Britannia Hotels is an English hotel group with 53 hotels across the country. This includes the portfolio of Pontins Holiday Park. Britannia operates at the end of the budget market with hotels that vary in price and star ratings.
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Britannia Hotels, founded in 1976 with the purchase of Britannia Country House Hotel in Didsbury, Manchester. Chief Executive, founder, and the largest shareholder remains Alex Langsam. Langsam is an unpopulated taxpayer, registered as a resident in Austria for tax purposes since 1999. His net personal value is valued at £ 90 million in 2013 by The Sunday Times.
Its headquarters are based in the old town hall in Hale, Manchester. A large group of corporate hotels located in and around Manchester.
Soon after his foundation Britannia began to make a number of further acquisitions.
The second purchase in 1981 was a derelict building in downtown Manchester (former Wattage Watt stands on Portland Street, Manchester). After rebuilding the unit was opened in May 1982 as Britannia Hotel Manchester. At the end of 1982, British Rail sold its hotel division - British Transport Hotels. From this sale, in 1983 Britannia bought Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool.
In 1987 Britannia Hotels changed the unused buildings in Manchester which became the shopping center of C & amp; city ​​- this being the Sachas Hotel. Later in the same year, Bosworth Hall, a country house-style hotel in Market Bosworth Leicestershire, was purchased. Bosworth Hall was converted from a hospital/nursing home into a hotel and Britannia took over the construction of a bankrupt builder. In 1988 the company bought and started the development of the International Hotel adjacent to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London. The hotel opened on June 9, 1992. A year later, Britannia took over a 187-room hotel in Stockport. After a period of refinement, Britannia Stockport Hotel opened in 1993. In the summer of the same year, the group also purchased the Europa Hotel located close to Gatwick Airport.
In the next 10 years, the group acquired 16 more hotels in various locations such as Birmingham, Aberdeen and Newcastle. In November 2004, he acquired four hotels from Grand Leisure Group: Grand Hotel in Scarborough, Grand Hotel in Llandudno, Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone and Grand Metropole in Blackpool. In January 2011, the company bought Pontins West West holiday business out of administration in a £ 18.5 million deal that guarded about 1,000 jobs. After the acquisition Britannia had to deal with a series of complaints.
From 2005 to 2015, the Group enjoyed the fastest expansion period that acquired 23 hotels - including the Palace Hotel in Buxton and the Basingstoke Country Hotel obtained from the Hotel Collection and Trecarn Hotel Torquay and the Cavendish Hotel in Eastbourne. In 2017, Britannia Hotels also acquired the Royal Hotel in Hull from the Mercure Hotel Group which expanded the Empire to 53 hotels.
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Events
Philip Saville 1988 The Fruit Machine features main and interior scenes at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, including vertical pan shooting through the flaming tent at night.
In 2008 as part of the Celebration of Capital of Culture, a musical based on the Adelphi Hotel, written and directed by Phil Willmott, Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi, ran on Liverpool Playhouse from 30 June to 2 August.
In early 2014 Michael Palin and Mark Addy filmed in the Grand Scarbrough Hotel for a scene for the BBC drama Remember Me .
Controversy
In the mid-1980s, Alex Langsam, owner of Britannia Hotel Group, acquired â € Å"Fire Station Road Londonâ € Class II * in Manchester. Proposals have been made to be redeveloped into hotels and offices, but the plan has been delayed. In 2006 it was placed on the UK's "risky" historical heritage list. City council has tried to buy the building by force but on 29 November 2011, it was rejected.
In 2005 and 2006, the Grand Hotel in Scarborough and Adelphi was investigated by the BBC about theft and cleanliness.
In 2007 the Britannia hotel in Stockport was listed on TripAdvisor as one of the dirtiest hotels in the UK. While others have been prosecuted, for example Coventry and Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. In November 2015, Liverpool Echo investigated guest complaints about Adelphi. In June 2017, Adelphi was prosecuted for breach of food safety and hygiene regulations. Further issues with Adelphi have been reported since then.
In 2013 the chain was successfully prosecuted for putting guests and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos fibers at the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone.
Awards and nominations
- In 2011 Britannia won the category of 'Group-Friendly Group or Group of Hotels' in the Travel Awards Group.
- In 2013 Pontins was awarded the UKCSI Award for the Most Improved Organization at the UK Customer Satisfaction Award 2013. Together with Butlins and Expedia, Pontins continued this success by increasing their score by more than one point in the UK UK Customer Service Survey.
- By Where? Britannia Hotels got the lowest customer satisfaction score from the UK hotel chain in 2013 and 2014, with a score of 33% in 2014.
References
External links
- Official website
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