Jurys Inn

Jurys Inn was a hotel group founded and headquartered in Ireland with operations across Ireland, the UK and the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1993 and grew to operate 31 hotels in the Great Britain, six in Ireland and one in the Czech Republic, with some 7,500 rooms between them, served by 4,000 employees.

Jurys Inn became a member of the Leonardo Hotels Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fattal Hotels, which operates more than 160 hotels in 16 countries. Fattal ran the operating platform for all the Jurys Inn hotels, as well as having the leaseholds for 15 of these. In 2022, it was announced that all Jurys Inn hotels in the UK and Ireland were to be rebranded as Leonardo hotels. Jurys Inn was also part-owned by the Swedish company Pandox AB, a European hotel property investor with 122 hotels in 11 countries, including the freehold of 20 Jurys Inn hotels.

History

The heritage of the Jurys Group can be traced back to at least 1839, when William Jury opened his hotel in Dublin at College Green catering to the expanding commercial sector. The hotel operated until the 1970s when it was demolished and replaced with offices.

The first Doyle Hotel, The Montrose, was built in Stillorgan, Dublin, in 1964 by PV Doyle. 1993 saw the introduction of the Jurys Inns brand with the opening of the Galway and Christchurch (Dublin) Inns in April and May, respectively.

The chain opened its first hotel in Northern Ireland, in Belfast, in April 1997. It expanded into Great Britain with a hotel in London in May 1998. The Jurys Hotel Group acquired the Doyle portfolio of Dublin, London, and Washington, DC, in 1999, and the newly enlarged organisation became known as Jurys Doyle Hotel Group Ltd. Further expansion came in 2001 with the acquisition of two properties owned by Chamberlain Hotels Limited.

The group was then acquired by Quinlan Private in a €1.165 billion takeover in 2008, while the Oman Investment Fund invested €200 million in a 50% stake. In August 2009, the group opened its first hotel on the European mainland—in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. In 2014, three of the company's London hotels (Islington, Chelsea, and Heathrow Airport) were brought under the Hilton Worldwide chain through a franchise agreement and rebranded accordingly—the former two becoming DoubleTree by Hilton hotels and the latter a Hilton Garden Inn.Jurys Inn Islington transformed into a Doubletree by HiltonJurys Inn rebranded as Hilton Garden Inn

Throughout 2015, Jurys Inn added 9 hotels that previously operated under the Thistle Hotels and The Hotel Collection brands: Jurys Inn Cheltenham, Jurys Inn Cardiff, Jurys Inn East Midlands Airport, Jurys Inn Oxford, Jurys Inn Middlesbrough, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Jurys Inn Aberdeen Airport, and Jurys Inn Inverness. Swedish hotel company Pandox and Israeli group Fattal acquired Fattal Hotels from US private equity firm Lone Star in December 2017 for £800 million (€908 million). This portfolio of 37 hotels includes the entire Jurys Inn portfolio of 36 hotels, along with one hotel at London's Heathrow airport, currently trading as a Hilton Garden Inn.https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/lhrepgi-hilton-garden-inn-london-heathrow-airport/ Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Airport

In April 2022, the Fattal Hotel Group announced that the Jurys Inn branding would be retired. The group already operates 145 Leonardo-branded hotels worldwide.

Locations Under the Jurys Inn hotel brand, the company operated 38 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Czech Republic.

Location Hotels Operating Since Aberdeen, Scotland Jurys Inn Aberdeen September 2009 Jurys Inn Aberdeen Airport October 2015 Belfast, Northern Ireland Jurys Inn Belfast April 1997 Birmingham, England Jurys Inn Birmingham March 2001 Bradford, England Jurys Inn Bradford July 2011 Brighton, England Jurys Inn Brighton December 2007 Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront December 2015 Cardiff, Wales Jurys Inn Cardiff October 2015 Cheltenham, England Jurys Inn Cheltenham October 2015 Cork, Ireland Jurys Inn Cork August 1994 Derby, England Jurys Inn Derby June 2009 Dublin, Ireland Jurys Inn Dublin Christchurch May 1993 Jurys Inn Dublin Parnell Street August 2004 Edinburgh, Scotland Jurys Inn Edinburgh July 1998 Exeter, England Jurys Inn Exeter 2009 Galway, Ireland Jurys Inn Galway April 1993 Glasgow, Scotland Jurys Inn Glasgow August 2003 Greater London, England Jurys Inn London Croydon March 2002 Leicestershire, England Jurys Inn East Midlands, East Midlands Airport, Leices October 2015 Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Hinckley October 2015 Inverness, Scotland Jurys Inn Inverness October 2015 Leeds, England Jurys Inn Leeds February 2004 Liverpool, England Jurys Inn Liverpool April 2008 Manchester, England Jurys Inn Manchester April 1999 Middlesbrough, England Jurys Inn Middlesbrough October 2015 Milton Keynes, England Jurys Inn Milton Keynes August 2006 Newcastle/Gateshead, England Jurys Inn Newcastle February 2003 Jurys Inn Newcastle Quayside August 2011 Nottingham, England Jurys Inn Nottingham September 2005 Oxford, England Jurys Inn Oxford October 2015 Plymouth, England Jurys Inn Plymouth June 2007 Prague, Czech Republic Jurys Inn Prague August 2009 Sheffield, England Jurys Inn Sheffield January 2009 Southampton, England Jurys Inn Southampton May 2005 Swindon, England Jurys Inn Swindon June 2009 Watford, England Jurys Inn Watford March 2009

Awards The chain received the following accolades: Business Travel Awards: Best Small Hotel Group 2017, 2018 British Travel Awards: Best International Mid-Scale Hotel brand 2015, 2016 Business Travel Awards: Best Hotel Brand 2010, 2012, 2015 Irish Travel Industry Awards: Best Irish Hotel Chain 2012, 2013 and 2014

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