Central Grill Madera - restaurante madeirense Polónia

Abriu no mês passado um restaurante madeirense em Varsóvia, no nº 101 da Al. Jerozolimskie (perto da estação de comboios Warszawa Centralna, em frente ao Swede Center e ao lado da Subway). Ainda não encontrei o site do Central Grill Madera, mas fica o link para uma crítica bem positiva do mesmo - em polaco.

Polish Hotel Company - Katowice com o 2º hotel parte II

" The second project of the company – out of seventeen planned in the upcoming years in Poland – is going to be settled in Katowice on Wojewódzka Street near the Rialto cinema in the heart of the City. “This is a construction plot situated opposite the Old Railway Station. Our hotel will be built within a mixed-use facility including offices. However, we have only established a cooperation for the hotel part” – Miguel Martins, general manager at PHC, said to katowicethecity.com.

The 4-floor hotel will have 124 guests rooms and 2 meeting rooms. It will be classified into a 3-star economy budget category offering bed & breakfast services with fixed price for final guest including free wireless Internet and breakfast. “The hotel will be operated by Polish Hotel Management Company under a franchise agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group for the Holiday Inn Express brand” – Miguel Martins added.

The construction work is planned to be kicked-off in spring 2013. The PHC’s facility will border upon a 3-storey office building of B-class to be built by private investor. The construction plot is owned by Eurostar Real Estate from Kraków. The firm is also the owner of the Old Railway Station. The mixed-use facility will be erected within the so called design-and-build formula."

Fonte: http://www.katowicethecity.com 

Já agora, esta era a antiga estação:

Que foi substituída por esta, que manteve o estilo de betão à vista:

Polish Hotel Company - Katowice com o 2º hotel

" Hotel developer Polish Hotel Company is now finishing preparatory work and will launch construction on a new hospitality project in Katowice, in Silesia, in April next year, said Miguel Martins, general manager of the firm. The scheme will be the second of a total of 17 new facilities that the Polish Hotel Company plans to deliver in Poland in the next seven to eight years in partnership with the international hospitality market giant InterContinental Hotels Group.

The first of those facilities, the Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel in the Polish capital, recently held its grand opening. More openings in Warsaw, as well as in the other large Polish cities, are set to take place in the upcoming years.

The development process will be divided into two phases, the first of which will involve the construction of new hotels in the largest Polish cities including Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań and Wrocław, Mr Martins said. In the second phase, the company plans to expand to some of the other major regional Polish cities including Szczecin, Bydgoszcz and Lublin. In the next two to three years, approximately eight new hotels will be opened, Mr Martins added.

While some of the planned hotels, which will mostly be targeted at business travelers, may be stand-alone buildings, the majority will probably be developed within larger office investments, a niche that has a future in the Polish market, Mr Martins said.

The already delivered Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel, for one, is located within the Poleczki Business Park office complex in southern Warsaw and is the result of the Polish Hotel Company’s cooperation with the park’s co-investor UBM. For the investors and developers of major office complexes, Mr Martins noted, having a hotel partner means diversification and less investment risk. A 5,000-sqm hotel facility which, at least in the initial phase, acts as if it were an office tenant, also helps in the pre-leasing process.

According to Mr Martins, the situation in the hospitality market in Poland has not changed much over the last few years, with the country continuing to see strong domestic demand for high-quality hotel space and services. Asked whether the months after the Euro 2012 soccer championships, which Poland co-hosted earlier this year, saw a drop in hotel visits, Mr Martins pointed out that contrary to common belief it is actually domestic, rather than international clients, that drive the market.

For instance, at the Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel, which has been in operation for more than three months now, Polish clients have so far accounted for around 70 percent of all visits, he said. What has been changing is the fact that clients are now expecting a higher standard and that, at the same time, they are becoming more cost-conscious. More CEOs are staying at three-star hotels, which would have been hard to imagine several years ago, Mr Martins said.

All of which makes him optimistic about the prospects for the budget hotel sector in Poland, especially since the country still lacks modern facilities of this kind. “Many of the existing hotels in Poland are old and not branded,” Mr Martins said. Businesspeople will continue to travel around Poland and stay at high-standard and affordable hotels. “We see our activities in Poland as part of the overall process of improving the country’s infrastructure,” Mr Martins added. "

Fonte: http://www.wbj.pl

Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport com reservas a partir 17 Setembro

Fruto do contracto entre a Polish Hotel Company (empresa com capitais portugueses) e o InterContinental Hotels Group, vai abrir em Setembro o primeiro desses hóteis. O Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport situa-se a cerca de 3 minutos de automóvel do aeroporto Fryderyk Chopin e terá 124 quartos. Como se pode ver aqui, já é possível fazer reservas para datas a partir de 17 de Setembro.  

RevPar hóteis Polónia aumentou 9,4%

" It is important to observe that for the 27 countries in the European Union plus Switzerland, the results of the hotel business for 2011 are positive. No country closed the year with a downturn for its reference indicator –the RevPAR1– even if there is a broad range between stagnation in Switzerland (+0.4%) and strong improvement in Poland (+9.4%). While on the one hand Switzerland is already positioned among the highest levels of performance, on the other Poland occasionally benefited from its six‐month presidency of the European Union. The European countries with the strongest hotel activity –United Kingdom, France, Germany or the Benelux– are positioned within a tighter range: between 4% and 6% growth, which better reflects the state of Europe’s marketplace."

Fonte: http://www.europeancitiesmarketing.com

Hóteis na Polónia

De acordo com o World Travel Awards, e tomando em consideração os votos, fica aqui uma lista indicativa de alguns dos melhores hóteis da Polónia.

Categoria Hotel de Negócios:           

Hilton Warsaw Hotel & Convention Centre

Hyatt Regency Warsaw

InterContinental Warsaw

Marriott Warsaw

Radisson Blu Centrum Hotel, Warsaw

Radisson Blu Hotel, Krakow

Sheraton Sopot Hotel

Sofitel Warsaw Victoria

Categoria Melhor Hotel:

Dwór Oliwski

Hotel Copernicus

Hotel Podewils Gdansk

Hotel Wentzl, Krakow

InterContinental Warsaw

Le Meridien Bristol, Warsaw

Mamaison Hotel Le Regina Warsaw

The Westin Warsaw