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Cook’s Club hotel range to ‘bring urban cool to beach’


Phil Davies phil.davies@travelweekly.co.uk


Thomas Cook aims to attract a new audience to package holidays with a new “stripped back” hotel brand.


The first Cook’s Club property


will open in Crete this summer and up to 15 are planned to be operating by summer 2019. Cook’s Club Crete will be a


148‑room fully‑refurbished hotel in Hersonissos, on the island’s north coast. It has been designed to focus on


the things Cook believes matter to a new generation of traveller, featuring “well‑designed, simple rooms” with “great food, excellent drinks and DJs providing a soundtrack around the swimming pool from daytime to sundown”. The move builds on the Casa Cook boutique lifestyle hotel concept, bringing a combination of “style and substance” at a price point designed to attract a wide audience. Prices start at £449 per person


for seven nights’ self‑catering, based on two adults flying from Luton airport on June 9. Remo Masala, creative director for Thomas Cook’s own‑brand


Kanika set to open ‘first’ couples-only property in Cyprus


Kanika Hotels & Resorts is to open a couples‑only hotel in Paphos, Cyprus, this September. The Amavi Hotel Paphos will


offer 155 rooms and suites, and direct access to a Blue Flag beach. There will be five room


PAPHOS: The new Amavi hotel will open in September


26 travelweekly.co.uk 26 April 2018 COOK’S CLUB CRETE: The hotel is the first in a new ‘stripped back’ range


“Cook’s Club focuses on things that matter to modern travellers: simple design, food and lively atmosphere”


hotels, said: “We have seen with Casa Cook that we can disrupt the beach hotel market at the higher, design‑centred end. “With Cook’s Club we have stripped it back to focus on the things that matter to modern travellers: simple design, food, drink and a lively atmosphere.


“It’s our opportunity to demonstrate that Thomas Cook is leading the way in bringing a sense of urban cool to the beach.” The Crete hotel features two


swimming pools surrounded by a casual dining space, Cantina, and bar, Captain Cook. Cantina will serve “street food”,


vegan options and local dishes with breakfast all morning and dinner until late into the evening. Rooms and apartments


with a small kitchen offer accommodation for single


travellers and groups of up to six. thomascook.com/holidays/ cooks-club


categories, two outdoor swimming pools and one indoor pool, a fitness centre, tennis court and spa with twin treatment rooms. The hotel promises half‑board


“premium gastronomy” across four restaurants and three bars. ‘Sophisticated’ live


entertainment will be performed every evening from its opening date of September 29. Kanika Hotels & Resorts says the property will be the first


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Florida’s Cheeca Lodge reopens after Irma damage


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couples‑only hotel in Cyprus. Agents who make three bookings at Amavi Hotel Paphos will qualify for a complimentary seven‑night stay. The incentive runs until December 31 and flights are not included. Spyros Karaolis, executive chairman of Kanika Hotels & Resorts, said: “It is our way of responding to the latest market


trends and couples’ dreams.” kanikahotels.com


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