Wexford People

€1.5m expansion at Riverside Park Hotel

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THE Riverside Park Hotel and Leisure Club in Enniscorth­y has begun a major expansion with an investment of €1.5 million creating 22 new bedrooms. The project, the fourth expansion of the four star hotel, brings to 100 the number of rooms at the hotel, as well as additional bar facilities.

Owner Colm Neville is managing the expansion that will consist of deluxe and family rooms as well as a couples-only floor and two junior suites overlook Enniscorth­y Town and Castle.

It comes only two years after opening their last expansion of 20 bedrooms and an additional function room, the Seamus Rafter Suite. In the latest developmen­t the Promenade Bar is receiving an extension and complete refurbishm­ent.

The expansion of the Riverside Park Hotel comes off the back of two further significan­t recent investment­s Mr Neville has made in the hospitalit­y industry, having with his brother Anthony, purchased the four-star 110- bedroomed Portlaoise Heritage Hotel, which is currently undergoing a reinvestme­nt transforma­tion itself as well as having just celebrated a very busy first year trading in the popular newly refurbishe­d Crown Bar in Wexford town.

Colm Neville said the new luxurious rooms ‘will be marketed to our valued existing and new customer audiences, be they leisure or business travellers as well as the local community’.

‘The inclusion of extra family rooms is in response to the ever increasing demand from families for rooms that can sleep two adults and up to three and four children in the one room and we are constantly under pressure for more of these rooms,’ said Mr Neville.

The new extension will create eight jobs, bringing to 173 the total number of staff employed at The Riverside Park Hotet. Work is expected to be complete before the start of the 2017 tourist season.

Mr Neville said from local feedback the effect of the last expansion of 20 bedrooms was felt by businesses on the streets of Enniscorth­y from retailers and tourism suppliers.

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