Departures
Opposite page: Eight miles from Reading, Henley’s
Royal Regatta is one of the region’s biggest events for corporate hospitality. Left: the Penta Hotel
Below from top: Wokingham Waterside Centre, Shehnai Conferences, Reading Town Hall, the Penta Hotel
is located a ten-minute walk from Reading train station. Its conference offering consists of nine meeting spaces, holding between 15 and 220 delegates. All rooms have natural lighting and air conditioning. Conference packages start at £39, which includes breakfast snacks with coffee and a light lunch. On-site accommodation consists of 206 contemporary bedrooms with wifi, monsoon rain showers and free in-room movies.
On a Shoestring Shehnai Conferences Address: 75 - 77, London Street Reading, RG1 4QA Tel: 01189 576 666 Web:
www.shehnaiuk.co.uk This conference and events-specific venue caters for events for ten through to 1,000 people, with a half-day delegate rate starting at £20 per person. The Olympia Suite is the largest space, followed by the Jalsa Suite for up to 150 and the Nazara Suite for 80 delegates. Conference packages include the use of screens and flipcharts, plus car parking and free wifi. Projectors and state-of-the-art audiovisual technology is also available. There’s an extensive range of menus, with Indian cuisine a speciality.
Wired Up Regus Reading Thames Valley Park Address: Thames Valley Park, Reading, RG6 1PT Tel: 0800 756 2558 Web:
www.regus.co.uk The Regus Centre is situated within a business park set amid an 80-acre nature reserve with a mile of frontage to the River Thames. It is a few minutes drive from the centre of Reading and has extensive onsite parking. There is 24-hour access to the business lounge, meeting rooms and break-out areas, with technical facilities including RegusNet high speed internet access and a videoconferencing studio. There’s also an onsite snack
and coffee bar and a sandwich service. The 14 meeting rooms generally cater for groups of between six and 24 people, though the Canterbury room has capacity for up to 40 delegates in a theatre, boardroom, classroom or u-shape configuration, and the largest space, the Sonning theatre, can hold up to 100 delegates.
Small but Perfectly Formed ECC Reading Address: Berkshire House, 252-256 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4HP Tel: 0118 956 6660 Web:
www.execentres.co.uk The ECC Reading is located one mile from the city centre and a few minutes’ drive from the M4, and has a dedicated on-site team for organising events and meetings. Meeting areas are available by the day, half- day or even by the hour. There are just two spaces, both set up as boardrooms – the Windsor room takes eight delegates and the Eton room can accommodate ten. There’s internet access, secretarial support, and advance AV technology, as well as a selection of beverage and catering options. A VIP package includes a chauffeur transport service and the use of an executive office for the duration of the booking.
Reading Info
The local airport for Reading is London Heathrow, which is a 25-minute drive along the M4. A half -hourly direct coach service between Heathrow and Reading Station called RailAir Link is also available. Gatwick Airport is about 75 minutes by road (M4/M25) and Southampton Airport is about an hour away. Reading is one of the busiest interchanges on the national rail network and has direct routes to almost every part of the UK.
READ MORE MEETING IN... AT
WWW.THEBUSINESSTRAVELMAG.COM I 79
69
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96