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Thirty odd years ago, a hotel’s business centre was essential to business travellers: without it, you simply couldn’t communicate. You needed the fax back then for a start and later when the internet arrived you needed a networked computer to connect to it (and wouldn’t imagine getting one in your room). In fact, you relied on [...]
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A few weeks ago we published a photo blog about the Tune Hotel Liverpool Street under construction and were excited to then see it open ahead of schedule just before the New Year. Now the brand new budget hotel is almost fully operational and we were thrilled to visit it the other day and enjoy a tour from its friendly General Manager. We were happy to find [...]
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Tune Hotels has taken to Twitter to give followers an exclusive insight into the behind the scenes run-up to a hotel opening. The budget hotel chain‘s new property in the City of London, located just 500m from Liverpool Street station, has been flying up as you can see from the snaps… The hotel’s rooms are nearly [...]
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A new website, Inclusive London, launched at the beginning of this year by the Greater London Authority (GLA), promised to make it easier for visitors to London with specific accessibility needs to plan and make the most of their stay in the capital. But 8 months down the line questions are arising about just how [...]
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About a month ago I visited the lovely new Radisson Edwardian Guildford hotel on the day before it opened. Last week I also met the CEO of Tune Hotels, Mr Mark Lankester, who told me about the budget group’s second cheap London hotel which will shortly open in Liverpool Street. Despite the fact that each of these hotels operates in different [...]
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Tune Hotels continues its expansion in London by opening a second offering in Liverpool Street, as was exclusively first revealed on this blog. And the budget hotel chain, already famous for its rock-bottom prices, is celebrating with a spectacular sale – the chance to grab a room for just 2p! When the first hotel opened they [...]
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My review of the Tune Hotel on Westminster Bridge Road really opened my eyes to how a budget hotel chain works. It’s not as simple as it looks, because to create an economically-feasible operation you have to start right back at first principles – this is something Tune Hotels has done well, rethinking and reengineering all aspects [...]
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It’s no surprise that growth-hungry Travelodge was pleased to snap up the Mercure Hotel, with its convenient location close to London’s Gatwick airport. But it may come as more of a surprise to hear that the company has decided to totally transform the successful 4 star hotel. In a move to align the hotel with Travelodge’s [...]
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I remember staying in a budget hostel in Bruges with a sign on the wall as you went upstairs to bed: “When you’re asleep, this looks like the Hilton”. That’s very much true of the Tune Hotel in Westminster Bridge Road. Or perhaps they could have said “When you’re asleep this feels like the Hilton.” [...]
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The London Olympics will certainly boost revenues for the capital’s hotels in 2012. But while the majority of hotels are in the West End, most of the Olympics events will be in the East End – and it’s not an easy commute. East London isn’t traditionally the most attractive area for top-class hotels. But both [...]
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A few weeks ago we were first to break the news that Tune Hotels were planning to open a second London Tune Hotel in the Liverpool Street area in early 2012 after a meeting with Tune Hotels CEO, Mr Mark Lankester. Tune has since announced a further expansion in London with a total of 15 [...]
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We’ve mentioned before on this blog how the Mayor of London is aiming for an increase in the number of London hotel rooms for people with special needs. And we’ve also looked at the best accessible London hotel rooms. So it’s encouraging to see that budget newcomer Tune Hotels – a company with ambitious expansion [...]
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Hotel jobs were traditionally almost always given to hotel professionals. The hospitality business has a well-worn training route, founded on vocational training and hotel school. This has been churning out well-qualified hoteliers for decades. And certainly when it comes to luxury hotels, this career path is still very much in place. In recent times, however, [...]
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London Hotels Insight met the CEO of Tune Hotels, Mr Mark Lankester, a few days ago at the company’s new Westminster hotel. We managed to get hold of some exclusive information on the company’s growth plans. The first of the Malaysia-based company’s London hotels is experiencing almost 100% occupancy so far and getting good early [...]
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Think of top London hotels and I bet you’re thinking of the West End – Mayfair, Chelsea or Westminster. But a new generation of hotels is now springing up in unlikely places like Bethnal Green, Lambeth and Battersea. And while London is not a particularly dangerous city – it seems these new hotels are showing [...]
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Sometimes we only need a pillow to lay our heads – possibly on quite a limited budget. That’s where ‘no frills’ London hotels come in: an area of the market which has experienced significant innovation in recent times. What’s striking is how many new cheap hotel ideas have modelled themselves on airlines – and I’m [...]
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