HotelMalmaison Belfast

The author finds this hotel the ''most stylish hotel'' in Belfast city centre. It's decorated with ''whimsical flora and fauna'' wall paintings and a sense of ''gothic opulence''. One of the suites, ''Samson and Goliath'' as named after ''Belfast's landmark cranes'' (in the Harland & Wolff shipyard where the Titanic ship was built) is ornamented wi [more]

We are told that this hotel has been acquired by the "small, chic Malmaison chain" and that as a result of this it has been transformed from a "historic and warm" place to somewhere that is now "cool, sleek, and modern". The hotel itself was originally "two classically ornate Italianate warehouses" back in "the mid-1850s", which now converted are s [more]

Confirming his initial impression created by the blacks, purples and golds of the public rooms as "cosy gothic" the author found the Malmaison housed within the shell of one of Belfast's "grand old" hotels. The guestrooms are small but the velvets, furnishings and appointments give them "warmth and atmosphere". He particularly liked the "extra-firm [more]