tainboy Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 My work was in advanced discussions with this crowd. The hotels are ok quality, albeit cramped. They are after all a 32ft shipping container. All the grubbing in the room are under the double bed. They can be built (2 storey) in three days for 134 people. They currently have in at the global concentration camp, sorry - energy park in Nigg. Link to comment
ChutneyLove Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 I stayed in an Yo! Hotel at Schipol once. It was compact, but clean and well appreciated. I had 17 hours in Amsterdam after a flight fuck-up - the room cost about 60 Euro which probably saved me a couple of grand at the rate I was spending money at the casino there. Are shipping containers not usually 20ft or 40ft?Edit to add - once stayed in a smaller room than that for 3 nights with Slinky in Slovenia. Fuck me, never again. That bloke's bowel expulsions are the stuff of legend. When you're in a room that isn't much bigger than the toilet, it's like getting the full 5-D experience. Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 After watching some boy in Northern Ireland build a house out of them on Grand Designs, I to had this idea. Unfortunately I don't have millions of pounds of investment behind me to help me fleece oil companies and their staff, to bide in metal boxes. Making my myself further millions in the process. Link to comment
jassb Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Anyone ever stayed in a citizenM hotel? I stayed at the one at schiphol once. Massive bed. Shower and toilet in a cylinder shaped tube in the middle of the room. Good and a bit strange/different. I'm off to Glasgow for a weekend in December and thinking about staying in the one there. Aberdeen should have one of these. http://www.citizenm.com/ Link to comment
Henry Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The first image of a plan to transform an Aberdeen landmark into a 98-bedroom hotel have been revealed. The former Esslemont and Macintosh building on Union Street could be converted into a hotel and restaurant seven years after the popular department store closed. Developers Castlecall also plan to remove the building's granite extension and replace it with a four-storey glass structure. E&M closed its doors after in 2007 134 years, and plans to turn the building into a 97-room hotel and shops were approved in 2008. But the development was not taken forward and part of the building was converted into a Jamie’s Italian restaurant in February 2013. Dustin Macdonald, chairman of Aberdeen's City Centre Community Council, said: "We are glad to see something finally being done with the former E&M building after sitting empty for far too long. "We have still to look at the details of the application but feel that the inclusion of a restaurant on the ground floor will be a good asset to Union Street. "We have no objections in principle to it being a hotel but need to look at the detail of the design and how the logistics would work for the development." A decision on the plans is expected later this year. Link to comment
dave_min Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That actually doesn't look too horrific. Link to comment
Henry Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Looks a lot better than what's there currently. Link to comment
Pudgie Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Just get the fucking thing built eh and we can stop having the pile of shite shops that are there currently. Next stop the Castlegate for a bit of much needed renovation. Link to comment
dave_min Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 If there's one thing we learned from Groningen fans it's that the Castlegate is perfect as it is. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Not a fan, if they made the side the same as the frontal then you have a classy looking building that will stand the test of time, the glass looks cheap. Link to comment
reekie_dock Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The Colwyn Hotel is a nice place for a wedding reception stayed there on many occasion before a check In. Just spent lot oh money doing it up and always a friendly face when you arrive.... Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The Colwyn Hotel is a nice place for a wedding reception stayed there on many occasion before a check In. Just spent lot oh money doing it up and always a friendly face when you arrive....This one? Link to comment
reekie_dock Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 This one? All lies nice place to stay in Dee street....... Once i stayed there and was met by the receptionist who was a 50 yer old bloke who had both bare feet up on desk whilst smoking a super king.... Link to comment
strachanmcgheegoal Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 E&m hotel looks fantastic. Especially when they take down the stupid glass scaffolding! Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 All lies nice place to stay in Dee street....... Once i stayed there and was met by the receptionist who was a 50 yer old bloke who had both bare feet up on desk whilst smoking a super king.... charming as it sounds, think i'll stick with the Hilton. Link to comment
reekie_dock Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 charming as it sounds, think i'll stick with the Hilton. Don't know what your missing...... I turned tap on to brush ma teeth and the tap didnt work! After struggling to find light switch with my phone flash on was met with a rake oh wires poking out a back box on the wall! Link to comment
tup Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I dinna mind roughing it at all, as long as the bed is comfy thats my only proviso. Link to comment
Henry Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Marcliffe rumours have been doing the rounds for a couple of years now, especially since the redevelopment of a property on Bailieswells Road, Bieldside belonging to a certain Mr S Milne... Detailed planning permission is being sought for a major housing development on the site of Aberdeen's iconic Marcliffe Hotel.The five-star hotel - a popular venue for wedding receptions and functions - has been at its North Deeside Road venue since 1993.Housebuilder Stewart Milne wants to demolish the hotel and create 189 properties.The owner, Stewart Spence, is retiring, and sold the site.Meanwhile, the former Victoria Road Primary School in Torry has been earmarked for redevelopment.Barratt has submitted a proposal of application notice with Aberdeen City Council to build more than 50 homes at the site. Link to comment
dunc_afc Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Not a fan, if they made the side the same as the frontal then you have a classy looking building that will stand the test of time, the glass looks cheap.It will fit in well with the rest of the shite getting built on Broad street. Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 The old granite buildings that are the Marcliffe and school shouldn't be allowed to be demolished. Nae sure if they are saying the Marcliffe would be but it certainly shouldn't be allowed under any circumstances. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/name-it/401970/15-aberdeen-pubs-clubs-went-80s-arent-anymore/ That's not quite how I recall the Belmont. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 The Belmont actually looks nice there, must have been right after the refurb before any customers came in. was a top boozer. Cousins and Ici were also class, egg and dart was a good bar as well. I don't recall Sweepers at all, with Willie Miller as co owner I imagine it was a financial disaster. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Travel lodge in Bucksburn. About as shite as it gets. Had a relative coming up and rather than having the inconvenience of her darkening my door planned to put her in the cheap shitty establishment. Came in at over 300 brick for two nights. Na, yer a right like. Would it be cruelty to put her in the Brittania?? Link to comment
dave_min Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Belmont Bar, ahhhhh - what a place on a Saturday night. Up there with The Windmill Bar and Waterfront (Claire's Bar) in terms of tremendous boozers around the City Centre. R.I.P. There's a distinct lack of shitty (but charming) boozers in Aberdeen these days. Wasn't like this when I was young. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 You need to travel to Woodside these days if you want your spit and sawdust type bars. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Came in around the same price. They were punting out rooms for 29 quid at one point and even then you felt hard done by. Britannia would make a cracking Fawlty Towers type hotel these days. Get in a Bazil Fawlty lookalike to run the place, employ a Spanish waiter and have some old hag from nearby to play the role of Cybil. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Came in around the same price. They were punting out rooms for 29 quid at one point and even then you felt hard done by. Did you try the Cloverleaf? surprised the Brittania was so expensive, must have been a lot of oil workers in town. Link to comment
daytripping Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I ended up in the Britannia one night many years back. Few pals, many birds and heaps of cocaine and booze. Strange hotel, grotty (perfect for the occasion) and evening. The Village bar on the side of the place is quite a good place for a beer, has a certain charm about it, had many a good night in there. Link to comment
King Street Loon Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 The village bar was excellent for getting pished.My mates worked behind the bar and was always good for handing over £5 note for a pint and getting £5 back in small change. Couldn't do it all the time as they'd get found out, but was good while it lasted. Link to comment
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