‘Room service? I'm ready for my liposuction now'

The first hotel in the world to offer guests cosmetic surgery procedures such as facelifts and Botox injections opened in Canada this week.

The Brookstreet hotel in Ottawa, which took 18 months to build, has 285 bedrooms, including 36 suites. Rates start from Cdn$199 (£89) a night. It also has a restaurant, meeting rooms, a ballroom, a health centre and spa, and an 18-hole golf course.

"We realised there was a need for people to be able to have this surgery and then stay in their rooms for a few days while they're looked after and provided with room-service meals," said the hotel's general manager, Patrice Basille.

Cosmetic surgeon Lloid Van Wyke works at the hotel one day a week. Minor surgery is carried out in his consulting rooms there, while more major surgery will be undertaken at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

"I am very excited about this," he said. "It is a new philosophy, but I think that, as long as I have the right equipment and staff, I can do my job from the moon."

The hotel is owned by Welsh telecommunications entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews, owner of the Celtic Manor hotel in Newport, Gwent.

Matthews, who is worth £610m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2003, invested Cdn$115m (£51.5m) in the hotel. "It's different to have a surgeon at a hotel, but if it makes business sense that's what matters," he said. "Hotels are not simple playthings to me. I do enjoy them, but I like them to be profitable."

Red Carnation's South African hotel, the Twelve Apostles in Cape Town, attracts many guests recovering from plastic surgery to its luxury premises, although it doesn't yet offer surgery on the premises.