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Countrywide Hotels expanding
Countrywide Hotels Group has just announced that it is taking over the operation of the Festival Hotel Group. The nine Festival Hotel properties will fall under the Countrywide Hotels umbrella as independently branded hotels.
The hotels, with a total of 401 bedrooms, are primarily located in the Midlands and North England. The portfolio includes:
Allerton Court Hotel in Northallerton
The Bridge Hotel and Spa in Wetherby
Comfort Inn Sunderland
Crab Manor & Lobster Restaurant in Thirsk
Hallgarth The Manor House in Durham
The New Hobbit Halifax
Three Ways House Hotel Chipping Campden
Wroxton House Hotel Banbury
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Hotel bedrooms for exhibitions
Conference News is reporting a new type of exhibition which is about to be staged in response to the Covid crisis.
The day-long exhibition, called A-Livex, will be held at the Royal Lancaster London Hotel on 26 January 2021. The major difference being trialled at this exhibition is that it will be hosted in the hotel bedrooms rather than using a large events space.
Fifty hotel bedrooms across three floors of the hotel will have their beds removed and each will operate as an exhibition booth or meeting room. There will also be conference rooms for panel discussions. A one-way system will be in operation and registration will include the need to make scheduled appointments.
The event organisers are planning for a maximum of 300 guests throughout the day, with 100 places already taken.
Mash Media, the event organisers, stress that the event is very much an experiment and an initiative to rebuild confidence in the safe running of events.
Under the current Tier system, indoor events for up to 1,000 are permitted in Tiers 1 and 2 areas, with this increasing 4,000 and 2,000 outdoors respectively. Tier 3 areas face much tighter restrictions. Any region showing a fall in rates could be upgraded to a lower Tier upon Government reassessment, which is scheduled every 14 days.
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Nobu Hotel London Portman Square opens
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square has just opened in central London.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square has 249 bedrooms. It features a Nobu Restaurant, a bar and outdoor terrace as well as a ballroom accommodating up to 600 guests, a gym, wellness facilities plus meeting and events spaces.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square previously operated as the Radisson Blu Portman Square and before that was the Portman InterContinental.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square is located in Portman Square, Marylebone near Marble Arch. It is the second Nobu Hotel to open in London joining Nobu Hotel London Shoreditch.
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New Hotel in St Helens
Signature Living is to open a new hotel this week in St Helens.
Rainhill Hall is a Grade II-listed country house set in 18 acres of woodland. It dates from the early 1800s and was used first as a private home and more recently as a Catholic retreat centre known as Loyola Hall.
Signature Living have since transformed Rainhill Hall into a hotel and wedding venue. Fourteen bedrooms have been added on the lower ground floor as well as events space and a spa.
The upper ground floor has ten rooms with meeting rooms, a restaurant, bar and a reception area. The two floors above have a further 23 bedrooms. Rainhill Hall also has a range of treehouses built in its 18 acres of grounds.
Rainhill Hall is located in Warrington Road in St Helens, midway between Liverpool and Manchester and just over a mile off the M62 motorway.
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OYO Plymouth Central opens
OYO Plymouth Central hotel has just opened – the first new hotel to open in Plymouth for more than a decade.
OYO Plymouth Central has 94 bedrooms and is situated over two storeys above the Poundland and PEP & Co retail outlets. The space was used as office accommodation prior to its conversion into a hotel.
OYO Plymouth Central has a continental breakfast room plus a communal lounge and a number of ‘business pods’.
OYO Plymouth Central has opened 54 bedrooms so far, offering double, twin, triple and quadruple occupancy.
The 40 remaining bedrooms will open at a later date. These will sleep between two and six guests and will have access to shared bathroom facilities with individual lockable shower units and lockers.
OYO Plymouth Central is located in New George Street, a 5-minute walk from Plymouth Hoe and around half a mile from Plymouth station.
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Two new hotels planned at London Olympia
Two new hotels are set to feature in Olympia London's new £1.3bn regeneration scheme.
The hotels will be a Hyatt and CitizenM.
Hyatt Regency London Olympia will include 196 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar plus four meeting rooms.
CitizenM London Olympia will have 145 bedrooms.
Construction is currently on-going. The new look Olympia London will also feature a 4,400-capacity, purpose-built live music venue. This will be located above the existing west exhibition hall.
Both Hyatt Regency London Olympia and CitizenM London Olympia are expected to open in 2024.