Jurys Inn

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Jurys Inn Group Limited
Company type Private
Industry Hotel
Founded1881 (1881)
FounderWilliam Jury
Defunct2023
FateRebranded as Leonardo Hotels
Headquarters,
Number of locations
38
Area served
Ireland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Key people
Jason Carruthers (Managing Director)
Number of employees
4,000
Website jurysinns.com

Jurys Inn was a hotel group founded and headquartered in Ireland with operations across Ireland, the UK and the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1993 and grew to operate 31 hotels in the Great Britain, six in Ireland and one in the Czech Republic, with some 7,500 rooms between them, served by 4,000 employees.

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Jurys Inn became a member of the Leonardo Hotels Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fattal Hotels, which operates more than 160 hotels in 16 countries. Fattal ran the operating platform for all the Jurys Inn hotels, as well as having the leaseholds for 15 of these. In 2022, it was announced that all Jurys Inn hotels in the UK and Ireland were to be rebranded as Leonardo hotels. [1]

Jurys Inn was also part-owned by the Swedish company Pandox AB, a European hotel property investor with 122 hotels in 11 countries, including the freehold of 20 Jurys Inn hotels.

History

The heritage of the Jurys Group can be traced back to 1881, when William Jury opened his first boarding house in Dublin. The first Doyle Hotel, The Montrose, was built in Stillorgan, Dublin, in 1964 by PV Doyle.

1993 saw the introduction of the Jurys Inns brand with the opening of the Galway and Christchurch (Dublin) Inns in April and May, respectively.

The chain opened its first hotel in Northern Ireland, in Belfast, in April 1997. It expanded into Great Britain with a hotel in London in May 1998.

The Jurys Hotel Group acquired the Doyle portfolio of Dublin, London, and Washington, DC0, in 1999, and the newly enlarged organisation became known as Jurys Doyle Hotel Group Ltd. [2]

Further expansion came in 2001 with the acquisition of two properties owned by Chamberlain Hotels Limited.

The group was then acquired by Quinlan Private in a €1.165 billion takeover in 2008, while the Oman Investment Fund invested €200 million in a 50% stake. [3]

In August 2009, the group opened its first hotel on the European mainland—in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. [4] In 2014, three of the company's London hotels (Islington, Chelsea, and Heathrow Airport) were brought under the Hilton Worldwide chain through a franchise agreement and rebranded accordingly—the former two becoming DoubleTree by Hilton hotels and the latter a Hilton Garden Inn. [5] [6]

Throughout 2015, Jurys Inn added 9 hotels that previously operated under the Thistle Hotels and The Hotel Collection brands: [7] [8] Jurys Inn Cheltenham, Jurys Inn Cardiff, Jurys Inn East Midlands Airport, Jurys Inn Oxford, Jurys Inn Middlesbrough, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Jurys Inn Aberdeen Airport, and Jurys Inn Inverness.

Swedish hotel company Pandox and Israeli group Fattal acquired Fattal Hotels from US private equity firm Lone Star in December 2017 for £800 million (€908 million). This portfolio of 37 hotels includes the entire Jurys Inn portfolio of 36 hotels, along with one hotel at London's Heathrow airport, currently trading as a Hilton Garden Inn. [9] [10] [11]

In April 2022, the Fattal Hotel Group announced that the Jurys Inn branding would be retired. The group already operates 145 Leonardo-branded hotels worldwide. [12]

Locations

Under the Jurys Inn hotel brand, the company operated 38 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Czech Republic.

LocationHotelsOperating Since
Aberdeen, Scotland Jurys Inn AberdeenSeptember 2009
Jurys Inn Aberdeen Airport October 2015
Belfast, Northern Ireland Jurys Inn BelfastApril 1997
Birmingham, England Jurys Inn Birmingham March 2001
Bradford, EnglandJurys Inn BradfordJuly 2011
Brighton, EnglandJurys Inn BrightonDecember 2007
Jurys Inn Brighton WaterfrontDecember 2015
Cardiff, Wales Jurys Inn CardiffOctober 2015
Cheltenham, EnglandJurys Inn CheltenhamOctober 2015
Cork, Ireland Jurys Inn CorkAugust 1994
Derby, EnglandJurys Inn DerbyJune 2009
Dublin, IrelandJurys Inn Dublin ChristchurchMay 1993
Jurys Inn Dublin Parnell StreetAugust 2004
Edinburgh, ScotlandJurys Inn EdinburghJuly 1998
Exeter, EnglandJurys Inn Exeter2009
Galway, IrelandJurys Inn GalwayApril 1993
Glasgow, ScotlandJurys Inn GlasgowAugust 2003
Greater London, EnglandJurys Inn London Croydon March 2002
Jurys Inn London Watford March 2009
Leicestershire, EnglandJurys Inn East Midlands, East Midlands Airport, Leices October 2015
Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Hinckley October 2015
Inverness, ScotlandJurys Inn InvernessOctober 2015
Leeds, EnglandJurys Inn LeedsFebruary 2004
Liverpool, EnglandJurys Inn LiverpoolApril 2008
Manchester, EnglandJurys Inn ManchesterApril 1999
Middlesbrough, EnglandJurys Inn MiddlesbroughOctober 2015
Milton Keynes, EnglandJurys Inn Milton KeynesAugust 2006
Newcastle/Gateshead, EnglandJurys Inn NewcastleFebruary 2003
Jurys Inn Newcastle QuaysideAugust 2011
Nottingham, EnglandJurys Inn NottinghamSeptember 2005
Oxford, EnglandJurys Inn OxfordOctober 2015
Plymouth, EnglandJurys Inn PlymouthJune 2007
Prague, Czech Republic Jurys Inn PragueAugust 2009
Sheffield, EnglandJurys Inn SheffieldJanuary 2009
Southampton, EnglandJurys Inn SouthamptonMay 2005
Swindon, EnglandJurys Inn SwindonJune 2009
Watford, EnglandJurys Inn WatfordMarch 2009

Awards

The chain received the following accolades:

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