GALLERY | £11m Snowdonia hotel to complete in January
The 106-bedroom spa hotel at Ainscough Group’s Adventure Parc Snowdonia in Dolgarrog is nearing completion and would be the first hotel from Hilton’s Garden Inn brand to open in Wales.
Contractor HH Smith & Sons started construction of the four-storey hotel last July and is entering the final eight weeks of the build programme. The hotel is due to complete in January 2021 and open to guests in March.
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Facilities at the hotel include the Wave Garden Spa, corporate conference and meeting facilities, and a ground floor restaurant called Zephyr’s Restaurant & Bar, which overlooks the surf lagoon, part of the wider adventure park.
The Wave Garden Spa is to feature indoor and outdoor treatment areas, including vitality pools, a yoga studio, hammam and Himalayan salt sauna.
The Hilton Garden Inn, designed by Pozzoni Architects, is part of a wider £16m expansion of Adventure Parc Snowdonia, which included the construction of adventure facility Adrenaline Indoors that opened last summer.
Owner Ainscough Group is looking to double the size of the park’s workforce by expanding its activities and facilities.
The 300-metre surf lagoon close to the hotel opened in 2015
The park opened in 2015, featuring a 300-metre surf lagoon and associated amenities. The five-storey Adrenaline Indoors activity centre was an expansion of an existing facility.
Hospitality has been one of the hardest hit sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic but news of Pfizer’s potential vaccine, which could be rolled out by Christmas, has provided a fillip for the industry.
Andy Ainscough, managing director of Ainscough Group, said: “Pfizer’s announcement is a positive development for the whole world, and there’s no doubt that people across the UK’s hospitality and travel industry will be cheering enthusiastically.
“It is a welcome boost as our team gears up for an early spring launch of our Hilton Garden Inn Snowdonia and Wave Garden Spa.”
After a quiet year, Ainscough is predicting a surge in bookings next year. “We’re beginning to see some real optimism return to our sector and that’s great,” he said. “I have no doubt North Wales tourism can make a robust recovery, and whatever happens next year, it will come back even stronger than before.”
Jim Jones, chief executive of North Wales Tourism, added: “The development of Adventure Parc Snowdonia is one of the many reasons why we have the confidence to go out to the world and brand ourselves as the ’Adventure Capital of Europe’.
“[The hotel] will come at the perfect time to give our £3.6bn tourism economy a real boost as we restart after a miserable 2020.”
