Premier Inn bookings ‘should go live in the next month or so’

Premier Inn bookings ‘should go live in the next month or so’

Work is continuing on the 91-room hotel at Charing Cross, which will occupy the site alongside a new Co-op supermarket and various other businesses.

‘The hotel is scheduled to open towards the end of May, probably by the late May bank holiday [28 May],’ said a Premier Inn spokeswoman.

‘The date when the bookings website will go live is yet to be confirmed, but it should go live in the next month or so. There will be 91 rooms, including a good proportion of family rooms, and there will also be some inter-connecting rooms for large families.’

Plans for the multi-million-pound project, which has involved a major redevelopment of the site, were approved in December 2014.

Buildings at 4, 5 and 6 Pitt Street were gifted to the National Trust for Jersey by the Co-op and are currently being restored by the Trust at a cost of £1.4m to provide two shops and three residential flats above them.

Meanwhile, No 8 Dumaresq Street has been retained by the Co-op and is going to be used as an in-house bakery for its new store.

Under the plans the Co-op is also working to turn the street into a ‘river of light’ featuring pulsing floor lights and carvings.

And husband and wife team Drew and Ella Locke have agreed to lease part of the former Foot Building in Pitt Street from the Trust to open a café to include alfresco seating for about 20 people.

As part of the refurbishment, the iconic HMV logo – known as His Master’s Voice and showing the familiar dog Nipper – will be reinstated on the side of the Foot Building, which in the early 1900s used to be a music store run by gramophone dealer Francis Foot.

Charls Alluto, chief executive of the National Trust for Jersey, said: ‘The HMV logo is going to be restored by two local traditional sign writers, Steph Newington and John Bates.

‘The restoration works are being generously funded by the Channel Islands Co-operative Society and it is hoped the work will be completed by mid-March.’

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