Barcelona hotel gets ready for opening

W BARCELONA, Starwood’s first of the iconic brand in Europe, has set 1 October for its opening date.  The 473-room beach front property is busy recruiting.  W Hotels is a fast expanding innovative luxury lifestyle brand currently with 29 properties in what it calls the most vibrant destinations around the world.  London is already taking bookings for June 2010 at the former Swiss Centre site in Leicester Square and St Petersburg will open September 2010.  A Manchester property is also planned.  W Hotels are different and are claimed to provide the ultimate in insider access to a world of ‘Wow’.  Now ten years old the brand will triple its footprint by 2011. www.whotels.com/barcelona

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