New JDW hotel to open this month
The new hotel at the Mile Castle pub in Newcastle upon Tyne will welcome customers through the door at 8am on Tuesday 26 November, taking the number of hotels in JDW’s portfolio to 56.
Boasting 26 bedrooms, the Grade II listed property adjoins the existing pub in Westgate Road and Grainger Street.
A new beer garden in the venue’s former cark park to the side of the building, totalling more than 275m2, will also be opened on 26 November.
Great asset
Wetherspoon spokesman Eddie Gershon told The Morning Advertiser (MA): “The investment in the new hotel highlights Wetherspoon’s commitment to the pub, its staff, customers and Newcastle itself. We are confident that the new hotel will be a great asset to the city.”
Occupying four floors, the hotel has two rooms designed specifically for guests needing accessible facilities.
Each of the rooms features an en suite bathroom, tea- and coffee-making facilities, hair dryer, flat-screen television with Freeview TV and free Wi-Fi, as well as digital air-conditioning and temperature control.
The hotel and beer garden’s opening follows the pub’s reopening in September this year, after undergoing redevelopment and refurbishment work.
JDW said it had invested more than £5m in total into the overall cost of redeveloping and refurbishing the pub, hotel and beer garden.
New attraction
In addition, 70 new jobs have been created the Mile Castle, taking the pub and hotel’s staff number to 200.
Pub manager Kris Lee said: “We are looking forward to welcoming people to the hotel and believe that it will be a great asset to the pub, as well as to the city.
“The new beer garden will also be a great new attraction for the pub – and I am sure that it will be welcomed by customers.”
Earlier this week, the pub behemoth revealed its like-for-like sales had increased 5.9% during the 14 weeks to Sunday 3 November this year.
