The hotel company Meliá takes control of the Gran Hotel Monterrey in Lloret de Mar

2023-06-13 19:54:05

Meliá Hotels International will manage the Gran Hotel Monterrey of Lloret de Mar with which the hotel company arrives on the Costa Brava, thanks to an agreement with Okami Hotels, currently managing the property.

The future Meliá Lloret de Marname that the establishment will receivehopes to open its doors in the second quarter of 2024, in time to start the season. Before opening to the public, the hotel will be renovated to meet the standards of the Meliá Hotels & Resorts brand. After the remodeling, the hotel will have 200 rooms, two outdoor swimming pools and a solarium. The “wellness” area will have a gym and a spa, as well as two restaurants and a bar. The hotel company details that the establishment will also have different environments for indoor and outdoor meetings and events.

“Meliá is a company with Mediterranean origins and, for this reason, we will continue to bet on holiday destinations in Spain and on the repositioning of emblematic hotels», says Meliá’s vice-president and CEO, Gabriel Escarrer. “The proximity to the city of Barcelona makes it an establishment with great potential for the MICE segment”, according to the hotel company.

The hotel, closed

The hotel in Lloret de Mar remains closed since the pandemic. At the end of 2020, the staff of the establishment broadly ratified the agreement reached between the representation of CCOO workers and the company by the ERO that affects all staff. Now, union sources explain that ethey are waiting to find out how this move affects these workers, who plan to meet next week with representatives of the hotel company Meliá.

From Guitart to an investment fund

During the last years, the establishment in Lloret de Mar has had different owners, among them Guitar Hotels and a strange investment fundr. In 2016, the Guitart Hotels chain ceased to be the owner of the Monterrey de Lloret de Mar, the only five-star establishment owned by this family group based in the Selvatán municipality, with 60 years of history and which also has establishments in Barcelona and Cerdanya. A foreign investment fund took over the hotel, after the Girona chain owned it for more than a decade. With the sale of the Monterrey, Guitart Hotels aimed to pay off the mortgage debt that weighed on the establishment, which it acquired in 2004 for around 30 million euros, and, at the same time, face a new phase of growth. At the time, the general manager of Guitart Hotels, Miquel Trapé, explained that the decision was taken with “sadness” and the aim was to “clean up the company’s balance sheet” and focus “on the traditional business of Guitar”.