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LOUGH ERNE RESORT » The Hotel Alone: Lost at Lough Erne package is offering the ultimate seasonal getaway to fans of the cult 90s Home Alone films. Guests will live like Kevin McAllister for the day, enjoying an in-suite trolley laden with bowls of ice cream, cookies, marshmallows and jellybeans. A cheese pizza will be delivered by room service before settling down in bathrobes to watch Home Alone 1 & 2 in the comfort of one of the resort’s loughview suites.
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BEECH HILL HOTEL
HOLIDAY INN BELFAST
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The Beech Hill Hotel has been acquired by The House Collection following a multimillion-pound investment with support from First Trust Bank.
Holiday Inn Belfast City Centre has been ranked the number one Holiday Inn Hotel in the UK and Ireland and granted the highest possible ranking in IHG’s Elite Status. The hotel is one of only five hotels out of 133 in the IHG group to have achieved the Elite status, being ranked number one within the five.
The Best Loved Awards, now in their 4th year, celebrated a whole host of winners, representing the ‘Best of the Best’ of the company’s UK, Irish and international hotel portfolios. All of the hotels are independently-owned, across the country’s regions, with thirteen specialist categories, which attracted over 7,500 nominations from customers all over the world.
The hotel is now under the ownership of entrepreneurs Sam Harding, Barry Kemp and Adam Kemp who between them run a number of local and international businesses. The House Collection hopes to bring new life to the iconic hotel which was sold by the O’Kane and Donnelly families, the previous owners for more than two decades. The new owners have already created five new jobs at the hotel and have an ambitious growth plan to become the best four-star hotel in Northern Ireland.
The Elite status was achieved through outstanding Guest Satisfaction survey results and Andras House attributes the success to the continued investment into its team, each of whom are trained through the group’s Andras Academy. Vikrant Tyagi, General Manager of Holiday Inn, Belfast said: “We are absolutely delighted to be awarded this most prestigious accolade and would like to thank our excellent team for making this possible.
Nominations for the Best Loved Awards opened in June 2018 and Best Loved customers were invited to nominate hotels where they had stayed and experienced ‘best in class’ stays. The Bushmills Inn were delighted to be crowned the regional winner for all Ireland earning them the coveted title of Best Hotel in Ireland.
