Morgans Hotel Group will make its first Middle East Venture in Qatar with the opening of the 270-room Mondrian Doha early next year.
The company specialises in lifestyle boutique hotels in select resort markets. The Mondrian Doha will be shaped like a falcon and located next to Lagoona Mall in the West Bay area of Doha and, according to its general manager Ray Mc Shane, will compete with the W Doha as the second boutique lifestyle hotel in the city.
Mc Shane, who has been in place since April 2013 said "Morgans operates very niche, stylised hotels".
"Customers who know Morgans enjoy the unique and engaging experience of our hotels. We like to partner with fashion and music and art in everything we do and our buildings are reflective of this," he explained, adding that, for example, Morgans hotels do not feature signage.
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The hotel will have 270 rooms and suites including a penthouse. Mc Shane reveals: “Of those 270 rooms there will be some of the largest standard rooms in the city.”
He added that, as per most of existing and new development hotels in the market, “F&B will be a big focus”. The hotel will also have a nightclub and extensive banqueting facilties.
Staff on board at the moment include the F&B director, executive chef, director of sales and marketing and HR director. The hotel is looking to take on between 550 and 650 staff.
“It was really very appealing to me to be part of the first footprint for Morgan’s Hotels in the Middle East. The company has been predominantly US-based until quite recently. Now there’s five or six international properties opening this year,” Mc Shane added.
Morgans Hotels specialises in lifestyle boutique style hotels in select resort markets and has four brands including Delano, Hudson, Originals and Mondrian, which the company describes as “bold, brave and offering instant excitement the moment the door swings open”.
As well as the Doha opening, Mondrian hotels has pipeline properties in LA, New York, London, Baha Mar in the Bahamas and Istanbul.
Existing hotels in the US include four properties in New York, three in South Beach, one hotel in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles, plus the St Martin's Lane and Sanderson hotels in London, UK.
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