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Pan Pacific London is a new hotel located in a mixed-use development at One Bishopsgate Plaza in the City of London. It is expected to open first quarter 2021.
Pan Pacific London will have 237 bedrooms and suites plus two restaurants and bars. Leisure facilities will include a fully equipped gym, treatment rooms, an indoor infinity pool and a fitness area.
Pan Pacific London will feature 1,213 square metres of dedicated meeting space with nine flexible meeting rooms over two floors of the hotel plus a Ballroom to accommodate from two to 400 guests.
Pan Pacific London is located in Houndsditch in London’s Square Mile, a stones-throw from a range of London sights including St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Museum of London, the River Thames, Tower Bridge and The Tower of London.
Accor Hotels group has agreed to turn its five-star London hotel, The Curtain, into a Mondrian hotel thus marking the brand’s return to London. Mondrian London Shoreditch will be Mondrian's sixth hotel and a European flagship.
The hotel is currently undergoing an update and a restyle. When it reopens the Mondrian London Shoreditch will have 120 bedrooms and suites. It will also include a Michelin-star restaurant, a rooftop pool and restaurant Lido, a spa and the Curtain Members Club which will continue to operate under its current name.
Mondrian London Shoreditch is located in Curtain Street in the heart of Shoreditch, London's ‘creative and cultural’ hub and a short walk from Old Street station.
NoMad London is a new hotel opening in February in London’s Covent Garden. The building, formerly Bow Street Magistrates Court and Police Station dates from the 19th century.
NoMad London will be a 91-bedroom boutique hotel.
NoMad London will feature the NoMad restaurant comprising three rooms: The Atrium, a three-storey space enclosed by a glass ceiling, plus the Atrium bar and the Fireplace Room.
The original Magistrates Courtroom will become the Magistrates Ballroom accommodating up to 75 guests with two side meeting rooms.
NoMad London is a short walk from the Covent Garden Underground on the Piccadilly Line, and is within walking distance of Soho, the River Thames and Leicester Square.
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The Coronavirus has resulted in a delayed opening of many new hotels throughout the UK. We have put together a list of the new hotels and will feature them over the next few days. Starting in London the range of properties ‘waiting in the wings’ includes:
Beaverbrook Hotel has been created from two Georgian townhouses in Sloane Street in the heart of Chelsea. It is set to launch summer 2021.
The Beaverbrook Hotel will feature 14 luxury suites plus a Japanese restaurant.
The Beaverbrook Hotel will serve as a city outpost of The Beaverbrook Hotel, a country house hotel, with golf club attached, which opened in Surrey in 2017.
Beaverbrook Town House will be located opposite Cadogan Place Gardens in Chelsea.
The Broadwick Soho is a new 57-bedroom, independent luxury hotel expected to open in September 2021 with 57 bedrooms, many with private balconies overlooking the street - and including one penthouse and nine suites.
The Broadwick Soho will also feature an Italian restaurant plus a rooftop cocktail bar.
The Broadwick Soho has been described as “your eccentric godmother’s Soho Townhouse”. Make of that what you will. If you want to find out head to the corner of Broadwick Street and Berwick Street in London’s Soho this September.
Locke Aparthotels have just opened open their fourth London property - Kingsland Locke in Dalston.
Kingsland Locke has 124 studio apartments plus a restaurant, a workout studio, a coffee shop and co-working space.
Kingsland Locke also feature an on-site micro-brewery and gin distillery plus an atrium space which becomes a bar in the evening.
Kingsland Locke is located in Kingsland Road in Dalston. It joins Bermonds Locke, Leman Locke and the Locke at Broken Wharf, all in London.
More new openings following…..
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Two new hotels planned in Nottingham
IHG Group is the proposed operator of a 223-bedroom hotel complex planned for the new Island Quarter development in Nottingham. The Island Quarter project is a £650m redevelopment of the former Boots Island site in the city.
The development will include a 17-storey Hotel Indigo with 155 bedrooms and suites plus a Staybridge Suites with 68 apartments.
The Island Quarter Nottingham is a 40-acre development designed to preserve the heritage of the site. It will be a new quarter for hotels, offices, living, restaurants and bars and cultural events, all linked by acres of public access green space.
Plans have been submitted to Nottingham City Council.
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Our next batch of planned new hotel openings includes:
The opening of The Londoner has suffered several delays but now it is scheduled to open in April 2021.
The Londoner is a 16-storey, five-star, purpose-built hotel with 350 bedrooms including 15 suites, six restaurants and featuring a rooftop bar.
Events-wise the Londoner will include a main Ballroom to accommodate over 800 guests. The Gallery suite will include seven meeting rooms all connected to a central lounge. The Green Room will seat up to 150 delegates for a meeting or reception.
The Londoner will be operated by Edwardian Hotels and will join its sister property, The May Fair Hotel also in London.
The Londoner is located on the south west corner of Leicester Square in central London.
Chateau Denmark is a new luxury apartment hotel opening summer of 2021 – and the perfect place to reminisce and possibly relive a misspent youth.
Denmark Street is steeped in musical heritage. It is where The Rolling Stones recorded their first album, where the Sex Pistols once lived and where Jimi Hendrix was a regular visitor. So you can expect the colourful history to be reflected in the style and décor of the hotel.
Chateau Denmark will comprise 55 apartment suites each featuring ‘maxi-bars’ in place of minibars plus “session rooms”, all set across 16 properties in and around Denmark Street.
Location-wise Chateau Denmark is right in the heart of Soho.
Ruby Stella is the latest London offering from German-based Ruby Hotels.
Ruby Stella is due to open In London’s Clerkenwell in the first quarter of 2021. It will join Ruby Lucy which opened last year on London’s Southbank.
Ruby Stella will be a new purpose-built hotel with 154 bedrooms ranging from cosy ‘Nest’ rooms to expansive ‘Loft’ rooms. They are equipped with all the requisites you would expect to find in a top-grade hotel including soundproofing, blackout curtains, high quality linen and wide custom mattresses. Quirky features include Marshall guitar amps in every room which guests can use both with their own guitar or one borrowed from reception. Check-in will be done via a tablet computer.
‘Ruby Radio’ will be Ruby Stella’s own internet radio station.
A trendy communal space will serve a healthy breakfast without the need for a kitchen. Vending machines and ironing stations will supply guests with all their needs.
Ruby Stella is located on Eyre Street Hill, a short walk from Farringdon station.
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Graduate Hotels – Cambridge and Oxford arriving 2021
USA-based Graduate Hotels group is due to makes its maiden venture across the Atlantic in Spring 2021 and will open its first European hotels in Oxford and Cambridge.
The 148-bedroom Graduate Cambridge was formerly the Doubletree by Hilton Cambridge City Centre. The hotel will undergo a complete refurbishment of all its bedrooms plus its pool and fitness centre. The Graduate Cambridge will feature Poindexter, the Graduate Hotels’ café and bar concept, as well as a refurbished full-service restaurant.
Graduate Cambridge will include seven meeting and events suites including the main Magdalene Ballroom accommodating up to 200 guests.
Graduate Cambridge is situated along the banks of the River Cam on Mill Lane in the centre of Cambridge.
Meanwhile the Graduate Oxford property was previously the Macdonald Randolph Hotel which is now undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment of its bedrooms and communal spaces.
The Graduate Oxford will have 151 bedrooms. Expect a boutique-styled hotel taking its inspiration from the local architect and landmark sites in Oxford as well as an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theming. The Alice will be Graduate Oxford’s all-day brasserie, with the Morse Bar named after the television detective who solved Oxford’s many and varied crimes.
The Magdalene Ballroom will be the main events suite accommodating up to 250 guests and supported by two smaller meeting rooms. Leisure facilities will include a fully equipped gym.
Graduate Oxford is surrounded by the University of Oxford and its various colleges, including Trinity and St. John’s as well as the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Graduate Hotels Group currently has 21 operating hotels in towns across the U.S., including: Washington, Athens, Georgia, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Berkeley, California; Providence, Rhode Island and Seattle amongst others. An additional 12 properties are under development and scheduled to open by the end of 2021.
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Carbon-zero hotel planned in York
Plans have been submitted to build a new zero carbon hotel in York.
The proposed new hotel, with 99 bedrooms, would be sited on the Mill House car park site, off North Street in the centre of York. It would be the first hotel in the country to generate net zero carbon emissions and would also showcase sustainable features such as solar PV and a biodiverse green wall.
No onsite food or beverage facilities are planned at the new hotel although there is no shortage of hospitality options in the immediate vicinity. The new hotel would have no car parking spaces either, further enhancing its carbon reduction emission credentials. It would also reflect York's aspiration to become the UK's first car-free city centre.
A planning application for the proposed new hotel has been submitted.