Hilton Brighton Metropole

The Hilton Brighton Metropole is a 4-star hotel and conference centre located on the seafront in Brighton, East Sussex.

Hilton Brighton Metropole
The hotel from the south-southwest
Location within Brighton
Hotel chainHilton Hotels & Resorts
General information
AddressKing's Road, Brighton BN1 2FU, United Kingdom
Coordinates50.821818°N 0.148884°W / 50.821818; -0.148884
Opening1890
Cost£57,000
OwnerTopland Group
ManagementHilton Hotels
Technical details
Floor count7
Design and construction
ArchitectAlfred Waterhouse
DeveloperGordon Hotels Company
Other information
Number of rooms340
Number of restaurants1
Parking250
Website
Official website
[1][2]

The architect was Alfred Waterhouse, who also was architect of University College London and the Natural History Museum, London.[3]

Currently the UK's largest residential conference centre in the South of England, it was built in 1890 and has 340 bedrooms. The General Manager is Sascha Koehler who has worked with Hilton for 20 years. Since 2000, it has been operated by Hilton Hotels & Resorts (previously it operated under the Stakis brand), and previously owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland, its freehold is now owned by the Topland Group.[4]

It is referenced in section 3, "The Fire Sermon" of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Notes
  1. Collis 2010, pp. 200–201.
  2. "Hilton Brighton Metropole hotel". Hilton Hotels & Resorts. 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  3. My Brighton & Hove website, accessed 8 November 2011
  4. "RBS sells Brighton seafront hotel for £39m". BBC News. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-11.

Bibliography
  • Collis, Rose (2010). The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton. (based on the original by Tim Carder) (1st ed.). Brighton: Brighton & Hove Libraries. ISBN 978-0-9564664-0-2.


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