CAMBRIDGE NORTH

Just a stone’s throw away from the bustling city centre, Novotel Cambridge North offers a peaceful escape, allowing guests to immerse themselves into the captivating beauty of the surrounding nature while remaining within easy reach of the city’s renowned attractions. Whether you are staying with us for business or leisure, we strive to create an experience that exceeds your expectations and leaves a lasting impression. Our prime location is situated next door to Cambridge North Train Station, providing easy access to business parks, corporate offices and quick links into Cambridge Centre, London and Airports. Along with public buses from the guided busway and the minibus for the business parks picking up outside our front doors.

We are pleased to offer exclusive corporate rates designed to meet the needs of our customers. Our range of contracts are available from fixed rate to dynamic rates applying to a variety of room types. To discuss and create a tailored corporate rate package that best suits your requirements, please reach out to our dedicated sales team. Additionally, if you are travelling for leisure, we have a loyalty program for guests to become an ACCOR member and receive 10 per cent off their stay. Points are rewarded with each stay, which can be accumulated and used for a stay in one of our suites.

Here at Novotel, we offer a collection of versatile and well-equipped conference spaces available for rent, perfect for hosting corporate events, meetings, or conferences. These rooms can be booked hourly or for half and full days. Our Events team are committed to ensuring that your event is a success, from start to finish, with little hassle for yourselves while at our venue. We also have a 10 per cent donation scheme in place for charities.

Our Conference spaces feature the following amenities:

- Flexible Room Configurations: We can arrange the rooms in various setups (depending on the size required), including theatre-style, boardroom or banquet.

- Audiovisual Equipment: Each room is equipped with a retractable projector and sound systems. We have a team onsite that can help with troubleshooting and any tech queries.

- High-Speed WIFI: Complimentary WIFI is available in all conference rooms, ensuring seamless connection throughout the conference.

- Event Planning Support: Our experienced Events team will work closely with you to understand what you are after, with regards to the set-up, catering and accommodation.

- Refreshments and Catering: We offer different options for your event from teas and coffees to snacks and full lunches.

Well-being is important for our hotel whether this is for guests or staff. We understand the importance of maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle even when working. That’s why we inform guests on their arrival about our leisure area. This includes a state-ofthe-art gym, heated swimming pool, equipped with a jacuzzi, along with a sauna. All these are included free of charge when staying in the hotel but can also be purchased as a separate membership through Club100. Currently, we are looking into the possibility of exclusive rates on the leisure premises as part of well-being activities from local corporates.

Alongside the hotel, we currently have a unit space to rent, which is measured around 200 square meters. It is believed to be perfect for a Hair Salon, Beauty Treatments, Co-Working spacing or more.

The location is great for access from the station and for the new offices due to open next June. For more information, this unit is now available to rent through Cheffins.

Within this last year we have been focusing on getting involved more with our local community through the Environmental, Societal, Governance Strategy. We are keen to collaborate long term and are currently in partnership with Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce and Cambridge United as well as the Cambridge United Community Trust. We have also been working with Brewboard, Cambridge Juice, Saffron Ice Creams and Fitzbillies. Christophe Ughetto, General Manager of Novotel Cambridge North, commented: “Being a new business in the area, we needed to find a platform that would assist us to raise our profile, create networking opportunities and generate business contacts. The range of events available and the close relationship with the Chamber team allowed us to bring credibility to what we are trying to achieve and be fully informed on the longer-term vision for Cambridge and the region. It gives us a voice and the opportunity to act as a sounding board. To date, I strongly believe the Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce has been one of the most active Chambers I have had the pleasure of working with over the years hence our decision to become a Patron.

“Cambridge Regional College has recently partnered with us, as a part of our involvement with local education partners. We’re willing to work with people who are involved in offsetting our carbon footprint, protecting local biodiversity, tree planting programmes, food waste management and singe use plastic.”

The hotel are actively seeking to partner up with people to fight food waste, protect biodiversity, plant trees and focusing on well-being such as yoga classes and nutritionist.

Christophe continued: “Being part of a large international group, our ESG strategy is at the centre of everything we do. And we know that as a local employer and operator, we can make a difference and contribute for the better to our local community and economy. Whilst we are very aware of our reach, we are determined to engage with all local players to enable us deliver on our three key pillars: Acting as a responsible group, Respecting people and the environment and delivering positive hospitality.

“Our staff’s well-being is also very important to us. We firmly believe that to have a thriving and motivated workforce is the foundation of a business’s success. To achieve this, we have implemented activities and incentives that focus on our staff’s well-being. An established environment has been created for open communication, where employees are made to feel welcome in expressing their thoughts, concerns and ideas. Additionally, we understand the importance of work-life balance and actively encourage our employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle in and outside of the workplace.

“Moreover, we have implemented several health and wellness initiatives, such as providing access to gym facilities, being a part of our wellness committee set up by our HR. These initiatives are set up to support our employees’ physical and mental well-being, allowing them to thrive both inside and outside of work. Part of our wellness committee has set up a running club for the staff, meaning we have some quite enthusiastic runners on a Wednesday evening. We have had in-house guests wanting to get involved, which we are now looking into.

“In the last year, we have started to do more within celebration of our staff’s birthdays. Each staff member receives a card from everyone in the hotel, personally signed along with a voucher to use within our restaurant. All staff participate in upselling challenges with the targets being raised each month. We have now decided that we want to reward further and are looking into starting a larger reward scheme. Points will be awarded for each winner of the monthly challenge, these points can then be clubbed together and used for something of their choice. These can be used for getting an electric bike and participate in the bike to work scheme. The chance to volunteer somewhere for a given amount of time that equates to the number of points they have or plant a tree somewhere and sponsor it.”

To find out more about the hotel, or to book a stay or meeting room, please visit https://all.accor.com/ hotel/B2Z3/index.en.shtml or give the team a call on 01223 867170