We start our monthly roundup of hotel news in London and the South-East before moving north and finally into Scotland.
Hyde London City Hotel is a new hotel opening 2nd September in the Grade II listed 15 Old Bailey Building in central London. It will have 111 bedrooms and suites, a Turkish restaurant, a subterranean cocktail bar plus meeting and events space. Local attractions include St Paul’s Cathedral and the Old Bailey. It is a short walk to St Paul’s tube station on the Central Line.
American-based, Auberge Resorts Collection, is set to manage its first hotel in the UK in central London. They will manage Cambridge House, which was formerly the In and Out Military Club in London’s Mayfair. An opening is planned in late 2025 and will include 102 bedrooms and suites, a private members’ club, a ballroom, a brasserie restaurant plus a spa with two heated swimming pools, seven treatment rooms and a gym.
Virgin Hotels London Shoreditch opens 1st August in the heart of Shoreditch. The 120-bedroom hotel in Curtain Road will include a Spanish restaurant, a rooftop bar, pool, private members club, gym and treatment rooms. It will have seven meetings and events suites.
Burnham Beeches Hotel, a ‘stone’s-throw’ from Windsor is currently undergoing a major refurbishment of all its suites and bedrooms plus the reception and other public areas – all due to be completed Winter 2024,
Dalata Hotel group has just opened Maldron Hotel Brighton on the waterfront with 226 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar, gym and five meeting and events suites. It is a13 minute walk from Brighton station and a 25-minute drive from Gatwick Airport.
The White Horses Rottingdean in East Sussex is the first hotel in the Everly Hotels Collection, the new luxe hotel brand from pub chain Greene King. The hotel has 32 bedrooms and suites, a bar and 290-cover restaurant plus an outside terrace with views across the English Channel.
The Albion Hotel on the Isle of Wight has reopened following the completion of a £6 million refurbishment. The hotel has 40 bedrooms, the majority with sea views, plus a restaurant, a small private dining room and a bar.
Hotel news from the Midlands includes:
In Birmingham - A new Radisson RED is planned as part of the proposed redevelopment of the Birmingham Edgbaston Stadium, home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club. The hotel will feature 146 bedrooms and suites including 85 with pitch-facing balconies, a rooftop restaurant and bar. Spring 2027 is the planned opening date.
The latest Pig Hotel to join the collection will be The Pig in The Cotswolds. It opens on 2nd September in the former Barnsley House hotel - a building which dates from the 17th century complete with historic arts and crafts style gardens. It also boasts secret gardens, a small spa plus a restaurant. It is located in the Cotswolds’ village of Barnsley, four miles from Cirencester.
The Stroud Hotel in Stroud, Gloucestershire has just emerged from a multi-million-pound refurbishment. The hotel, formally known as The Imperial Hotel, has 24 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar, an events suite for up to 60 guests plus its latest addition - a secret garden.
Holiday Inn Oxford has just opened a new £12m extension block including 66 additional bedrooms and a new meeting room seating up to 100 delegates.
Escapade Silverstone, is a new trackside hotel at the home of British motorsport in Northamptonshire. It is planned to open in late August and will include 60 residences with views across the racetrack, a restaurant and bar, leisure facilities including a 15-metre swimming pool and events spaces.
In the North West:
The Queen of Chester hotel has completed its £5m refurbishment including upgrades to all 104 bedrooms, public spaces, meeting rooms and a new central bar. The hotel has 11 conference and meeting rooms with the two largest seating up to 120 delegates theatre style. It is located in City Road, a ten-minute walk from the centre of Chester.
Also in Chester, plans have been approved to convert a former bingo hall in the city centre into a seven-storey, 142-bedroom hotel with a ground floor restaurant. It will be located alongside the Shropshire Union Canal close to Chester station. We will monitor its progress.
Staying in Chester, plans have been submitted to create a 62-bedroom aparthotel above McDonald's in Foregate Street in the centre of Chester. We will monitor developments.
Hotel developments in the north of England:
Plans have been submitted for a new aparthotel in Bradford, West Yorkshire. If approved a five -storey, 100-bedroom unit is envisaged.
A new Radisson Blu Hotel has just opened in Sheffield city centre overlooking the Town Hall and Peace Gardens. It includes 154 bedrooms and suites, a rooftop speakeasy-style Indian restaurant and bar, six conference and events spaces, an outdoor terrace and a fitness centre.
Travelodge Rotherham Central is a new 69-bedroom hotel just opened at Forge Island in Rotherham. The group has also submitted plans to develop a new hotel with 80 bedrooms on the Old Station Yard at Corby railway station in Northamptonshire.
The Hotel Victoria has just reopened at Robin Hood’s Bay overlooking the North Yorkshire coastline. This follows a six-month, multi-million-pound refurbishment. The hotel has 23 bedrooms plus a restaurant and pub. Additional bedrooms are expected to open later in the year.
The Fleece Hotel, is a grade II-listed hotel in Richmond, North Yorkshire which closed in 2023. It is set to reopen shortly, under new ownership. The hotel has 13 bedrooms, apartments plus a 100-cover ground floor bar and restaurant. Reopening date to be advised.
Hotel Gotham Newcastle is a new hotel opening autumn 2025 in a former Fire Station and an adjacent Police Station in the city centre. The Fire Station side will have 60 bedrooms and suites plus a restaurant and bar. The Police Station side of the hotel which is expected to open late 2025 will include 30 bedrooms plus events space in the former Court rooms for up to 120 delegates.
Hotel news from Scotland:
The Resident is a new hotel opening in the centre of Edinburgh on 1st September. It opens with164 bedrooms and suites in what was Meldrum House, the former headquarters of His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs. It will have 164 bedrooms and suites. There is no restaurant on site although the hotel has arrangements with a range of cafes and restaurants in the vicinity.
Work has begun transforming Osborne House in Edinburgh’s Haymarket, a disused office block, into a new hotel. Once complete, the 1970s building will include 157 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant, bar and lounge, a residents’ bar plus an outside terrace. Meininger Hotels will operate the hotel, which is expected to open in spring 2026.
Glasgow Marriott Hotel with 303 bedrooms and suites has just completed a comprehensive renovation project and added new facilities including a Greatroom which encompasses reception, the lobby, a new lounge bar and a signature restaurant.
and finally:
OneCoWork is a co-working centre recently opened in Winckley Square in the centre of Preston - the first in the UK. OneCoWork offers events space and conference facilities as well co-working space, lounges, kitchens and a gym.
French budget hotel chain B&B Hotels currently with just one hotel in the UK at Heathrow Terminal 5 have just acquired five hotels at sites in central Birmingham, Ipswich, Inverness, Warrington and Derby. All are undergoing refurbishment over the coming months before rebranding. We will check developments.