easyHotel, the super budget hotel chain owned by easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has re-established a presence in Scotland’s largest city with a £2.3m property purchase. The 125-room hotel on Glasgow’s Hill St, previously owned by an easyHotel franchisee, doubles easyHotel’s exposure to the booming Scottish market, with next year’s Ryder Cup golf tournament and … [Read more...]
What next for Masterchef finalists?
The winner of Masterchef: The Professionals was announced in the series' final programme on Thursday last week after a competition that produced three of the best finalists ever seen. Steven Edwards went on to beat runners up Adam Handing and Scott Davies in the ninth series of the BBC One programme, and acknowledged on BBC Breakfast that the final had been "really … [Read more...]
UK hotel rates on the decline as they buck European trend
Statistics from the Hotel Price Radar conducted by leading hotel portal HRS show a general decrease in average room prices in the UK in the third quarter of 2013. The overall trend saw the most popular UK cities reduce their prices, in comparison to the same period last year. Only three cities saw an increase in average room price per night – London, Manchester and Reading … [Read more...]
Surge in London’s serviced apartment sector
New research from Jones Lang LaSalle’s Hotels & Hospitality team highlights the surge of development activity in the serviced apartment sector since the Olympic Games, and the growth in appetite for the sector in central London from the investor and development markets. Many apartments are either part of residential, hotel or mixed use developments, and while London is … [Read more...]
Scarfes Bar for the Rosewood London
The Rosewood London on High Holborn, which opened in October, has now announced that Gerald Scarfe, the well known British artist and caricaturist, will lend his name and artistic vision to ‘Scarfes Bar’ in the Rosewood. Gerald Scarfe has spent time at Scarfes Bar over recent months, drawing on the atmosphere and design for inspiration, and evolving it into a living canvas in … [Read more...]