Campbell Gray Hotels is set to roll out a spa brand called Pure Gray, company chairman and founder Gordon Campbell Gray revealed in an exclusive interview with HotelierMiddleEast.com
“I think we’ll put a Pure Gray into all our hotels and we’re going to develop that. We’re actually extending Le Gray Beirut already,” said Campbell Gray.
He said that he was taking over a part of the building originally intended for retail to extend new hotel Le Gray — located in the smart downtown district of Beirut.
“We’re adding an Asian restaurant, an indoor screening room, a swimming pool, extending the spa and putting in ice rooms,” said Campbell Gray.
In addition, Campbell Gray plans to transform some of the 500-piece strong art collection he accrued for Le Gray Beirut into a gallery because of demand from guests to buy the work
“Everybody wants to buy art and I don’t like art for sale in hotels so I’ve decided we’re going to have a gallery/coffee shop in the hotel — it’ll be pieces [costing] from a few hundred to a few thousand and I’m going to collect it.
“So it will be called ‘Gallery Gray’ — we’re really flogging my name here at the moment but everyone seems to love it. It will be a pure art gallery,” he said.
Le Gray Beirut is a member of the Leading Small Hotels of the World.
Campbell Gray Hotels also operates One Aldwych and Dukes in London and Carlisle Bay in Antigua.