Square Meal Venues & Events

My colleague and I attended the SM Venues & Events Exhibition held at Old Billingsgate, EC3 on 19th and 20th September.  We found it was a great venue to network with so many hotel and conference providers, such as Four Pillars Hotels with fabulous venues from a Victorian Mansion to contemporary lakeside resort to a property in a prime city location as well as The Abhotels Collection with many great locations such as The Spa at Sopwell House, St Albans, the perfect place to take your corporate clients for a business weekend.  Have your  meetings and then relax in the spa, perhaps a dip in the swimming pool, retreat to the sauna & steam room before enjoying an informal dinner in the Brasserie.

Or if you work in the City how about The Arch London - London's finest contemporary boutique hotel.   Offering  Salon de Champagne, Cocktail Bar, Hunter 486 Brasserie plus 82 luxury bedrooms and suites.  Perhaps your clients would enjoy a Martini served straight or on the rocks in the Martini Library.   Esssentially whatever your requirements for entertaining guests, or colleagues, or sales and marketing events or promotional or launch events, even personal family events, it was all available at The Square Meal Venues & Events Exhibition!  

Corporate Hospitality at Christmas

Since our last blog about Santa Grotto's in stores in August Newgate thought we probably may as well start talking about Christmas now. Particularly with many businesses looking to find different and unusual ways to entertain clients and potential clients at Christmas as well as their colleagues to thank them for their efforts during the year.

Companies in the US tend to be more generous to clients sending out personal gifts, such as items from Tiffanys, but we suspect in the UK this year even the Bankers will be looking to find ways to economise on Christmas events for their clients, although not wishing to cancel but perhaps look at ways to get additional value and come up with different themes.

Why not consider a client visit to a Christmas market in perhaps Germany or Estonia, travel by Eurostar or plane, a couple of hours in the market, followed by Christmas luncheon and return.  Or perhaps champagne reception and pastries at the fabulous new hotel at St Pancras, followed by Eurostar to Paris, perhaps fit in an hour or so of site seeing followed by lunch and return to the UK.   For those extra special clients perhaps include an overnight stay at a 4* hotel ( with partners) and host your Christmas corporate event in Paris, Barcelona or Rome, this will then allow you to invite those important overseas clients and business contacts.

Whatever ideas you may be thinking about for a corporate Christmas event why not drop www.newgatetravel.co.uk a quick email with your initial ideas and leave it to them.      

The Grand Hotel for Conference and Business Meetings

The Grand Hotel which Newgate Travel recently visited is the perfect spot for your sales conferences, business meetings.  The hotel is near to the Brighton Centre for sales teams attending conferences or if your company is hosting its own series of meetings/conferences, where better than at The Grand Hotel in Brighton.

With fabulous seaviews - from its restaurant and bar and lounge areas - it is the perfect setting to entertain clients and business colleagues with drinks and cocktail receptions.  For larger numbers you can book the Empress Suite rooms.  This hotel has something for everyone, whether you are coming here for business or conference meetings, leisure trips, weddings or celebrations, the Grand has it all.  

For all your corporate business conference or event requirements just contact www.newgatetravel.co.uk who will be happy to arrange everything for you.

Cedar Court Grand Hotel in York for senior Executives

If you or your business colleagues are planning any meetings in York or are thinking it might be nice to whisk the other half away for a romantic weekend then look no further than The Cedar Court Grand Hotel in York.  It truly is a fabulous 5 star hotel and the only 5 star hotel in Yorkshire.  It has a range of facilities such as the spa and gym in the lower ground floors, where a relaxing afternoon can be spent after trying out some beauty treatments before relaxing in the sauna.  For business the hotel is perfectly set up with rooms and suites geared for executives to host business meetings in formal settings.  The bar and lounge areas are perfect for informal meetings over coffee or drinks.   You can also host receptions and cocktail evenings for clients and business associates on the terrace or in the whiskey lounge which has over 200 different blends of whiskey.  But that is not all this hotel has to offer, if you wish to really impress your business colleagues or entertain your clients this is the hotel to do so in.  The meeting rooms all offer state of the art technology.  All of the rooms are named after former board members of the Nothern Eastern Railway Board as this Grade II listed building was formerly British Rail North Eastern Region's headquarters.   This great building, built in 1906, has a host of history steeped inside with wonderful staircases and entrance hall, the doors of many of the meeting rooms still show the numbers of the original offices.   The 2 AA rosette awarded grill room alongside the HQ restaurant is perfect for business lunches, afternoon teas or dinners.

And if you can tear yourself away from the hotel do go and explore the surrounding area of the hotel.  You are just five minutes from York Station, which itself is worth walking around admiring the interior building.  Or walk along the roman walls that overlook the hotel.  Just a few yards from the hotel you will find many interesting sites to see, perhaps take a boat trip or wander around the wonderful gardens or visit York Minister or the national railway museum.   For business or leisure York is definitely a place to visit.  Contact www.newgatetravel.co.uk and they will organise your business or leisure trip.