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MARINE & LAWN HOTELS - THE NEW HOTEL COLLECTION AIMING TO CAPITALISE ON GOLF Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts is a new collection of Scottish luxury hotels which includes in its portfolio Rusacks St Andrews in St Andrews, the Marine North Berwick and the Marine Troon, which although reopening this year, will officially join the Marine & Lawn collection in 2022, when its renovations are all fully completed. The hotels will offer handcrafted experiences rooted in service and prime access to Scotland’s most prestigious golf courses. The brand has also partnered with restaurant developer, White Rabbit Projects, who will launch and run all food and beverage outlets at Rusacks and Marine North Berwick. Each hotel will offer distinct destination dining options. White Rabbit Projects is the group behind behind including Kricket, Lina Stores and Island Poké. It will use local suppliers throughout Scotland, and its range of culinary offerings will encompass restaurant, bar and café concepts as well as a standout rooftop bar and restaurant at Rusacks St Andrews that will overlook the world famous Old Course and West Sands Beach. The newly renovated Rusacks St Andrews will open in June 2021 with 123
guest rooms, as well as a range of culinary offerings, including a traditional Scottish pub and the rooftop bar and restaurant The renovated property includes a 42,000 square foot expansion which will house additional guest rooms and the rooftop concept. The Marine North Berwick will open in June 2021with 84 guest rooms, two food and beverage concepts and 6,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event spaces. The hotel will also offer a spa, pool and fitness centre. As part of a comprehensive interior and exterior renovation, the ‘Grand Old Lady’ will be restored to her former glory as a luxury landmark on Scotland’s Golf Coast. The hotel overlooks the 16th hole of the historic West Links course at North Berwick Golf Club and boasts scenic views of the Firth of Forth and Bass Rock. Marine Troon on the Ayrshire Coast will be open throughout 2021, but will officially join the Marine & Lawn Collection in 2022. With 89 guest rooms, the hotel will offer two unique food and beverage concepts, expansive meeting and event spaces and a new fitness and leisure centre with an indoor pool, squash court, sauna and steam facilities..
A new Premier Inn hotel for Hamilton The new Premier Inn at Hamilton, on the site of the former Hamilton Town Hotel, will offer 96 bed rooms and a Beefeater restaurant when it opens later this year . The new Hamilton hotel is one of four new Premier Inn hotels that will open their doors to guests in Scotland this year, adding more than 550 new bedrooms into Premier Inn’s growing network and creating around 150 new year-round jobs. Alongside the Hamilton Premier Inn, the new openings include a new super-sized Premier Inn in Glasgow city centre, a new hotel on Edinburgh’s Princes Street and the most northerly Premier Inn in the UK at Thurso in the Highlands. 4 • HOTELSCOTLAND
CAMERON HOUSE FINED £500,000 Cameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd, owner of the five-star Cameron House Hotel located near Balloch, has been fined £500,000 for fire safety failings which led to the deaths of two guests Richard Dyson and partner Simon Midgley staying at the premises in late 2017. Further, an employee of the company has had an 18-month Supervision Order imposed as well as a Community Payback Order and has also been instructed to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work after admitting Health and Safety failings which started the blaze. Alistair Duncan, head of the Health and Safety Investigation Unit,went on to state, “This incident should serve as a stark reminder to other companies that failure to implement the necessary fire safety measures can have terrible consequences.”
