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Leonardo Hotels owner Fattal Group has announced the acquisition of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
The seven floor hotel has 201 rooms, including seaside facing balcony bedrooms and luxury
suites, a restaurant and bar and a dedicated meeting and banqueting space, providing in
excess of 1,200 sq m across 13 rooms. This includes the sea-facing Empress Suite, which can accommodate up to 900 delegates.
In recent years the hotel has benefitted from significant investment, including a major
renovation project, completed in 2019, which saw the Victorian façade of the hotel fully restored.
The acquisition of the hotel follows Fattal Group’s recent acquisition of the Dilly
hotel in Piccadilly, London and the 2018 acquisition of the the Midland Hotel in
Manchester.
The Dilly and Grand Hotel acquisitions were undertaken through Fattal’s €400m (£352m) fund, raised in partnership with a number of institutional investors and managed by Guy Vardi and Yaniv Amzaleg.
Jason Carruthers, managing director of Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland, said: “We are delighted to follow up our acquisition of the Dilly by adding another historic and iconic hotel to our growing portfolio of luxury hotels. It is a consistently high performing hotel, situated in a key strategic location with highly dedicated employees, meaning it is an ideal fit to our broader portfolio.
“We look forward to working with the Grand team to build on their successes to date and continue enhancing the great experiences and service they consistently deliver to their guests.”
Leonardo Hotels currently operates 52 hotels across the UK and Ireland and is part of Fattal
Hotels, which owns and operates over 200 hotels in over 100 destinations.
