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Hydro-hotel set to re-open after £4.5m facelift
BOURNEMOUTH'S original hydro-hotel on the resort's West Cliff is set to re-open later this summer following a major £4.5 million facelift.
When the Durley Dean Hotel first opened nearly a century ago guests flocked to sample its health enhancing treatments including Turkish baths and seawater plunge pool.
Folio Hotels is now transforming the hotel's 121 bedrooms, public areas, restaurants, bar, meeting room, leisure club and pool.
The interior design will follow a contemporary town house theme with traditional touches in keeping with the Victorian building.
Schemes for the bedrooms, including 20 executive rooms and a suite complete with four-poster bed, will incorporate four different designs.
The hotel will be launching two new restaurants - a brasserie style and à la carte eatery - and the five meeting rooms will be refurbished with free internet access for visitors and guests.
General manager Glyn Owen told the Daily Echo: "When we re-open it is our intention to re-establish ourselves as the best three-star hotel in Bournemouth.
"We will be investing in new training programmes to ensure that we offer an excellent product and standards of service at exceptional value for money."
The investment comes after leisure developers revealed plans to spent £43 million on three new hotels in the resort.
Following years of hotel closures to make way for flat blocks, the Isle of Wight-based Carlton Hotel Group unveiled plans to build two new four-star hotels on a prime East Cliff site.
The group is also intending to virtually double the size of the Tralee Hotel on the West Cliff, which will be run by a budget hotel operator.
10:21am Tuesday 20th May 2008
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CommentPosted by: colin.mc, newquay,cornwall on 8:25pm Wed 21 May 08
This is excellent news for the future of Bournemouth as a tourist/visitor destination. It is investment like this that puts it at the forefront of the tourist industry & maintains the town's vibrancy, choice & attraction to visitors from the UK and abroad.
There is a noticeable lack of comments here on this article from the usual doom & gloom merchants who adorn other articles with their sniping, misery & pathetic comments.
All too quick to criticise but never there to recognise positive progress.
Well done to the owners of these establishments & good luck to them with their endeavours.
This is excellent news for the future of Bournemouth as a tourist/visitor destination. It is investment like this that puts it at the forefront of the tourist industry & maintains the town's vibrancy, choice & attraction to visitors from the UK and abroad.
There is a noticeable lack of comments here on this article from the usual doom & gloom merchants who adorn other articles with their sniping, misery & pathetic comments.
All too quick to criticise but never there to recognise positive progress.
Well done to the owners of these establishments & good luck to them with their endeavours.
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