PETALING JAYA (Dec 20, 2013): Tune Hotels has launched Tune Hotel Davao in the Philippines and Tune Hotel Bekasi in Indonesia.
The 155-room Tune Hotel Davao, located at J.P. Laurel Avenue in Davao City, the Philippines, welcomed its first guests on Tuesday while Tune Hotel Bekasi, with 157 rooms and located at Blu Plaza, Jln Chairil Anwar 27-36 in Bekasi Timur, Indonesia, opened for business yesterday.
Tune Hotels now has seven hotels in operation in the Philippines and six in Indonesia.
"2013 has been a great year for us. To recap, including the newly-opened Tune Hotel Davao and Tune Hotel Bekasi, we have launched three new hotels each in the Philippines and Indonesia this year alone. By early 2014, three more are coming up in Indonesia and another in the Philippines, and these underscore our plans for the two countries" Tune Hotels group CEO Mark Lankester said in a statement.
Tune Hotels has 11 hotels in operation in Malaysia, four in Thailand, five in the UK and one each in Australia, India and Japan.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Historic Castle Street building to be turned into “five-star” budget hotel
The Queen Building on Castle Street
Developers have filed papers with the council looking for permission for a 99-room hotel on Castle Street, to be operated by a major chain that runs complexes across Asia and India.
The sprawling hotel will spread across numbers 3 to 19 Castle Street, known as the Queen Building, with a new ground floor entrance opening out onto the landmark street, which is bookended by the Town Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Law Courts.
Developer Hotel Land Development, who is working on the project with the building’s owner Bruntwood, will keep the exterior of the listed building largely unchanged, but will make alterations inside to fit the boutique hotel style they want to achieve.
The scheme represents another development in the burgeoning hotel scene in the city’s business district.
Hotels have either been opened or are in the pipeline in Tithebarn Street, Dale Street and North John Street.
The firm set to run the Queen Building hotel, Tune Hotels operates in Malaysia, Thailand, India and Australia, and has other hotels in London and Edinburgh. The Liverpool development will be its first in the UK outside a capital city.
Tune Hotels describe themselves as offering a “five-star sleeping experience at a one-star price.”
Sources close to the development said the project would also give a boost to the Queen Arcade that runs underneath the building, cutting the corner of Castle Street and Dale Street.
The Arcade – which the Queen Building also has an entrance on – contains several independent shops and cafes.
The Queen Building is Grade II listed and was built between 1837 and 1839 for the Royal Bank. According to historians, it is also one of the earliest examples of a building that was also designed to include office space to let to other firms.
But a large part of the building has been empty since solicitors DWF moved out.
A spokesman for Bruntwood said: “It’s a beautiful building and Tune have really bought into preserving the heritage of it.
“We are excited about it and we’ve been looking to bring this part of this building back to life.”
A planning application is expected to go before the council in the New Year.
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