MNVillan Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Mic09 said: It's a perfect place for a hotel if you want to have major music events, European football, hospitality, transportation to city centre, etc. It's a smart long term investment. I doubt many people from north London sleep in Wembley hotels. If I was going to Brum, I’d stay in the city centre again and bus or train to VP, not Vice versa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, MNVillan said: If I was going to Brum, I’d stay in the city centre again and bus or train to VP, not Vice versa. At the moment yes, but what if you had an all singing all dancing luxury hotel with bars and restaurants on the Villa Park Complex? How did your trip go? I remember talking about it in here when it was at the planning stage, I didn’t know it had gone ahead? Edited December 29, 2021 by DaveAV1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 14 hours ago, Mic09 said: It's a perfect place for a hotel if you want to have major music events, European football, hospitality, transportation to city centre, etc. It's a smart long term investment. I doubt many people from north London sleep in Wembley hotels. I've stayed in a Wembley hotel when we played spurs away and I stayed in london for the weekend The only chance a hotel would have there is if it was a budget hotel and could offer someone off the motorway a cheap night and then decent connections to the city centre and / or airport At the moment those connections aren't there, a hotel at VP would die on its ass, Genting already does most of what people think a hotel at VP would do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 7 hours ago, DaveAV1 said: At the moment yes, but what if you had an all singing all dancing luxury hotel with bars and restaurants on the Villa Park Complex? How did your trip go? I remember talking about it in here when it was at the planning stage, I didn’t know it had gone ahead? He posted some really good reviews of his trip in the Palace and Man City threads (the two games him and his good lady attended) Worth a read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 18 hours ago, MNVillan said: If I was going to Brum, I’d stay in the city centre again and bus or train to VP, not Vice versa. Depends on the situation.. If I was staying to catch a game, I'd rather stay walking distance from Villa Park and, if needed, catch public transport later in the day / next day into Birmingham to have a look around. The sheer volume of people exiting a game makes it more appealing to stay at a hotel by the ground to chill - especially if it had all the facilities of a proper nice hotel. Maybe in the future Villa Park will be included as a tram stop making it even easier to get to the city centre or Star City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 31, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) On 28/12/2021 at 22:56, The Fun Factory said: It is not in the right location to have a hotel. Too far out of town and very little facilities nearby for a guest apart from low priced unhealthy food. The hotel will compliment the clubs conference facilities. Outside of match days VP is a very busy conference and dinner venue. A Hotel will bolster that. You could roll straight out of the conference/dinner straight into bed without leaving the venue or messing with Taxis Edited December 31, 2021 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 6 hours ago, sidcow said: The hotel will compliment the clubs conference facilities. Outside of match days VP is a very busy conference and dinner venue. A Hotel will bolster that. You could roll straight out of the conference/dinner straight into bed without leaving the venue or messing with Taxis Is it? I knew it was something that we offer but the actual take up of it I'm clueless on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 31, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, villa4europe said: I knew it was something that we offer but the actual take up of it I'm clueless on It's pretty good, there's quite a lot goes on at Villa Park outside of matchdays. Conferences, christmas parties, weddings, a panto, all sorts of stuff to keep the hospitality department ticking over. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 31, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2021 13 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Is it? I knew it was something that we offer but the actual take up of it I'm clueless on I've booked myself VP for Conferences and also attended a number of conferences and corporate events there. They do weddings and stuff too. Trinity Road stand is superb for it but I've also been to events in The North Stand and The Holte Hotel. And obviously The Holte Suite is available to hire. VP is busy all the time on non matchdays. Incidentally I've been to events at other Football Clubs but the viewof the pirch/stadium from The Trinity Stand is seriously impressive and is ways a topic of conversation with people attending who have never been to VP before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villabromsgrove Posted December 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2021 I was feeling really down when the terraced seating in the Trinity got too challenging for me due to my age. Giving up my season ticket broke my heart, but hospitality packages organised by my sons have resurrected my ability to go to Villa Park. 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Heard we are renaming the holte end the kop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 1 minute ago, hippo said: Heard we are renaming the holte end the kop. Have a day off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 57 minutes ago, hippo said: Heard we are renaming the holte end the kop. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 Aren't those plans due out soon? I wonder how that season ticket queue is looking following the last few days? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 minute ago, sidcow said: Aren't those plans due out soon? I wonder how that season ticket queue is looking following the last few days? ST waiting list now up to 80k people waiting. Redevelopment pending Coutihno arrival, plans ammended to 90000 all seater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: ST waiting list now up to 80k people waiting. Redevelopment pending Coutihno arrival, plans ammended to 90000 all seater. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: ST waiting list now up to 80k people waiting. Redevelopment pending Coutihno arrival, plans ammended to 90000 all seater. Not big enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 hours ago, sidcow said: Aren't those plans due out soon? honest its piece of piss to check Planning Application Search (birmingham.gov.uk) punch in B6 6HE in the address and everything at Villa Park will come up, you then click the application number, go down near the bottom of the next page and then click on view associated documents...and everything is there for anyone to look at (nothing is new though) the harder thing is to find out who is working on the new stuff, being trying to find out who the project manager and main contractor is for the new academy building (because i work in construction) and i cant find a thing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 24 minutes ago, villa4europe said: honest its piece of piss to check Planning Application Search (birmingham.gov.uk) punch in B6 6HE in the address and everything at Villa Park will come up, you then click the application number, go down near the bottom of the next page and then click on view associated documents...and everything is there for anyone to look at (nothing is new though) the harder thing is to find out who is working on the new stuff, being trying to find out who the project manager and main contractor is for the new academy building (because i work in construction) and i cant find a thing Yeah, it was a rhetorical question, my point was really about season ticket demand after this transfer window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: honest its piece of piss to check Planning Application Search (birmingham.gov.uk) punch in B6 6HE in the address and everything at Villa Park will come up, you then click the application number, go down near the bottom of the next page and then click on view associated documents...and everything is there for anyone to look at (nothing is new though) the harder thing is to find out who is working on the new stuff, being trying to find out who the project manager and main contractor is for the new academy building (because i work in construction) and i cant find a thing HB Architects 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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