Christian Guild Hotels to sell two properties for £3m

Two hotels owned and operated by Christian Guild Hotels are to be sold, leaving the group with just three properties. The 61-bedroom Abbot Hall hotel in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, and the 23-bedroom Lindors Country House hotel (pictured) in Lydney, Gloucestershire, each carry a price tag of £1.5m.

700,000 Heures, a newly launched hotel group, will pop-up in different locations this year, moving every few months. The first will be located in Puglia’s Gagliano del Capo (opening September), in a traditional palace. Activities will include fishing trips for urchins, outings to hidden beaches and pasta …

HARTFORD — The fourth floor of the Red Roof Inn felt like a city block on a recent Friday night, as families spilled from their rooms into the hallway. Doors were propped open. Chihuahuas skittered around on the carpet, and a cluster of teenage boys had claimed a spot by the elevators, a speaker thumping …

Four seaside hotels within the family-owned Richardson Hotels business have been placed on the market after the company went into administration owing money to the taxman. Colliers International has been instructed to sell the 58-bedroom, four-star Metropole Hotel in Padstow; the Grade II-listed, …

New York’s already stellar hotel scene has gotten some serious upgrades of late. Visiting finance types looking to base themselves in lower Manhattan may be tempted to book into the retro-inspired Beekman hotel or the minimalist Four Seasons Downtown, which looks straight onto Calatrava’s stark-white …

If friends have bored you senseless with tales of transatlantic ski holidays, point them back to France, where two of the season’s biggest hotel openings are imports from across the Pond. Megève and La Rosière in the Savoie Mont Blanc region have both bucked the trend for new accommodation by local, …

Homegrown fashion and beauty brands Sézane and Ex Nihilo are using technology to change the way Parisians shop. And even venerable hotels such as the Ritz and the Crillon have been overhauled, giving the tradition-obsessed city an utterly fresh feel. Here’s where to eat, shop, and explore right now.

England football fans face paying more than 11 times the typical cost of a hotel room when they travel to Russia this summer for the World Cup. Accommodation owners in cities set to host matches for Russia 2018 – including lesser-known destinations such as Yekaterinburg, Saransk and Nizhny Novgorod …

Sir Richard Branson has announced that the UK’s first Virgin Hotel is to open in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. The 225-room hotel, set to open in 2020, will take over the 19th-century India Buildings, on Victoria Street in the Old Town. Virgin HotelsEdinburgh will be home to multiple bars and restaurants, …

gidleigh park, devon, england The destination restaurant at Gidleigh Park has clung on to its two Michelin stars since the days when Michael Caines ran the kitchen. Credit: MARK BOLTON PHOTOGRAPHY. Rating restaurants and hotels is a funny old business. At one end of the spectrum there is the …