New hotel planned for Heathrow
UK: Eight-floor budget facility should be ready late next year
Travellers who want or need to stay overnight at Heathrow will have another hotel to choose from next year. The Irish hotel operator Jurys Doyle has signed a deal with BAA and is to invest more than £20 million in a 340-room hotel at the airport. The budget Jurys Inn Heathrow is scheduled to open late next year near Hatton Cross underground station; building work sill start within months. According to The Times the hotel will have eight floors, a restaurant, a bar, and meeting rooms. The newspaper reports that the hotel group was successful in signing the deal with BAA after a tendering process involving other groups including the French company Accor and the Scandinavian outfit SAS.
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