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Rupert Murray
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In brief
■ Travelodge offers winter rooms for £9
Travelodge is selling more than 50,000 rooms
for £9 each. The offer applies to all of its UK
hotels which means that a family of four
would pay £2.25 per person. The hotel group
said its winter sale was designed to “ease the
pressure of the festive season, especially
with the credit crunch in full force”. All
bookings must be made by September 21
for stays between December 1 and February
22, 2009.
■ Marriott to open three hotels in France
Marriott International is planning to open three
Courtyard by Marriott hotels in France over
the next three years. Two will be in suburban
Paris, opening in 2009 and 2010, the other in
Marseilles, opening in 2011.
TANKED UP: Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond set
■ Truce between Hyatt hotel and Saudi royal staff at Guoman Hotels’ The Tower in London a challenge – to valet-park their tank.
A truce has been reached between an Egyptian The trio thundered over Tower Bridge in a stretched 434 Armoured Personnel Carrier
hotel owner and US hotel chain Hyatt after he on their way to the hotel to launch their forthcoming live stage tour of the BBC show
banned alcohol. The five-star Grand Hyatt in
Cairo was dry for weeks after Sheikh Abdel
Aziz Ibrahim, a member of the Saudi royal
family, poured 2,500 bottles of alcohol down
the drain. A compromise was reached and
UK’s first serviced
alcohol is now served in the hotel’s 41st-floor
restaurant.
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locations that will best meet their individual
SERVICED apartment company Saco has set needs.
up the UK’s first specialist travel agency for “The agency helps us to ensure that booking
booking serviced accommodation. an apartment is made as convenient as possible
Based in Lambs Conduit Street in Holborn, for both leisure and business travellers alike.
London, the agency has been opened to offer “It provides them with the choice to meet and
customers face-to-face information and advice talk to a person rather than over the phone
on the company’s network of 12,000 serviced or online if that is the way the customer likes
apartments across 35 countries. to book.
Saco said it was continuously expanding “It is already attracting a lot of interest from
its portfolio and this year was focusing on both business and leisure customers, including
growth in London. local businesses, that are realising the benefits
In the past four months, the company has of serviced apartments as an alternative
THE PREFERRED HOTEL GROUP is to opened three locations, in Canary Wharf, Covent to hotels, as well as a large amount of passing
open a property in New York in October Garden and most recently Holborn, which is trade.”
under the Sterling Hotel brand. Stay, situated above the new travel agency. Redman added that the company had ensured
which is a sister hotel to US hotels The Jo Redman, sales and marketing director, said: that the agency’s staff had an in-depth
Time, Dream and Night, and Thailand’s “We are delighted to be in a position to extend knowledge of all of the apartments, allowing
Dream Bangkok, has 208 rooms and our services by providing a place where people them to tailor-make trips according to
is located in Times Square. can drop in for advice on apartments and customers’ specific requirements.
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