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HOTEL NEWS.
The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor
Square has undergone a refurb, creating 45
new club rooms and suites, adding a Club
Lounge, and a new Maze Grill restaurant
UK & Ireland
by Gordon Ramsay together with Jason
Atherton. The new rooms (right) include a fire-
place, a four-poster bed and marble bathroom.
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The Dorchester Collection is opening a luxury 69-room
country house hotel near Ascot in 2010. Coworth Park,
which stands in 200 acres of Surrey parkland, will have an
equestrian centre attached, with stabling for up to 40 horses,
2 polo fields and a practice field.
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Hilton will open a Hampton by Hilton property at Liverpool's
John Lennon airport this summer. The Hampton by Hilton
concept is described as a “new kind of economy hotel”,
with free wireless internet and free breakfast.
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hilton.com
Homewood Park, a von Essen property near Bath, has
undergone a £1 million refurbishment, due for completion
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in early March. All 19 luxury rooms have been overhauled
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and upgraded. A further £1 million is to be spent on a new
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might think, p56; Coming up What operators
and hoteliers have in store for 2009, p60
FERRIES NEWS.
Irish Ferries Holidays’ latest brochure has new self-catering and self-
drive options. New properties include Trim Castle in Co Meath, and the
five-star Sheraton Fota Island Hotel & Spa in Co Cork.
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Red Funnel has tied up with Ikea and painted one of its ferries in the blue
The Bourne Leisure Sales Team will and yellow of the Swedish retailer. Ikea is opening a store in Southampton.
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visit 300 travel agencies this year. They The ferry takes passengers from Southampton to the Isle of Wight.
will hand out merchandising materials ■
redfunnel.co.uk Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law
and a password for a chance to win prizes. spent time in Liverpool while filming
Pictured are Stuart Cowell, Bourne Leisure; Wightlink has two new ships for its Lymington-Yarmouth route, and Sherlock Holmes. Downey Jr was seen
Kat Lockyer, Co-op Travel, Gravesend; and replaced the FastCats on its Portsmouth-Ryde route with new catamarans. checking into Radisson SAS and Law spent a
Julie Dicken, Bourne Leisure ■
wightlink.co.uk few nights at the Vincent Hotel in Southport
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