18 September 2009
InterContinental London Park Lane: A Condé Nast Traveller UK Business Hotel of the Year 2009
InterContinental London Park Lane has been recognised by the elite consumer title Condé Nast Traveller as the top internationally branded business hotel in the UK.
The hotel, which underwent a stunning £76 million transformation in 2006, was placed in fourth overall position by the Condé Nast Traveller's Readers' Travel Awards as their favourite venue for doing business in the UK.
Offering 60 elegant designer suites, including four signature suites, a highly-reputed chic urban spa, the innovative interactive Cookbook Cafe and award-winning restaurant Theo Randall at The InterContinental (voted as the Italian Restaurant of the Year in the London Restaurant Awards), InterContinental London Park Lane has climbed up the ranks from 2008's seventh position, where it scored highest for its food and restaurants with an almost perfect score of 97.98.
General Manager Alvaro Rey comments: "It really means something to us to be regarded as a top five hotel in a Condé Nast Traveller award and I want to thank all the readers who voted for us, however, we have set our sights on doing even better next year. We occupy one of the City's most prestigious addresses, Number One Park Lane, and we are the global flagship for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, part of the world's largest hotel group, IHG. We are setting a precedent across London for hotels by building on excellent quality and service to deliver authentic and enriching London experiences to our guests".
In other parts of the world InterContinental Paris Le Grand in France, InterContinental Aphrodite Hills Resort in Cyprus, InterContinental Sao Paulo in Brazil and Willard InterContinental Washington DC in the US received top honours in various business, leisure and spa award categories.
For more information on the InterContinental London Park Lane please visit http://www.london.intercontinental.com/ or call + 44 (0) 20 7409 3131
For further press information/images contact:
Katie O'Brien at Neville McCarthy Associates
Tel: +44 (0)20 7940 2900.
Email: [email protected]
Media contacts:
Esther Williamson
InterContinental London Park Lane
Tel: +44 207 318 8775
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Charles Yap
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
Tel: +44 7808 098 698
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Notes to Editors:
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 4,300 hotels and almost 630,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites®, and also manages the world’s largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards with 44 million members worldwide.
IHG has nearly 1,600 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 140,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group’s holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.
IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media