Encouraging Future Superstars

As a proud Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, I agree wholeheartedly with one of the organisations key aims to ‘Help inspire and develop young people and educators to help ensure hospitality is seen as a progressive career choice’. This is why we attend, and...

Oh Adrian, what have you done?

On March 20th, respected broadcaster, writer and journalist Adrian Chiles used his regular (and usually brilliant) column in The Guardian to launch a bitter attack on ‘bedspreads and cushions’. What, you might wonder has Adrian got against cushions? Our managing...

Unbelievable Reaction to The Residence at Mandolay

In January we were delighted to announce the opening of our brand new ‘aparthotel’ facility, The Residence, and like any new idea we were unsure of the way that it might be received. Just two months later and it is 100% certain that we had absolutely no cause for...

Flippin’ Marvellous

We were delighted to once again enter a team in the Guildford Pancake Races, which took place on the High Street earlier this month. This is the 20th anniversary of pancake racing in Guildford, and as you can see from our team photo, the sun came out to mark the day...

And the winner is

Over the past few years, Mandolay has been fortunate enough to pick up our fair share of awards and accolades, including recognition from Condé Nast Johansens, Green Tourism and of course, the AA. Earlier This week we received notification that we have been nominated...

Matthew Keeps on Running

Fresh from his efforts in the recent Bournemouth event, Mandolay Managing Director Matthew Milliken is packing his running gear and heading north to Edinburgh to take part in their prestigious half-marathon. Once again Matthew will be raising funds for Cancer Research...