SACO The Serviced Apartment Company has seen six of its locations – including the recently opened SACO Manchester Piccadilly – rated four star by Quality in Tourism (QiT).
They are:
- SACO Bath – St James’s Parade 4*
- SACO Birmingham – Brindleyplace 4* Gold Award
- SACO Bristol – Broad Quay 4* Gold Award
- SACO Holborn – Lamb’s Conduit Street 4* Gold Award
- SACO Canary Wharf – Trinity Tower 4* Gold Award
- SACO Manchester – Piccadilly 4*
A Gold Award reflects a very high level of quality and properties achieving Gold Award status have exceptional levels of quality, comfort and cleanliness in bedrooms and bathrooms and outstanding levels of customer care.
QIT is a reliable regulatory body which carries out a quality assessment on accommodation providers and accredits a star rating based on services, facilities and quality of living delivered.
Of the locations awarded, QiT made the following observations:
| Location | Comment |
| SACO Bath – St James’s Parade | SACO Bath continues to present well and themanagement team is to be congratulated for maintaining standards so conscientiously over the longer term. |
| SACO Birmingham – Brindleyplace | A range of well-appointed apartments provide highquality accommodation, convenient for Birmingham city centre and attractions. |
| SACO Bristol – Broad Quay | A striking contemporary block of apartments,providing a high standard of comfortably appointed accommodation convenient for Bristol city centre, water front and attractions. |
| SACO Holborn – Lamb’s Conduit Street | Commendable to note quality levels consistentlymaintained since the last visit, with further investment and upgrading helping to ensure guest requirements at this standard continue to be met in an increasingly demanding marketplace. |
| SACO Canary Wharf – Trinity Tower | A striking cylindrical tower continuing to offer anextremely good standard of contemporary apartment accommodation in the hub of Docklands. |
| SACO Manchester – Piccadilly | These new apartments provide comfortableaccommodation located in the city centre. |
SACO’s Managing Director, Stephen Hanton, says, “We strive to be the leaders in the serviced apartment industry and take great care in everything we do to ensure ultimate guest satisfaction. From the point of booking to the moment a guest checks out, we want them to feel they’re in expert hands. We take part in Quality in Tourism because we have great pride in the product and service we offer and appreciate external validation and this recognition is invaluable.’’
About SACO The Serviced Apartment Company
- Created in 1997 because founders David and Lesley Freed loved the benefits that serviced apartments offer business and leisure travellers
- SACO believe that apartments offer better value, an easier way to stay away and give travellers a wider range of choices that are not available with traditional hotel thinking
- SACO operates its own portfolio of over 600 apartments and has a global network of over 30,000 apartments across 220 key destinations in 50 countries through carefully selected partners
- The company’s corporate headquarters are in Bristol and employs over 150 staff
For more information about SACO The Serviced Apartment Company click here
About Quality in Tourism
- Quality in Tourism (QiT) is the official assessment service provided for VisitEngland. With a field force of more than 60 experienced assessors and a highly dedicated in-house team, the organisation carries out assessments and handles the administration of the national quality assessment schemes on behalf of VisitEngland.
- Over 18,000 accommodation businesses are assessed annually across eleven different schemes, making VisitEngland (in conjunction with Quality in Tourism) the largest provider of quality assessment in England.