Category: Venue Finding

Named after the world’s first purpose build race track where the hotel is based, the Brooklands hotel takes great inspiration from its racetrack history. There are 131 bedrooms and suites, some of which have views over the Mercedes Benz race track. 

The hotel offers 9 meeting spaces which can be accessed via a private entrance complete with a dedicated kitchen and bar. The meeting rooms are all kitted out with state-of-the-art AV equipment and have plenty of natural daylight. Many of the spaces offer views over the race track. 

For those looking for a dining experience the 1907 restaurant (named after the year the Brooklands racetrack opened) offers contemporary service with a 1920s and 30s inspired setting. 

Being next door to Mercedes-Benz world, there are plenty of options for team building activities, from off-road 4×4 driving to racing simulators. The Brooklands hotel itself can also offer plenty of team building options on site including wine tasting and murder mystery nights.

A new multi-million pound event space called Magazine London is set to open in summer 2019.

Construction of the venue is due to start in December and is located in the heart of Greenwich Peninsula on the riverbank with views of Canary Wharf and have capacity for 3,000 people.

The venue’s indoor space, will have an adjoining ‘Showground’ – a landscaped environment on the banks of the Thames with a capacity of 7,000 and catering will be supplied by the award-winning Moving Venue. Due to its location Magazine London, will benefit from excellent transport links and is only eight minutes travel time from central London.

A year on from its opening, The Curtain, a lifestyle hotel and members club in east London has launched The Design Studio, described as “an innovative new co-working space that mixes business with pleasure”. Open to The Curtain’s members and hotel guests, the Design Studio “functions both as a space to work and a cultural space, garlanded with beautiful artwork and a schedule of events and talks planned for the coming months”.

London’s first Pan Pacific hotel is set to open at the City’s One Bishopsgate Plaza in 2020, this will be the first for the Pan Pacific group in the UK.

The 43-storey development will comprise 160 luxury apartments and the 237-bedroom, five-star hotel.

The hotel will feature a meeting and events space, including a double-height ballroom, which will accommodate a banquet for up to 370 guests. The property is also set to have a fourth-floor pool, spa and fitness centre.

Pan Pacific is one of two hotel brands owned by Singaporean property group UOL. Pan Pacific Hotels Group has a portfolio of nearly 40 upscale hotels, resorts and serviced suites in Asia Pacific and North America.

Kensington Roof Gardens, one of Londons best known party venues,  is set to re-open as a restaurant or members club by 2020, according to its landlord.

The popular Roof Gardens, famous for its flamingos, had been welcoming guests since 1933 but was closed in January by its operator Virgin Group.

A shortlist of new operators is being drawn up, with Cushman & Wakefield hoping to name a successful bidder early next year with a view to re-opening in late 2019 or early 2020.

The site at 99 Kensington High Street consists of the sixth & seventh floors of the former Derry & Toms store. It includes the Babylon restaurant, a nightclub and bar housed in an art-deco former tea pavilion and three distinct gardens: the Tudor courtyard, the Spanish garden and the English woodland.