Fourth Hotel du Vin set to open in April
The fourth and largest Hotel du Vin is on course to open in Birmingham on 2 April following the one-year, £8.5m conversion of a former Victorian eye hospital.
The 66-bedroom, five-storey hotel is in Church Street in the heart of the city's commercial and financial centre.
Its best suite houses an 8ft square bed, his and hers baths, a double shower, plus a private gym and wine selection. Half the rooms have super-sized bathrooms, and all feature satellite TV, CD players, and large work desks with data ports. Room rates will start at £109.
There is a 100-seat bistro, three-private dining rooms holding between 20 to 108 people, an alfresco courtyard, the Bubble and Cellar Bars, a Cigar Room that will hold up to 15, and an adjacent cigar and wine shop.
As an alternative to wine and cigars, the hotel offers a health club with more than 30 exercise machines, sauna, steam room and drench shower, and six rooms offering 30 types of treatments, including shiatsu.
Robin Hutson, chairman and managing director of the Alternative Hotel Company which owns the chain, plans to expand to 10 by 2007. The group opened its first hotel, a 23-bedroom property in Winchester, Hampshire, in 1994 and has since added a 36-bedroom hotel in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and a 40-bedroom property in Bristol.
By Angela Frewin
