They start this Tuesday (21), the construction works of B&B Hotel Porto Gaia, which will be located next to El Corte Inglès in Vila Nova de Gaia, on the main avenue of the northern city.
It will be a hotel 3 estrelas, com 13 pisos, on land that belonged to the Spanish retail chain, num investimento de 17,5 milhões de euros.
The new hotel, to be built within 18 meses, portanto, com abertura prevista para 2020, terá 210 rooms and capacity for 439 camas.
O group B&B Hotels, of French origin and which was acquired, at the end of last year, by the North American bank Goldman Sachs, currently has three units in Portugal (Cantanhede, Braga and Felgueiras), num total de 296 rooms and a dozen apartments.
Beyond B&B Hotel Porto Gaia, the brand is already under construction, in our country, o B&B Hotel Lisboa Airport, num investimento de 7,8 milhões de euros, e o B&B Montijo Hotel, budgeted at 5,5 milhões de euros, also planning to build hotels in cities like Oeiras, Sintra, Matosinhos, Olhão, Guimarães, Viseu or Viana do Castelo, an estimated global investment in 70 milhões de euros.
Casais is the company responsible for the construction of six group B hotel units&B Hotels, which also assumes the promotion of five of these hotels - Montijo, Oeiras, Vila Nova de Gaia, Olhão and Guimarães.
O group B&B Hotels has more than 500 Hotels and more than 40 mil quartos, espalhados por 12 países (Portugal, Espanha, França, Alemanha, Itália, Polónia, República Checa, Brasil, Áustria, Suíça, Slovenia and Belgium), and still recently had the goal of ending the year of 2020 com mais de 620 hotels and approximately 55 mil quartos.
As a result of its acquisition by Goldman Sachs, a partir de 1 de Janeiro de 2020 the group's goal is now to achieve the 3 Grand Hotels.
