UK: Hostel model a&o has bought the previous DoubleTree by Hilton, Docklands Riverside, its first location in London.
The Seventeenth-century constructing is positioned immediately reverse Canary Wharf on the banks of the Thames in Southwark.
From November this yr, the property will grow to be a&o London Docklands Riverside and can be operated as a lodge.
A deliberate funding of £21 million will help a gradual renovation throughout its 500 rooms and a pair of,100 beds. The lodge will stay open through the course of.
The constructing additionally has its personal pier, and a&o will present free entry for visitors to an electrical river cab service to and from Canary Wharf.
a&o Hostels founder and CEO, Oliver Winter stated: “London is just a metropolis you need to expertise. It represents a deep historical past, a fierce vitality and an unimaginable internationalism hardly ever discovered elsewhere. The opening of our first location here’s a actual assertion for a&o, as a number one vacation spot for travellers, households, college teams and teams of mates. It was on the high of our record as we glance to supply worth pushed lodging to youth travellers, teams, households and solo visitors in an in any other case costly metropolis.
“This acquisition is the results of an intensive and purposeful choice course of. It indicators {that a}&o is current on the highest degree – in the most effective cities in Europe, with robust companions and a transparent concentrate on sustainable development,” he added.
a&o London Docklands Riverside joins two different UK properties in Edinburgh and Brighton. It brings the full European portfolio to 44 properties in 30 cities.
Highlights:
• a&o Hostels has acquired its first London website – the previous DoubleTree by Hilton Docklands Riverside.
• The property will reopen in November as a&o London Docklands Riverside, operated as a lodge.
• It can characteristic 500 rooms and a pair of,100 beds, with £21 million invested in phased renovations.
• Friends can have free entry to an electrical river cab service from the lodge’s non-public pier to Canary Wharf.
• The location joins current UK places in Edinburgh and Brighton.
