south bank of the River Thames and is part of the striking One Blackfriars development.
The hotel will have 161 airy rooms and suites with ‘white cube’ spaces for meetings and events, co-working areas and a relaxed neighbourhood-style restaurant and bar with an outdoor terrace.
After six years of business in the heart of the capital, the W London – Leicester Square has announced a complete redesign of its public area bar and lounge spaces. Designed to reflect the 24/7 energy of both the W brand and the British capital, the new bar will feature subtle, abstract references to London’s fashion, music and design influences. The areas will feature a large gold veil, which will have an in-built illumination to pulse to the beat of music.
Trinity Triple Challenge Auction site goes live to raise £20,000 for charities
For the fourth year Trinity is raising money for local charities through an online auction, with a target to raise over £20,000 for four charities. The site can be found at: www.trinityauctions.co.uk
The Trinity Triple Challenge is an annual event for each member of staff to visit 20 venues in a weekend either in the UK or overseas. Each venue is asked to donate a prize and those prizes are now being auctioned off for charity.
Over 300 ‘lots’ are up for auction and include: dinners, afternoon teas, weekend breaks, theatre and theme park tickets and much more.
Jacqui Kavanagh, CEO, Trinity Event Solutions said: “The Trinity Triple Challenge offers us a great way to raise money for charity whist the team enhances their venue and destination knowledge. The Challenge ties in to our ‘Destination Champion’ programme, where members of staff become a specialist in a city or region, carry out site visits and work with the hotels and venues to give first-hand advice to clients, as well as providing advice about the logistics and suitability for events.
“The Triple Challenge is now an integral part of our CSR values called ‘It’s not what you give it’s how you live’. We have a strong CSR programme and it is at the core of what we do. I’m proud that the challenge is now in its fifth year; I urge the industry to dig deep and help us to beat our £20,000 target.”
The site went live on Sunday 1st October and will be live for a month. The site launches with 100 lots and more will be added each week throughout October.
The four charities being supported were chosen by the Trinity team, they are:
Hilton Garden Inn get the go ahead for Royal Windsor Racecourse
Planning permission has been given for a 150 bedroom Hilton Garden Inn hotel at Royal Windsor Racecourse. The four-storey hotel will have a bar and restaurant open for breakfast and dinner, and a fitness suite, all open to non-residents.
According to a recent report by the Food Standards Agency, more adults are having allergic reactions to food because of the peer pressure to try different cuisine, take risks with foods they are unsure about, and not admit to known allergies due to embarrassment.
Unfortunately, the NHS does not hold data on specific food allergies but figures for overall allergies, which include food-related cases, are rising sharply. According to NHS Digital data, there were 25,093 hospital admissions for allergies in England in 2016, up by 36% from 2012.
For meetings and event planners, this presents significant challenges when menu planning.
Therefore, here’s our checklist of four things to consider when discussing food choices with hotels and venues.
Don’t be the cause of kitchen chaos
You may think that a choice menu for 600 guests will circumnavigate some of today’s potential dietary issues, but have you considered what impact that could have on the kitchen? If guests see a dish being carried to a nearby table of something they’d prefer, it’s amazing how quickly they remember a forgotten chicken allergy, just so they can switch to their favourite sea bass. At a hotel or venue, the catering staff have to treat everyone the same so if somebody says they’ll be ill if they eat a certain dish, that has to be believed and dealt with accordingly.
Leave individuals in expert hands
The advice from Executive Chefs is to select the best possible menu for the majority of your guests and don’t worry about the CEO who doesn’t like mushrooms or is gluten free. An experienced catering team will handle individual exceptions professionally, leaving you to focus on creating the right impression with exciting food for the majority of guests.
Put the onus back onto guests
As an organiser, ensure that you’ve done everything within your power to communicate to guests that, should they have an undeclared food allergy, they can discuss it in private with a senior member of the catering team or make staff aware with the use of a table card. Ideally, you want to focus on medical requirements rather than food preferences and be aware of the sensitivities of early-stage pregnancies. If you’re planning a buffet, all foods will need to be labelled with the correct dietary information.
A secret of the trade
The majority of hotels prepare for the unknown by catering for an additional 10% of guests who change their mind or reveal food allergies. This trade secret should be confirmed with your hotel catering team and increased if thought necessary. If someone has a serious allergy to an ingredient such as nuts, their dessert will need to be prepared in a completely separate area of the hotel or bought in from the outside. It is safer to assume that most hotel pastry kitchen are already contaminated by nuts (and that’s not just the pastry chefs!).
These four considerations were discussed in-depth at our most recent Meetings Voice forum, held at the Royal Lancaster London. Should you wish to join our next event or would like to discuss menu planning for events, please contact Trinity Event Solutions or email paula@trinityeventsolutions.co.uk
