New Chelsea Hotel Offers Premium Meeting Space And Accommodation For Business Travellers


Global leisure chain and Portugal’s largest international tourism and leisure group Pestana Hotels and Resorts, will launch its first hotel in the UK in 2010. The four-star Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel and Spa opens 1st March, and will provide visitors with world class business efficiency, combined with the hotel’s enviable setting alongside the Battersea Park and the River Thames.

The 216 room hotel provides 1,500 square metres of banqueting and meeting space over two levels.

Four modern, well appointed meeting rooms are located on the first floor offering plenty of natural light. These can be used individually with an adjoining pre-function area, or extended into a larger meeting space. Accommodating between 18-160 delegates, the rooms are available in a cinema, boardroom, banquet or cocktail style format.

On the lower ground floor level, two inter-leading banquet rooms offer facilities for up to 600 cocktail style or 400 seated at round tables. Alongside the hotel, is a secure, public parking garage for up to 800 vehicles, making access convenient and easy.

The hotel offers guests and event organisers a distinctive opportunity to invigorate and re-energise corporate meetings, with easy access to London’s picturesque Battersea Park. Team building, picnics, outdoor exercise and scenic walks through the park’s beautiful gardens are some of the activities which can provide a natural and healthy stimulant to events and conferences.

For the discerning business traveller, Pestana Hotels and Resorts has designed its first London hotel to incorporate the brand’s signature luxury leisure style. The 30+m rooms are substantially larger than the average room in London to ensure maximum comfort.

The hotel will offer top of the range accommodation, catering facilities, flat screen TVs, iPod docking stations and Wi-Fi capability. The spacious marble finished bathrooms feature separate bath and shower, as well as splash proof TV’s in the suite bathrooms.

For privacy and comfort Club Floor accommodation is available on the 11th and 12th floors with impressive views of the London skyline and private lounge access. The Club Floor Lounge services include American breakfast, with tea, coffee and refreshments, evening snacks and full bar service available throughout the day.

Leisure facilities will include state of the art spa and beauty treatments, executive gymnasium, large indoor heated swimming pool, fine dining restaurants, and a bar. Adding the final leisure signature touch, the hotel will provide unique fitness cycles in selected rooms to allow guests to enjoy private workout sessions in the comfort of their own space.

Occupying the prestigious position as the flagship of the Chelsea Bridge development, the hotel offers excellent transport links. Airport shuttle services are available and Victoria and Sloane Square tube stations are within easy walking distance, or accessible by bus immediately outside the hotel.

For conference and meeting bookings at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel and Spa please contact Abhimanyu Ranawat on abhimanyu.ranawat@pestana.com. Alternatively please visit www.pestana.com for further information.

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About Pestana Hotels and Resorts: Pestana Hotels and Resorts is a highly acclaimed business, proudly boasting a heritage of 35 years as international hoteliers. Providing excellence within the ‘leisure hotel experience’, the company will launch its well established global brand and inimitable style in London, with the opening of the new Pestana Chelsea Bridge hotel in March 2010.

The company owns an impressive portfolio of 82 luxury four and five star hotels worldwide. Due to its innovative design and vision, the Pestana Group was also granted rights to manage 40 Pousadas by the Portuguese government. Today these carefully converted historical buildings provide superior accommodation for guests looking for a truly memorable holiday experience.

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