The first UK hotel from the luxury Peninsula chain – Peninsula London - opens on 12th September. Peninsula London will have 190-bedrooms and suites plus 25 luxury residences. Facilities will include a rooftop restaurant and bar, a spa and wellness centre with a 25m swimming pool, a ballroom and a range of meeting and events suites. Peninsula London is located in Grosvenor Place in Belgravia, overlooking Hyde Park Corner and the Wellington Arch.
The Elms Hotel in Worcestershire, which has recently completed an extensive refurbishment has just joined the Pride of Britain PoB Hotels grougrowing its collection of independent hotels in the UK. The Elms Hotel has 23 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and extensive spa and leisure facilities.
Leonardo Royal Hotel Edinburgh has completed a £22million refurbishment following the hotel’s rebranding from the former Jury’s Inn Edinburgh . A major expansion plan is also about to start adding a further 100 new bedrooms to the existing 186 bedrooms – all due for completion by summer 2024.
Relais Cooden Beach in Bexhill on Sea , East Sussex has joined the Classic British Hotels & Resorts collection. Relais Cooden Beach is located on the beach with 45 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar plus a range of meeting and events suites seating up to 150 delegates.
Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds is reopening on July 4 as the Cowley Manor Experimental Hotel , following a five month closure and a complete refurbishment. Cowley Manor Experimental has 31 individually styled bedrooms, a restaurant and bar, outdoor and indoor swimming pools plus a spa. Cowley Manor Experimental is located in Cowley, Cheltenham in the heart of the Cotswolds.
This week sees the opening of the 4-star Ropewalk Hotel on Seel Street in the centre of Liverpool with 128 bedrooms.
Construction work starts next month on the new Zeal Hotel in Exeter. It will be the first net zero hotel to open in the UK. It is scheduled to open with 142 bedrooms in Exeter Science Park at the end of 2024.
The Science Museum in London’s South Kensington is offering events organisers the opportunity to exclusively hire the entire museum on a limited number of dates throughout the year - for large-scale, full day events including product launches, conferences, exhibitions, fashion shows and filming.
Apologies but we missed this new hotel when it opened back In January. It is The Wesley Camden Town. The hotel is owned by the Methodist Church and it is the conversion of its chapel on Plender Street in central London. The Wesley is now a ‘mixed-use venue’ with worship and community space on the lower ground floor with 38 bedrooms spread over four more floors. The Wesley Camden Town is the Methodist’s second London location, following The Wesley Euston hotel and conference centre which opened in 2012.
Finally, if you happen to have £1.2billion in ready cash looking for a home – the Travelodge Group is on the market with its 45,781 bedrooms across 595 hotels. But if your budget only runs to £13.25million then perhaps The Crown Estate selling the Harte & Garter Hotel and Spa in Windsor will be of more interest.