News From Accor Hotels

We had a visit from Accor last month and they told us about their plans for the future and updated us on the latest new from their hotels.  They have about 3,500 properties worldwide and are building/acquiring an additional 800 new hotels over the new two years.  Most of this growth will be in Asia, but some will bein Europe and roughly 100 of these will be in the UK.

• The 4-star Pullman Liverpool Hotel will open in January 2016.  The hotel has great transport links and is located at Kings Dock on Liverpool’s waterfront and is connected to ACC Liverpool. It is a new build hotel with  216 bedrooms.  The maximum capacity of the meeting space is 130 people theatre-style or 150 for a drinks reception.

• The Mercure Sheffield and the Mercure Mercure Cardiff have just been refurbed

• The Mercure Hyde Park is due to open in Oct 2015

• A new MGallery in Leicester Square is currently being build at will openin 2016

• The Novotel Canary Wharf is a new build, opening date to be confirmed

• Accor has built The Trocadero in Piccadilly and is going to be made into an Ibis

• The Novotel Madrid will be opening in November 2015 with 790 bedrooms and 21 meeting rooms.

We will write full report on the hotels when they open, so come back to The Word, for more information in due course.