Hotels, Venues & Event news
The new event space can accommodation delegates up to 600 in The Tanks, the largest space, for a drinks reception of 400 for a dinner.
There is also a viewing terrace on the 10th floor which can host dinners up to 80 and drinks receptions for 150 and offers a unique blank canvas space with stunning views.
The building will also feature a fine dining restaurant which can be privately hired for dinners up to 80 and drinks receptions for 200.
A new team building challenge Vertigo Adventures will launch in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. The venue will open on the 25th of June 2016, and includes a series of high and low ropes courses and zip wires, designed for adventure seekers.
Vertigo adventures is located 20 minutes by train from London Kings Cross and can be hired for exclusive events and team building. There are activities for both the fainter of hearts and the dare devils such as the tamer Monkey trail, or the more daring Hawks View. The high rope course gives delegates the option to stick to the normal route or switch over to the extreme route if they’re feeling brave! And also has the added bonus of a zip line!
This venue is 100 yards from St Pancras station. It has six 6 meeting rooms: Boardroom, office, library, study, games room and tv room. The design is stylish and there’s the latest technology. All rooms have large LRF Ultra HD SMART touch screen TV, conference phones, Whiteboard wall, Sky TV complete with Sky Sports and Sky Movies, 200mb/s super-fast Enterprise grade WiFi. Bookings can be made for half and hour, an hour, half day or day and the venue is open from 8am until 11pm.
The space belongs to Hotel Megaro – a boutique 4* hotel less than a minute’s walk away. The hotel has 57 bedrooms, brasserie and a late-night cocktail bar.
The Natural History Museum has opened up the newly refurbished Flett Theatre for daytime conferences.
The New theatre is the only event space open during the day at the museum, The purpose-built, auditorium-style theatre can host conferences, talks and training days and features a private foyer for registration and refreshments for delegates. During breaks it offers the opportunity to explore the nearby galleries and check out the exhibits. Audio-visual facilities are available to hire including in-built microphones, an LCD projector, HD cameras, Blu-ray and DVD playback for film screening, wireless and lapel microphones as well as audio playback. It is possible for organisers to expand the event once the museum closes to the public, with private viewings of the exhibitions or a drinks reception and dinner.
Home to the Institution of Civil Engineers, the One Great George Street was designed by Scottish architect James Miller and celebrated its 100th birthday in 2010. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1984 and first became available for public events in 1989. Offering 21 flexible event spaces, the Edwardian building with rich neo-Palladian and Baroque interior, will undergo a series of works designed to further improve facilities, energy efficiency and accessibility.
Key activities will include:
The venue will be closed to the public from 20th June to 18th September 2016. During this refurbishment period, it will not be possible to book meeting rooms or use the venue for conferences. It will be business as usual for The Café Bar and Brasserie One, although Brasserie One will be closed in August as usual. Entrance to the building will be via the Storey’s Gate entrance until the refurbishment works are complete.
One Great George Street will fully re-open on the 19th September 2016.
IET London Savoy Place now offers external events after their two year development which lasted 2 years and costed around £30m. The Savoy Place now offers two lecture theatres holding around 600 delegates. The fantastic layout of the room makes it even better with a futuristic digital chandelier in the foyer. There are also video walls located on the second floor, this can be connected to live feeds or may be personalised to event requirements.
They have also added the new Johnson Roof Terrace, which can hold 200 guests and would be perfect for drinks receptions with the stunning views over London.
Portobello Road Gin is opening a new distillery in London’s trendy Notting Hill. Due to open in November 2015, the multi-million pound distillery will also include a restaurant and bar. Guests will also be able to take part in creating their own unique gin recipe to take away whilst learning about the history of gin in the on-site museum.
The top floor of the hotel will feature private dining space and the distillery will be the first of its kind to have accommodation on-site as well.
