Dalata Hotel Group has officially opened the Samuel Hotel in Dublin, located on North Wall Quay near Convention Centre Dublin.
Ireland’s largest hotel company now has 4,400 rooms in the capital, with Maldron Merrion Road due to open later this year.
The four-star Samuel Hotel has 204 air-conditioned bedrooms, a Red Bean Roastery coffee shop and The Samuel Bar & Grill.
Dalata has billed the Samuel Hotel as “a new brand concept” for the group, with a “new bespoke high-quality ground floor experience”.
The hotel has an A3 Building Energy Rating, and one-fifth of the materials used in the build were sustainably sourced.
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CEO Dermot Crowley commented: “The opening of The Samuel Hotel reinforces the importance of the Dublin market for Dalata and we are delighted to be adding more hotel rooms to the city with a quality offering in an iconic location.
“Conferences, events, business travel and inbound leisure tourism all form part of the lifeblood of the local economy, and the Samuel will cater for each of these segments as the Dublin market rebounds so strongly following the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions.
“While growth across our UK portfolio remains our focus, Dublin is an important market for us and we will continue to seek out strategic opportunities in the city.”
The hotel was constructed by Ronan Group Real Estate and PJ Hegarty & Sons.
At the company’s AGM today, Dalata chairman Jack Hennessy will tell shareholders that the company has moved firmly into recovery with strong trading post re-opening across all markets.
The chairman’s commentary states: “To date trade in 2022 has surpassed our expectations. RevPAR is expected to be 109% of 2019 levels for the March/April period, and RevPAR in April will exceed 2019 levels in each of our Dublin, Regional Ireland and UK regions.
“We are optimistic for the summer months given increased flight capacities and a strong events calendar but remain cautious about the impact of inflation. A number of hotel rooms in Dublin and Regional Ireland are also currently being utilised for other purposes, including to accommodate refugees, notably those fleeing the war in Ukraine.
“We continue to proactively manage the business in response to the ongoing inflationary pressures. Our decentralised model supported by our central teams, our dynamic pricing strategies and our culture of cost discipline are helping us respond to the cost increases we are seeing, particularly in the areas of labour, energy and food.”
The group expects to increase the number of rooms in operation by at least 20% this year compared to the end of 2021.
According to Hennessy: “This year we have successfully opened four new hotels and secured our first hotel in continental Europe with Hotel Nikko, Düsseldorf.
“The group’s two new hotels in Manchester city centre, which opened in January and February, are performing ahead of our expectations. We opened our first hotel in Bristol last month. The Clayton Hotel Glasgow City and Maldron Hotel Merrion Road in Dublin are expected to open in the coming months.”
