Malmaison Hotel Belfast is a hotel within a listed building in the city of
Belfast
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in
County Antrim
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Northern Ireland
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. It is on the corner of Victoria Street and Marlborough Street and was formerly The McCausland Hotel.
Features
It is built in what were two seed
warehouse
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s from the 1860s, retaining some original features including iron pillars and beams and carved stone
gargoyle
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s. It has 64 rooms, in bordello style, two rock’n’roll theme suites, and a bar and
brasserie
In France, Flanders, and the Francophone world, a brasserie () is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals. The word ''brasserie'' is also French for "brewery" and, by extension, "the bre ...
. It caters for meetings and conferences for up to 22 people. Before becoming the Malmaison it was The McCausland Hotel.
Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) bought the Malmaison boutique hotel group in 2000. In 2004 it bought the McCausland Hotel in Belfast, and reopened it as the Irish Malmaison in December that year. It included two rock’n’roll suites designed by managing director Robert Cook.
See also
*
Malmaison (hotel chain) Malmaison may refer to:
* Château de Malmaison, last residence of Napoleon, Rueil-Malmaison, a western suburb of Paris, France
* Greenwood LeFlore's home, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
* Malmaison (hotel chain), a UK hotel chain
* Malmaison Prison ...
References
External links
Malmaison
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Hotels in Belfast
Grade A listed buildings