UK – Spanish hotel and resort operator Sol Melia is set to build a ME ‘experienced-based’ hotel in London in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
As the sixth personality hotel to the ME Hotels brand, ME London will be built on the former site of the City Bank building in Holborn and consist of 7,857sqm of events space in its own convention centre, two restaurants, a bar and 173 bedrooms.
British architect Sir Norman Foster is on board for the project, which will be the second Sol Melia hotel in London joining the Melia White House located next to Regent’s Park.
The ME Hotels brand currently includes two hotels in Spain, ME Madrid and ME Barcelona; two in Mexico, ME Cancun and ME Cabo; and the recent addition of ME Vienna, occupying 22 floors of the tallest building in the Austrian capital, which opened in May 2010.
“With ME Vienna’s opening, we are excited about the rapid expansion of the ME Hotels brand,” says Vice-Chairman and CEO of Sol Melia Hotels and Resorts, Gabriel Escarrer Jaume.
ME London will have ‘Biosphere Hotel’ certification, a social and environmental hallmark already granted to the ME Madrid, ME Cancun and ME Barcelona.
