The Tower Hotel in London is a 4-star business hotel with bedrooms and meeting facilities to host large residential meetings from the healthcare sector including those including HCPs.

Location

The hotel is located on the River Thames and a 10-minute walk from Tower Hill stations on London’s Underground and DLR networks which connect to London’s City Airport within 30 minutes and Heathrow and Gatwick within 75 and 50 minutes respectively.

The cities major train stations of Kings Cross, Victoria, London Bridge and Euston can all be reached in less than 30 minutes.

Large medical congresses that take place at ExCel can be easily reached in 30 minutes from the Tower Hill DLR station.

For delegates driving there is an 80-space carpark, and the hotel is outside the city’s congestion zone.

Design

The Guoman Tower Hotel was built in the 1970’s and is a 12-storey, concrete, purpose-built building in the East of London with mainly commercial business and residential buildings in the surrounding area but is on the edge of London’s tourist centre.

Meeting Spaces

NB: The TOWER SUITE is currently closed - only meetings for up to 50 can be accommodated

Bedrooms

The hotel has 801 bedrooms with Standard and Executive rooms however, when you remove the added amenities from the Executive rooms, these can also be considered in our opinion, appropriate for the allocation to HCPs. The hotel’s 18 Suites are likely to be consider appropriate for internal staff only.

A total of 801 bedrooms all come with views, either across the Thames or towards St. Katherine’s Dock and come in Standard, Executive or Suite categories across the 1st to the 11th floors and all come with business facilities such as a work desk, laptop safe, iron/ironing board, tea/coffee making facilities and own brand toiletries.

Restaurant and public spaces

The main Gallery hotel restaurant is on the first floor and is the location for guest buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner for 180 guests inside and a further 70 outside.

The Neville room located inside the restaurant can be utilised for privatised lunches for 50 but for dinner meetings, a private and confidential meeting room is required.

The Vicinity Restaurant is the hotels second restaurant serving modern street food and is located on the ground floor. This can be used for private functions of up to 250 but due to the table layout, would not be suitable for meetings where presentations are involved.

The VU Bar is the hotel’s main bar on the upper ground floor and overlooks the River Thames. There is no live music played however, the use of bars would not be proposed for any programme involving HCPs.

Experience

The hotel has the bedrooms and meeting facilities to play host to a range of meeting types from the healthcare sector including those involving HCPs.

These range from small Advisory Boards for 12 to large investigator meetings for 250 or sales conferences of over 500.

Its location and direct access to Excel makes it an excellent choice for congress blocks where large number of bedrooms and large numbers of HCPs can be allocated in the same category of bedrooms.

Fitness

The hotel offers residential guests use of a modest 24-hour fitness gym on the 11th floor. Free weights and fitness machines are available but there is no pool, jacuzzi or sauna and treatments are not available.

The Tower Hotel utilises the hotel’s close proximity and views of the River Thames, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London in its sales and marketing which predominantly aligns to the leisure market however, this should not deter bookers of healthcare meetings to consider the hotel in isolation as, in our opinion, appropriate for the hosting of healthcare meetings and events that involve HCPs, as it has the quantity of bedrooms and number of meeting rooms and sizes to support small, medium and large scale meetings.