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Hotels & resorts
Rupert Murray
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rmurray@ttglive.com
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Rex offers 30%
festive discount
CARRIBEAN hotels operator Rex Resorts is
offering a 30% discount over the Christmas and
New Year period.
The offer applies from December 23 to
January 3 at the chain’s resorts in Antigua, St
Lucia, Barbados, Grenada and Tobago.
At Halcyon Cove in Antigua, there will be ca-
lypso, soca and reggae dance classes, a Christmas
Eve Dinner at the hotel’s Warri Pier, overlooking
the sea, and a barbecue and steel drum band.
On New Year’s Eve at the Grenadian, in
Grenada, there will be an Old Year’s Night Party,
featuring performances by Trinidadian band
Surface, as well as a local DJ.
Seven-night holidays start at £950 a person,
and are available from operators including
Cosmos, Virgin Holidays and Kuoni.
“Walking trees” handed out cookies to passers-by to mark the opening of Doubletree’s first property in central London
Doubletree opens
first London hotel
Kay McLellan.
and for people who ask how we will cope with
DOUBLETREE Hotels, the Hilton brand, has opening a new hotel in a time of economic
opened its first property in central London with trouble, my answer is that it is actually the 18th
the rebranding of the Courthouse Hotel. Hilton hotel in London.
The 112-room hotel, on Great Marlborough “We are able to launch off the Hilton platform.
Street, is Doubletree’s fifth European hotel and We have 240 deals in the pipeline around the
third in the UK, joining properties in Cambridge globe and are bullish in our development plans.
and Aberdeen. “There is a tremendous base of independent
FIR TREE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW: The The brand, which has more than 200 hotels hotels in Europe, but in the financial markets,
Park Plaza Riverbank London is running worldwide, aims to have 20 UK sites within five banks are insisting on hotels being branded – the
a silent Christmas tree auction in aid of years. market is moving towards that.
the Evelina Children’s Hospital. They have Doubletree is currently undertaking a multi- “Historically, the Hilton brand does well in
been decorated by luxury brands such as million-pound redevelopment of the Dunblane down markets. It is an opportunity for growth.”
Fortnum & Mason and Wedgewood, and Hydro, while the Hoole Hall Country Club and The Courthouse Doubletree is a former
the highest bidder for each wins the good- Hotel in Chester will open next year, as part of a magistrates court that heard cases involving
ies on and under the tree. A “travel tree” franchise agreement with Sanguine Hospitality. Oscar Wilde and Sir Mick Jagger.
offers a trip to Iceland. Bids will be taken Dave Horton, Doubletree’s senior vice-presi- It is designed to retain much of its historic
for the next six weeks. Launching the dent, said the brand would benefit from the feel, with the old courtroom becoming the
initiative are last year’s winner of I’m A strength and backing of the Hilton name. Michelin-recommended Silk restaurant.
Celebrity..., Christopher Biggins, and “London is one of the prime markets in the The hotel also offers a Sanook Spa, events
hospital patient Marieka Carling. world,” he said. “Hilton has 17 hotels in London facilities and private cinema seating 94 people.
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