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■ Chicago’s Avenue Hotel offers shop discounts
Avenue Hotel in Chicago is offering a new
shopping season package until March 1, 2009.
British guests can enjoy discounts at dozens
of shops when they stay at the central hotel.
For more on prices and availability or to book
call 0870 160 9650, or visit the website at
avenuehotelchicago.com.
■ IHG to build three hotels in South Korea
Intercontinental Hotels Group is building three
hotels in South Korea, adding 1,000 rooms to its
portfolio in the country. The new Intercontinental
and two Holiday Inns will double the number
of IHG hotels in the country. All three are
expected to be completed by the second
quarter of 2009.
Yotel’s Simon Woodroffe (left) and Gerard Greene say their properties aim to recreate the creative spirit of 1960s Britain
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Iberostar’s Rose
Yotel opens first airside
opens in Jamaica
IBEROSTAR has opened its Rose Hall Suites near
hotel in Schiphol airport
Montego Bay in Jamaica and is offering guests
the chance to learn Jamaican dialect.
Rupert Murray.
Greene said the Amsterdam hotel would offer
The five-star suite-only all-inclusive resort YOTEL has opened its first airside hotel, at customers a space to work, relax or sleep either
is located on the beachfront and features Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. for a few hours during transit or an overnight stay.
presidential and junior suites with flatscreen The capsule hotel concept was created by Yotel has investment support of Kuwait-based
TV and 24-hour room service. former Dragons’ Den dragon Simon Woodroffe IFA Hotels & Resorts. Its chairman, Talal Jassim
It has a kids’ mini-club and sports including and is based on the design of a first-class airline Al-Bahar, said: “We are very excited about the
tennis, football, volleyball, gymnastics, and cabin. Chief executive Gerard Greene said it was opening of the first international Yotel.
dance lessons as well as language lessons includ- “the iPod of the hotel industry”. “Yotel is different from other investments we
ing Spanish and Jamaican patois. Yotel has already opened hotels at Heathrow have in the hotel sector and we believe it repre-
There is a spa with a hair salon, sauna, Jacuzzi and Gatwick but the “57-cabin” Amsterdam hotel sents the future. It is a brand that is going to
room, Roman bath, a bubble bath and a gym. is the first sited on the airside of passport control. grow exponentially in the next few years.”
The opening precedes the launch of Iberostar’s Woodroffe, who founded Yotel, added: “Yotel’s Cabins at the Schiphol Yotel feature Wi-Fi,
Grand Collection hotel, the Iberostar Grand Hotel signature formula of innovation and entertain- flatscreen TVs, an en suite bathroom and a
Rose Hall, which opens next month. ment fits well with Schiphol’s vision.” hand-made bed. Prices start at ¤35.
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