travel: Hotel makes vintage job of conversion; PETER TAYLOR travels to Cheltenham to enjoy some Hotel du Vin hospitality.(Features)

From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) | Date: January 5, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: PETER TAYLOR

THE opening of a new Hotel du Vin on Tyneside has hit the headlines in a way its management would least have wanted.

The major fire at the new venue being converted from the former Tyne Tees Shipping Company building on Newcastle's City Road in Ouseburn means a longer wait for those wanting to sample what it has to offer.

But we had the good fortune to spend a night at its sister hotel in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which open...

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