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New Holiday Inn Blackpool update
A new Holiday Inn Blackpool Hotel is scheduled to open in the summer of 2022. The hotel will form part of a wider regeneration project for Blackpool.
The Holiday Inn Blackpool will have 144 bedrooms and will feature a branch of Pierre White's New York Italian restaurant chain.
The Holiday Inn Blackpool will form the centrepiece of the new Talbot Gateway development in Blackpool.
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Bespoke Hotels add two
Bespoke Hotels have taken over the management of two hotels – Rothay Garden Hotel in Grasmere, Cumbria and The Celtic Royal Hotel in Caernarfon.
Effective from Sunday October 4, Bespoke Hotels will now work with the hotel teams to raise and develop the standards at the two hotels, bringing new ideas and practices to enable the properties to ‘reach their full potential’.
The Celtic Royal Hotel is situated between Snowdonia’s mountains and the sea. The Celtic Royal Hotel has 110 bedrooms and features Brasserie Draco serving a Mediterranean-style cuisine, a leisure club and meeting facilities. Celtic Royal Hotel is a five-minute walk from Caernarfon Castle.
Rothay Garden in Grasmere has recently completed a multi-million-pound redevelopment. Rothay Garden now offers 30 bedrooms and suites, a Garden Restaurant and the Riverside Spa.
Bespoke Hotels will now work to develop the standards at the two hotels. Bespoke Hotels, founded in 2000, has grown to represent over 200 properties worldwide.
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Two Travelodge PLUS hotels open in London
Travelodge have recently opened two new hotels, both in London - at London Stockley Park Hayes and London Mile End.
These latest additions are both Travelodge PLUS hotels bringing the total to 10 Travelodge PLUS hotels across the UK.
Travelodge PLUS hotels feature a choice of new style standard rooms or SuperRooms as well as a contemporary Bar Café serving breakfast and dinner plus drinks.
Parking is available at Travelodge Stockley Park Hayes on a first come first served basis. Travelodge London Stockley Park Hayes is within a five-minute drive of Heathrow Airport down the M4.
Travelodge London Mile End is within a mile of Bethnal Green and Stepney Green tube stations and five miles from London City Airport.
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Bodmin Jail Hotel opening early 2021
After almost 100 years of ruin, Bodmin Jail on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall will finally reopen, this time to visitors and guests, as The Bodmin Jail Hotel. It opens in February 2021.
The Bodmin Jail Hotel is built around the famous 18th century prison which in addition to housing notorious criminals was also a safe house for the Crown Jewels during the First World War.
The Bodmin Jail Hotel will have 70 bedrooms, created by combining three former cells, whilst retaining their original features such as the weathered stone walls and jail cell doors – and with the added attraction of free-standing baths, walk-in showers, luxury bedding and modern amenities.
The Chapel Restaurant at The Bodmin Jail Hotel will be housed in the jail’s old chapel with the Chapel Bar in what was once the Governor’s Office.
The Bodmin Jail Hotel will have three meeting spaces each fully equipped with the latest AV technology and accommodating up to 14 delegates.
Bodmin Jail Hotel is less than a mile from Bodmin station and offers plenty of on-site parking. Local attractions in addition to the moors and the Cornish beaches include the Eden Project.
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New INNSiDE Newcastle nears completion
Building work is nearing completion on the new INNSiDE Hotel on Newcastle-on-Tyne’s Quayside with an opening anticipated before the end of the year.
The £25million INNSiDE Newcastle will have 161 bedrooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a flat-screen TV with Chromecast plus a well-appointed bathroom with a rain shower and organic amenities. Many rooms will have views over the Newcastle Quayside.
INNSiDE Newcastle will be a lifestyle hotel designed for both work and leisure featuring an open living lounge and outdoor terrace, a 24-hour fitness centre and a Big Ideas Space.
INNSiDE Newcastle will have a range of meeting and events spaces comprising five flexible meeting rooms with integrated audiovisual equipment, high-speed wi-fi and air-conditioning. They will accommodate a combined 170 people banquet style.
INNSiDE Newcastle is minutes’ walk from Eldon Square in the centre of Newcastle-on-Tyne and half a mile from Newcastle on Tyne station. An on-site car park and landscaping will complete the package.
INNSiDE Hotels are members of the Melia Hotels stable. INNSiDE Newcastle joins INSiDE Manchester and INNSiDE Liverpool as the only other open and planned INNSiDE Hotels currently in the UK.
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New Moxy planned in Newcastle-on-Tyne
Plans have been published for a new £18million hotel at Newcastle Helix on Tyneside, the city’s 24 acre urban Innovation centre.
A 160-bedroom, seven-floor Moxy by Marriott featuring a cafe and bar and cycle parking, is planned.
Moxy by Marriott will aim to cater for business/corporate market as well as visitors to the centre of Newcastle on Tyne.
Moxy is Marriott International’s ‘millennial-focused boutique hotel’ concept. Other Moxy Hotels typically feature public spaces ranging from libraries and plug-in zones, to lounges and bars, with tech offerings including keyless mobile entry, mobile check in and check out, internet TV featuring the likes of Netflix and YouTube plus free wi-fi.
Moxy by Marriott currently has 13 hotels open and under development in the UK with three in Greater London including Heathrow, two in both Glasgow and Edinburgh plus hotels in Southampton, Slough and York.
The proposed Helix site for the new Moxy in Newcastle on Tyne is on a prominent gateway to the city and features science, tech and healthcare businesses.
A formal planning application for the new Moxy by Marriott will be submitted to the council at the end of October. Subject to planning permission from Newcastle City Council, the new Moxy Newcastle on Tyne is looking to open its doors in late 2021.