HOTEL NEWS

IAN SCHRAGER is bringing his Public brand to New York this month. The 367-room hotel opens on Chrystie Street in Lower Manhattan on June 7. It has landscaped gardens, a restaurant headed up by JeanGeorges Vongerichten, a coffee shopcum-grocery, a performance space, and three bars, including a rooftop venue with 360-degree views. HYATT has opened the 211-room Hyatt Regency Amsterdam in the De Plantage district, south-east of Amsterdam Centraal station. It has a 24-hour gym and sauna, a restaurant and bar, and event space. MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL has launched a Moxy property at Frankfurt airport. The hotel has 305 rooms, a self-service food kiosk, meeting space and the brand’s signature “Living Room” lounge. HILTON has opened its largest ever Hampton by Hilton property. The newbuild Hampton by Hilton Berlin City Centre Alexanderplatz has 344 rooms with free wifi and is located on the corner of Otto-BraunStrasse and Mollstrasse. MOTEL ONE has opened the Motel One Berlin Upper West, its ninth property in the German capital. Located near the Kurfurstendamm metro station in west Berlin, it has 582 rooms, a lounge, bar and roof terrace. CITADINES is to make its US debut next year with the renovation and rebranding of the Hotel Central Fifth Avenue New York, located at 15 West 45th Street. Citadines’ parent group, the Ascott Limited, is to invest close to US$50 million in the 125-unit property, which will be renamed the Citadines Fifth Avenue New York. IHG will open the Intercontinental Minneapolis St Paul Airport in summer 2018. The 291-room hotel will be connected to Terminal 1-Lindbergh via a skybridge, and will have two restaurants, a spa and more than 1,800 sqm of meeting space. MANDARIN ORIENTAL has announced plans for a second property in Dubai, located on Sheikh Zayed Road in the 63-floor Wasl Tower development. Scheduled to open in 2020, it will have 257 rooms across floors 16 to 38, and 144 residences on the upper levels. It will join the Mandarin Oriental Jumeirah Beach, which is due to open late next year.