Emirates to add third London airport to its network
Emirates, the Middle East’s largest airline, said on Wednesday that from June next year it would start flying to London Stansted, an airport largely served by European carriers. The Dubai-based airline said it would begin daily flights between its Middle East hub and London’s third busiest airport on June 8, and that it would be the first Middle East airline to fly to Stansted. It will be the third London airport Emirates flies to after London Heathrow and London Gatwick, and its seventh airport in the United Kingdom. Stansted, 35 miles north of London, has traditionally been a base for European airlines flying holiday routes and budget carriers like Ryanair and easyJet, although full-service carrier British Airways started flying there last year. Emirates said it expected some of its demand to come from nearby technology and pharmaceutical hubs in Cambridge and Peterborough.
Harbour Hotels has moved into London with the purchase of the 68-bedroom Richmond Gate hotel, taking the groups portfolio up to 11 hotels across the south of England. The hotel is located at the top of Richmond Hill, opposite Richmond Park and will continue to operate as the Richmond Gate Hotel until its rebranding in winter 2018 after an extensive refurbishment which we see the addition of the Jetty restaurant and a spa.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group have revealed that it will manage a new luxury hotel and branded residences – Mandarin Oriental Mayfair – on Hanover Square in the heart of London’s Mayfair district. The property is set to open in 2021 and will be a boutique hotel featuring 50 bedrooms and suites as well as 80 residences. The venue will also feature a lobby lounge, fine dining restaurant and a private roof terrace bar overlooking Mayfair.
New hotel and developments in Berlin for 2018 and beyond
Barcelo is opening a second hotel in Germany. The Berlin property is located on the corner of Invalidenstraße / Clara-Jaschke-Strasse at Berliner Hauptbahnhof. The four-star hotel will offer 283 rooms and suites to business and private travellers, some equipped with expansive balconies. There will be a conference centre on the first floor and a restaurant and bar on the ground floor.
A further 814 rooms will be added to the existing 1,125 rooms of the Hotel Estrel upon completion of the 46-floor Estrel tower. At 176 metres, the new tower will be around 2.5 times as high as the present Hotel Estrel, making it the highest hotel tower in Germany. The opening is scheduled for 2020/2021.
The Lindner hotel me and all is due to open in 2018 with 165 bedrooms. It is situated in the newly built “Volt Berlin” shopping and experience centre at the southern end of Alexanderplatz. Along with this urban-style boutique hotel and shops and restaurants, the Volt will also contain a surfing wave and a wind tunnel.
The Campus-Hotel, a four-star modern congress and conference hotel will have around 320 bedrooms. It is due for completion by 2018/2019 in the Adlershof technology park. A large convention area with conference rooms and a hall for up to 1,000 participants is planned, as well as a multi-functional hall for receptions and exhibitions. The highlight will be the sky bar on the top floor of the 54-metre-high hotel tower.
In August 2016, work began on a hotel at Nollendorfplatz 2 in Schoneberg. It is scheduled to be completed in 2018, offering 85 rooms over ten floors. Some of these are long-stay apartments for long-term visitors. The interior design of the hotel is inspired by Japanese tea rooms.
Also set to be finished by 2018 is the Schultheiss Quartier on the grounds of the former brewery on Turmstrasse in Moabit. Along with a shopping centre offering a range of leisure activities, there will be a hotel with around 250 bedrooms.
An unspecified amount of meeting space also will be available, as will seasonal activities such as skiing in winter and golfing and hiking in summer.
Scheduled to open in 2020, Six Senses Kitzbühel Alps will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets available for private sale. Featuring a design that Six Senses calls a “modern interpretation of traditional Austrian design” — with a focus on natural wood and stone finishes, including exposed timber beams — it also will have an all-day restaurant serving international fare prepared with locally sourced ingredients, a spa, and an onsite wellness program through which in-house experts will give lifestyle and nutritional advice to guests, who will have the option of receiving a personalized program of spa treatments, fitness, and wellness activities.
An unspecified amount of meeting space also will be available, as will seasonal activities such as skiing in winter and golfing and hiking in summer.
Scheduled to open in 2020, Six Senses Kitzbühel Alps will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets available for private sale. Featuring a design that Six Senses calls a “modern interpretation of traditional Austrian design” — with a focus on natural wood and stone finishes, including exposed timber beams — it also will have an all-day restaurant serving international fare prepared with locally sourced ingredients, a spa, and an onsite wellness program through which in-house experts will give lifestyle and nutritional advice to guests, who will have the option of receiving a personalized program of spa treatments, fitness, and wellness activities.
An unspecified amount of meeting space also will be available, as will seasonal activities such as skiing in winter and golfing and hiking in summer.
The property will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets. The Austrian Alps are best known as the iconic backdrop to Julie Andrews in the opening scene of the 1965 film The Sound of Music. Soon, however, incentive travellers will be able to appreciate the scenery as much as film buffs do thanks to Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, which yesterday announced plans to open a new resort in Kitzbühel, near Austria’s High Tauern National Park — the largest nature reserve in the Alps.
Scheduled to open in 2020, Six Senses Kitzbühel Alps will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets available for private sale. Featuring a design that Six Senses calls a “modern interpretation of traditional Austrian design” — with a focus on natural wood and stone finishes, including exposed timber beams — it also will have an all-day restaurant serving international fare prepared with locally sourced ingredients, a spa, and an onsite wellness program through which in-house experts will give lifestyle and nutritional advice to guests, who will have the option of receiving a personalized program of spa treatments, fitness, and wellness activities.
An unspecified amount of meeting space also will be available, as will seasonal activities such as skiing in winter and golfing and hiking in summer.
Six Senses Plans New Resort in Austrian Alps
The property will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets. The Austrian Alps are best known as the iconic backdrop to Julie Andrews in the opening scene of the 1965 film The Sound of Music. Soon, however, incentive travellers will be able to appreciate the scenery as much as film buffs do thanks to Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, which yesterday announced plans to open a new resort in Kitzbühel, near Austria’s High Tauern National Park — the largest nature reserve in the Alps.
Scheduled to open in 2020, Six Senses Kitzbühel Alps will include 80 guest rooms, 50 residences, and a small village of chalets available for private sale. Featuring a design that Six Senses calls a “modern interpretation of traditional Austrian design” — with a focus on natural wood and stone finishes, including exposed timber beams — it also will have an all-day restaurant serving international fare prepared with locally sourced ingredients, a spa, and an onsite wellness program through which in-house experts will give lifestyle and nutritional advice to guests, who will have the option of receiving a personalized program of spa treatments, fitness, and wellness activities.
An unspecified amount of meeting space also will be available, as will seasonal activities such as skiing in winter and golfing and hiking in summer.
This hotel, owned and operated by Red Carnation Hotel Collection has just relaunched following a complete refurbishment. There are 9 meeting rooms, the largest has capacity for 90 in theatre style.
All 163 bedrooms have been refurbished, with chandeliers and 80 new marble bathrooms. The hotel now has two restaurants: a brasserie-style English Grill and the Curry Room. There are three bars: the Cavalry bar, the Leopard Champagne bar and the Palace lounge, which overlooks the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace.
Me by Meliá has revealed its debut property in the Middle East with the launch of Me Dubai at the end of 2018. Located in the heart of the Burj Khalifa district in Downtown Dubai, Me Dubai will take residence in the 95 metre-high, Opus building and is set to become a legacy hotel.
The property will have 93 guestrooms and suites over 19 floors, the ultra-luxurious ‘Suite Me’, and 98 serviced apartments
There are currently ME by Meliá hotels in Miami, Milan, London, Ibiza, Mallorca, Madrid and Cabo, with further openings in Sitges in 2018 and Barcelona in 2019.
Cheval Blanc, the new luxury hotel from Louis Vuitton in Paris
Cheval Blanc Samaritaine will open in Paris at the end of 2018. It is located on the banks of the Seine and in easy walking distance of the key landmarks and museums: 6-minute walk to the Louvre Museum, a few steps to the Pont Neuf, a 10-minute walk to Sainte Chapelle on the Ile de la Cite, and about a 13-minute walk to Notre Dame.
The original La Samaritaine building was built in 1870 as one of the first Paris department stores. The Cheval Blanc La Samaritaine hotel will be a boutique property, with an Art Deco facade and 72 residential-style rooms and suites, a gourmet restaurant, contemporary brasserie and a Givenchy Spa. Meeting space will be advised nearer to the opening date.
Boutique hotel group Malmaison Hotel du Vin has revealed that after an extensive renovation of the property, the famous Avon Gorge Hotel is set to be unveiled as The Avon Gorge by Hotel du Vin in spring 2018.
The 75 bedroom property will become the second Hotel du Vin in Bristol, joining a sister property in the city centre.
Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh now due to open in Summer 2018
This property, on a site which has been derelict for more than 50 years, is being turned in to a design, boutique hotel. It is a seven-story building in the Old Town Conservation Area on Market Street and will have 98 bedrooms. Information about the meeting space is not yet available. The construction, first begun in May 2016 was originally due for completion in September 2017.
The Carlton Hotel Collection is part of Hotel Management International, which also owns the Carlton George in Glasgow.
