Departures


Left: Chester’s Eastgate Clock and Grosvenor Hotel;


Below from top: the five-star Chester Grosvenor Hotel & Spa; the wintery gardens of Chester Zoo; the Crowne Plaza’s Silks restaurant and hotel entrance


has 160 guestrooms – including executive suites – across seven floors, an indoor pool, fitness suite and Silks restaurant which, like some others in the city, takes on a horse-racing theme. A business centre is open from 8am to 6pm, with fax, copying and printing facilities, plus PCs with internet access and courier and secretarial services. Wifi internet access is charged for and available throughout the hotel. There are 11 meeting rooms at the hotel including the 600-capacity Kings Suite ‘with cool blue spotlights’ and the Roodee room for views across the border to the Welsh hills. Technical equipment available for use is comprehensive, with an LCD digital projector, plasma screens, 35mm slide projector, CD/DVD/VHS player, stage lighting and AV system all on offer.


Small but Perfectly Formed Mill Hotel Address: Milton Street, Chester, CH1 3NF Tel: 01244 350035 Email: reservations@millhotel.com Web: www.millhotel.com Chester’s Mill Hotel straddles the Shropshire Union Canal and is home to 129 guestrooms across five grades: Standard Class, Business Class, Premier Class, Club Class and the ‘extra special’ Champagne Room. Its impressive selection of dining options include the Canaletto Restaurant, Brasserie, Peppermill Trattoria, Real Ale Bar and the Restaurant Cruiser which is available for private lunch and dinner sailings. Its meeting facilities, meanwhile, cater for no more than 40 delegates and are for hire by room-only, day delegate rates or 24-hour rates. The hotel also has a ‘technogym’, swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and steamroom, free parking and free internet access.


On a Shoestring University of Chester Address: Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ Tel: 01244 513112 Email: conferences@chester.ac.uk Web: www.chester.ac.uk/business/conferences It’s not unusual for universities to offer decent meeting and event facilities at highly reasonable rates, and Chester University doesn’t disappoint. Rooms range from plenary and syndicate rooms for one-to- one meetings, through to lecture theatres for up to 300 – such as the Best, Beswick and Blinks venues – and the Molloy Hall with capacity for 400 delegates. An on-site AV team offer full support along with the latest equipment such as projectors, microphones, fixed and portable PA systems, screens, monitors and laptops. Accommodation is also available both on and off campus. Catering is provided by the experienced in-house team either at the chosen venue or in one of the large dining halls on site.


 Getting there


Both Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport are within a 45-minute drive of Chester, with flight connections across the UK. By rail, the West Coast line serves Cheshire, with services between Chester, Crewe, Warrington, Runcorn and Macclesfield. There are 13 direct trains from London Euston to Chester daily, with a journey time of around two hours. Chester lies close to both the M53 and M56 motorways which connect with the M6. See: www.meetinchesterandcheshire.com


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