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Spring Launch for The Retreat Elcot Park
The Signet Collection is planning to launch The Retreat Elcot Park in spring 2022. It is the group’s second hotel and joins The Mitre Hampton Court.
The Retreat Elcot Park is housed in a Grade II-listed 18th-century building dating back to 1772. It is located between Hungerford and Newbury.
The Retreat Elcot Park will include 55 bedrooms and two restaurants - an all-day dining brasserie and a pan-Asian restaurant. Leisure facilities will include a health club, with pools, treatment rooms, steam and sauna, a gym, spin studio and wellness area plus tennis courts, an outdoor infinity pool, croquet lawns and a children’s zone.
The Retreat Elcot Park will feature several meeting and events spaces plus several private dining areas – capacities await publication.
The Retreat Elcot Park will have good transport links to the M4, M3 and A34 and will be around 45 minutes by train from central London.
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Go ahead for new hotel in Birmingham
A new 17-storey hotel in the centre of Birmingham featuring a sky bar has been given the go-ahead by city planning officials.
The 152-bedroom hotel is set to be located within Phase Two of the city’s Paradise Birmingham development. It will sit alongside One Centenary Way and Three Chamberlain Square.
The hotel is set to feature a sky/ bar restaurant on the 16th floor plus a ground floor restaurant and bar.
When the building project is completed, the Paradise Birmingham project will also include up to seven office buildings, a residential tower and other ancillary retail and leisure facilities, as well as new public spaces.
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Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel opens in central Glasgow
Formerly the Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor, the four-star hotel has undergone a rebranding and reopened in the New Year under new ownership, new management and with a new name - The Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel.
Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel has 97 bedrooms plus a restaurant and bar.
Meeting and events facilities at Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel include the main Grosvenor Suite seating up to 400 delegates theatre style. Three other meeting rooms will accommodate between 50 and 120 delegates theatre style with a boardroom seating 12 delegates completing the meeting and events package.
The Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel is located in a converted terrace of Venetian-style townhouses in Byres Road overlooking Glasgow Botanic Gardens in Glasgow’s West End, 10 minutes from the city centre.
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Fairmont Windsor Park now open
The Arora Group has just opened Fairmont Windsor Park hotel. It is set within a 150-acre estate in Windsor’s Great Park.
Fairmont Windsor Park has 251 luxury bedrooms and suites plus seven food and beverage outlets. Fairmont Spa & Wellness offers a huge array of pioneering wellness facilities including sports performance coaching, an indoor gym with a reformer Pilates studio, outdoor tennis courts and a hair salon.
Meeting and events facilities at Fairmont Windsor Park are located within a dedicated wing of the hotel. They include 15 meeting rooms with views of the surrounding countryside and direct access to the hotel's gardens. Facilities include an 800sq-mt pillar-free ballroom that can cater for events up to 700 guests.
Fairmont Windsor Park is situated adjacent to Windsor Great Park and the Savill Garden, and is close to Windsor Castle. It is seven miles from London Heathrow Airport and within an hour of central London.
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Ruby planning number four
German-based Ruby Hotels group is planning its fourth hotel in London. The group plan to launch it in Southwark in early 2024. The new Ruby Hotel in Southwark is to be built in a new public space called “Friars Yard” in Blackfriars Road.
Ruby Hotel in Southwark will have 169 bedrooms over seven floors, ranging in size from cosy ‘Nest’ rooms to expansive ‘Loft’ rooms. It will feature a 24-hour bar, café and lounge on the ground floor.
Ruby Hotel in Southwark will be a short walk from Tate Modern, the Southbank, Borough Market and Southwark tube station and around ten minutes from London Waterloo Station.
Ruby Hotel in Southwark will join stablemates Ruby Lucy on the South Bank which opened in 2020, Ruby Zoe which is due open in Notting Hill early 2023 and Ruby Stella in Clerkenwell also planned to open in 2023. When Ruby Hotel in Southwark opens it will bring the total group capacity to 571 hotel rooms in London.
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Palé Hall joins Pride of Britain
Palé Hall, an AA Five Red Star hotel overlooking Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, is the latest recruit to join the Pride of Britain collection.
Palé Hall has 18 bedrooms in the main house plus four garden suites within the grounds and features three dining spaces including the three AA Rosette, award winning Henry Robertson Dining Room.
Pride of Britain is a not-for-profit organisation representing some of the best independent hotels in Britain. The collection was formed in 1982 and Palé Hall, takes the Pride of Britain Collection up to 53 properties.