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Yet another new hotel planned in Liverpool
We recently reported that the Gostin's Building, a Liverpool landmark, is set to be converted into a hotel. The Fattal Group have been given the green light to convert the building into a 207-bedroom NYX by Leonardo Hotel – the group’s "lifestyle concept" hotel brand.
The Fattal Group has now received planning permission to open a 283-bedroom Leonardo Hotel as part of Liverpool's Pall Mall development, with a ground floor bar and lounge, first floor restaurant, meeting rooms and a gym.
Both hotels are expected to open in the next two years.
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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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Liverpool Drugstore to become a Hotel
The Gostin's Building is a Liverpool landmark and now apprLiverpool Drugstore to become a Hoteloval has just been granted to convert it into a hotel.
Gostin's Building was built for Ayrton Saunders and Co, a drugstore wholesaler who occupied it until the 1990s when it became a furniture store and warehouse.
New owners, the Fattal Group, have been given the green light to convert the building into a 207-bedroom NYX by Leonardo Hotel – the group’s "lifestyle concept" hotel brand. The new hotel will also include a two-storey rooftop extension
The Gostin's Building is located within Liverpool's World Heritage Site and the Duke Street Conservation Area. It is also part of the Liverpool One development.
NYX by Leonardo Hotel will become the fourth hotel in the group joining the former 201-bedroom Grange Holborn which relaunched in May plus a planned new build 261-bedroom NYX in Birmingham and a conversion of a listed building adjacent to the Edinburgh Jurys Inn.
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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.