Hotels, Venues & Event news
Modular budget hotel concept Qbic is set to open in Manchester, its second UK site following its London’s Whitechapel opening five years ago. Work has begun on converting John Dalton House in Manchester, a former office block, into a 261-bedroom Qbic hotel, which is due to complete in February next year.
The brand has one other property, the Qbic Amsterdam WTC (World Trade Center), which launched in 2007.
The National Gallery has added two new outdoor event spaces for 2019, increasing its portfolio to twenty-two locations within the venue, the National Gallery Garden and Jubilee Walk will be available for hire from January 2019, with various features to allow for a range of different events, both during the day and evening.
Malmaison Liverpool has completed a multimillion-pound refurbishment of its 130 bedrooms and meeting and events spaces and has also seen the launch of a new cocktail bar at the property.
The brand is due to open three new hotels opening over the next 24 months including in Bournemouth, where the brand is in the early stages of developing a new build hotel; Edinburgh, where renovation work has already begun on the Grade A-listed Buchan House, which will be the brand’s second site in the city; and York, where work is underway to open a new 150-bedroom hotel.
Located just minutes from Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in the lively Wangfujing district, the hotel will have two restaurants, Café Zi will offer all-day dining, specialising in Asian cuisine and the Mandarin Grill and Bar will feature classic grill-style dishes and the rooftop bar, MO Bar will serve innovative cocktails and feature resident and international DJs complete with spectacular roof-terrace views of the Forbidden City.
The hotel will feature The Vintry Kitchen, serving Asian tapas, a roof terrace with views overlooking iconic London sights like St Paul’s Cathedral and The Shard and ‘Do Not Disturb’ the hotel’s basement bar that will transport you back to 1920’s New York.
The property is a 40-minute drive from either Berlin Tegel Airport or Berlin Schönefeld Airport, and within walking distance of a train station.
The venue joins Hampton by Hilton Berlin City West and Hampton by Hilton Berlin City Centre Alexanderplatz within the capital and is the ninth Hampton by Hilton hotel in Germany.
It has been confirmed today that Hyatt Hotels Corporation has won the bid to operate the new Spa & Conference hotel at Edinburgh Marina. This is the international hotelier’s first hotel in Scotland.
The Hyatt Regency hotel at Edinburgh Marina will have 187 bedrooms including a two bedroom Presidential suite together with 98 one, two and three bedroom Hyatt Regency Residences serviced apartments. These apartments will be designed and fitted to the same specification as the hotel room enabling guests to enjoy the service and amenities of a hotel, whilst enjoying all the benefits of a self-contained apartment.
The property will also feature a health spa and fitness centre, a 10,000 sq.ft conference & banqueting centre, restaurants and bars. The hotel will overlook the new 340 berth Edinburgh Marina which will uniquely, for this coastline, provide 24/7 access at all states of tides.
The opening of the latest hotel in the Dakota brand has been confirmed for May 2019, Dakota Deluxe Manchester, located on Dulcie Street, near Piccadilly Station will open with 137 bedrooms, including 27 suites one of which is called the Grand Deluxa and will be the largest suite in the city.
The property will also feature the Grill, the bar, Champagne Room and cigar garden and will join two existing Dakota Deluxe hotels in Glasgow and Leeds and two properties under the more accessible Dakota brand in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, and Eurocentral, on the outskirts of Glasgow.
InterContinental Hotels Group’s (IHG) Voco brand has made its European debut in Cardiff following the rebrand of the Principal Hotel Cardiff.
The 142-bedroom Voco St David’s, Cardiff, is the second hotel to join IHG’s new upscale brand, following the opening of the Voco Gold Coast in Australia earlier this month.
Three other hotels set to join Voco next year are Oxford Thames, Oxford Spires and the Grand Central Glasgow. 15 more UK hotels are expected to sign up to the Voco brand by the end of 2018.
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. For more information contact Amba Hotels