New London hotel defies recession | guardian.co.uk

1,000-room Park Plaza Westminster Bridge to open despite drop in UK tourism and difficulties for hotel companies. It will be London's biggest ever hotel in a generation, boasting 1,021 guest rooms in a dramatic glass-clad heart-shaped building at the southern end of Westminster Bridge. When the £350m project is finished early next year, opening onto a new landscaped and pedestrianised area beside the former Greater London Council's...