Two proposed new hotel openings have been postponed owing to the uncertainty generated by the coronavirus outbreak.
THE PIG-at Harlyn Bay is a Grade-II listed mansion in Cornwall currently being converted into an 11-bedroom hotel set in five acres of garden. THE PIG-at Harlyn Bay has an additional 15 bedrooms and four private huts in separate buildings.
THE PIG-at Harlyn Bay features a restaurant, a private dining room, a lounge and a kitchen garden.
THE PIG - at Harlyn Bay is the seventh hotel in the PIG collection and the first in Cornwall. It was scheduled to open in May 2020. Hopefully it will be opening later this summer.
Meanwhile, the former De Vere Theobalds Estate hotel in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire has just completed an £8.5million overhaul and was set to relaunch as the first Birch-branded hotel in April 2020.
Birch is a new lifestyle hotel brand.
The Birch will have 140 bedrooms. It will feature co-working spaces and a members’ club, with ceramics workshops in the pottery studio, sourdough-making lessons in the interactive bakery, beekeeping and glass-blowing sessions plus other cultural events and yoga classes.
Birch Hotel also has two restaurants, three bars, a wellness space and screening, music and art rooms. You get the picture?
Again, a summer opening is envisaged, coronavirus permitting.