Work is progressing well on the brand new 4-star hotel Holiday Inn located at London Southend Airport.

The £10 million project is sited on land adjacent to the Harp House Roundabout and will provide high quality and convenient facilities for airport passengers and staff, as well as local business users and restaurant diners.

The striking 129-bedroom hotel is the latest addition to the world-famous chain’s portfolio and will be completed in mid-July 2012 – just in time for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In a first for Holiday Inn in the UK, the five-storey hotel will also have a magnificent, fully sound-proofed rooftop bar and restaurant, called the 1935 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar. Guests can enjoy stunning panoramic views of the airport and surrounding area whilst enjoying their drinks or dinner. The 1935 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar will be able to seat around seventy customers, plus an exclusive private dining room for ten and will be open for breakfast, dinner and Sunday lunch.

Head Chef Kieran Moore has 30-years of culinary experience in hotels and restaurants across the globe, including training under Marco Pierre White and working alongside Raymond Blanc. He describes the 1935 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar menu as Classic British with a contemporary twist.

In order to accommodate all types of guests, Holiday Inn Southend will include a variety of spacious twin, double, family, interconnecting and specifically adapted rooms for wheelchair users. All the bedrooms will be furnished to a high standard featuring 37 inch LCD HD Ready TVs, high speed Wi-Fi, trademark Holidreamer beds, pillow menu, spacious bathrooms and ample space to both work and relax. For a small supplement, the hotel will have twenty eight Executive rooms and four luxurious King Superior rooms.

When choosing a venue for weddings, social events or meetings/conference, Holiday Inn Southend Airport will offer a state-of-the-art conference and banqueting facility in the Laker Suite for up to 150 guests, or a choice of smaller meeting rooms entitled Ambassador, Britannia and Carvair (in homage to planes that feature prominently in London Southend Airport’s history).

The Holiday Inn Southend is situated just a few minutes’ walk from the London Southend Airport terminal and railway station. The station sits on the Southend Victoria line to London Liverpool Street and has up to eight services per hour to and from London, offering passengers a seamless link between the airport and the City of London in just 53 minutes, or the Olympic Park at Stratford in just 44. London Southend is the only UK airport with a direct mainline rail connection with the Games at Stratford.

Holiday Inn Southend is owned by Stobart Group, London Southend Airport Managing Director Alistair Welch has said “This hotel is a key part of Stobart’s plans to modernise London Southend Airport, and will hugely improve facilities for passengers and flight crew using the airport whilst also becoming an exciting new resource for local businesses”. Holiday Inn is part of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) family of brands Holiday Inn is part of the world’s best known hotel brand. There are 240 hotels from the Holiday Inn brand family open in the UK with a further 19 due to open in the next few years.

Find out more at www.hisouthend.com

For more information about booking London Southend Airport Holiday Inn please contact Sales Manager Emma Dean on 01702 543 001/ 07738426524 / salesmgr@hisouthend.com

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