Hotels, Venues & Event news
The Strand Palace – one of London’s largest hotels with 785 bedrooms – has started a multimillion-pound refurbishment. Work on the ground floor of the property on the Strand, including the reception, restaurant, bar and tea room, has just begun and is expected to be completed in the summer, these spaces will operate as flexible lifestyle areas
The bedrooms will then be decorated, with completion expected by April 2020.
The Natural History Museum will host Museum of the Moon from 17th May 2019, giving event planners the chance to let guests spend an evening under artist Luke Jerram’s illuminated moon.
The art installation, features detailed NASA imagery to perfectly recreate the moon’s surface and has toured the world since its launch in Bristol in 2016 and has been enjoyed at festivals, sporting events and in public spaces.
From 17 May until 8 September, the art installation will be part of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions in the Jerwood Gallery, which can cater for up to 300 for dinner and after hours, event guests can dance the night away underneath the mesmerising lunar glow.
Hilton is to launch its new luxury brand LXR Hotels & Resorts into Europe with the opening of the Biltmore hotel in London, following the signing of an agreement with Millennium & Copthorne Hotels.
The 308-bedroom hotel on Grosvenor Square, previously the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair, is currently undergoing a £50m redevelopment and is due to launch in the Spring of this year.
Officially to be known as the Biltmore, Mayfair – LXR Hotels & Resorts, the hotel will feature a year-round alfresco terrace and cocktail bar. There will also be a ballroom for up to 70 guests and a fitness suite.
LXR Hotels & Resorts is intended to be a luxury brand for independent hotels, the first of the new breed of LXR Hotels & Resorts opened last year in Dubai at the 234-bedroom Habtoor Palace
The Grosvenor hotel at London’s Victoria is to be re-branded under GLH Hotels’ Amba brand following its refurbishment, the 345-bedroom property, which is at the moment operating under the Guoman Hotels brand, is currently undergoing a redesign ahead of relaunching under the group’s four-star brand. The project is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2019.
The refurbishment will be phased, with the Grosvenor Arms restaurant and Tea Lounge already complete. The hotel’s bedrooms, meetings and events spaces, and additional food and beverage outlets will be fully refurbished throughout next year.
Amba Victoria will join two other hotels in the brands in Marble Arch and Charing Cross.
Boxpark Wembley is now open with more than 20 food and beverage vendors, the North West London site is the largest to date for the Boxpark team.
Boxpark Wembley also features a 20,000 sq ft dedicated events space and a year-round schedule of entertainment. The cultural strategy for the area includes artist studios run by Second Floor Studios & Arts, a public art programme and cultural programming and events.
Marriott has confirmed that its new Moxy Edinburgh hotel will open in January, the new 230-bedroom hotel at Edinburgh Airport is the first opening in the city for Marriott’s lifestyle brand, with plans in the pipeline for a second in the Fountainbridge area to open in 2020.
nhow London, a 190-room hotel under NH Hotel Group’s design and lifestyle brand, is set to open in London in summer 2019. The property will be located between the City, Islington and Shoreditch, within the ‘250 City Road’ development, the four-star hotel will be NH Hotel Group’s second property in the UK.
The eight-storey hotel will feature 190 rooms, a restaurant, bar, gym, networking spaces and several meeting rooms as well a ‘Big Ben’ rocket sculpture being one of the lobby’s most striking elements. re.
The restaurant – The Bell – will be an avant-garde version of a traditional British pub, with green leather seating coiling through the room and tables featuring cockney rhyming slang.
The nhow London is due to open in the summer of 2019.
Village Hotel Club Bristol officially opened its doors following a significant investment of £22.5 million.
The sleek black box situated in Filton, just North of Bristol’s city centre features 153 stylish rooms, a state-of-the-art gym, the Village Pub and Grill, a Starbucks coffee shop, and the Village Hotels Business Club VWorks – a versatile meeting and events space where guests can enjoy a relaxed co-working space, free super-fast Wi-Fi.
A 196-bedroom Courtyard by Marriott hotel is due to open close to London City Airport in 2020.
The hotel will be a seven-storey property and will feature a ground-floor restaurant and meeting facilities. Its opening will coincide with a £500m redevelopment of the south-east London airport, which is set to quadruple the size of its passenger terminal.
Warner Leisure Hotels has acquired the 300-bedroom Heythrop Park Resort as part of its planned expansion, this follows the group’s recent £50m transformation of Studley Castle in Warwickshire, which is set to open its doors in March 2019 taking its portfolio up to 15 hotels
Warner intends to commence the refurbishment of the hotel in 2019, opening its doors as a new Warner in 2020. Built in the 1700s by Charles Talbot, Heythrop Park is a Grade II-listed property that sits on 440 acres of parkland and an 18-hole championship golf course.