Interstate Hotels & Resorts has some grandiose plans regarding its presence in the UK. The famous hotelier announced 18 new properties to be added soon to its portfolio. The hotels are owned by an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, and Interstate will become managing company for the properties. The hotel company has recently significantly strengthened its presence in the region. Headquartered in Birmingham, UK division of Interstate currently compromises 59 hotels if count both working hotels and ones in the pipeline.
Such attention to this market can be explained by the fact that the UK is a priority market for Interstate, and the hotelier has high hopes about it. The newly added 18 hotels will add 2,443 guestrooms to the portfolio of Interstate. First three hotels will be rebranded already next month. Thirteen out of these eighteen hotels will get signature Spirit & Health Fitness Club.
The new hotels in the Interstate portfolio are the 142-key Holiday Inn Farnborough, the 188-key Holiday Inn hotel in Leicester, the 216-key Holiday Inn Gatwick London Airport, the 139-guestroom Holiday Inn Aylesbury, the 130-key Holiday Inn hotel in Southampton, the 202-key Holiday Inn Reading South, the 112-key Holiday Inn High Wycombe, the 135-key Crowne Plaza hotel in Leeds, the 107-key Holiday Inn London Bexley, the 144-key Holiday Inn Hemel Hempstead, the 158-key Holiday Inn Coventry, the 125-key Holiday Inn Gloucester Cheltenham, the 86-key Holiday Inn Basingstoke, the 101-key Holiday Inn Edinburgh City West, the 124-key Holiday Inn Fareham, the 105-key Holiday Inn Maidstone Sevenoaks, the 129-key Holiday Inn Southampton, and the 100-key Holiday Inn Hull Marina.