Copthorne Hotel Cardiff—Caerdydd is a four star hotel (formerly five star) in Culverhouse Cross, a western suburb of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
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| Location | Copthorne Way, Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°27′51″N 3°16′18″W / 51.46417°N 3.27167°W |
| Opening | 1993 |
| Management | Millennium & Copthorne |
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| Number of rooms | 135 |
The hotel is operated by Millennium & Copthorne. It is located near the Wenvoe transmitting station, off the A4050 road near the Culverhouse Cross roundabout (which intersects with the A48 and the A4232).
The hotel has 135 bedrooms and also has a swimming pool, steam room, sauna, whirlpool and gymnasium.[1] It was built in 1993 and has a lake at the front of the hotel which, when built, had a mound built at the front to hide the lake from the view of the road.
The hotel was one of the earliest developments to take place at the Culverhouse Cross site as the development boom took off throughout the 1990s. Today the hotel is closely surrounded by retail outlets.
The hotel made the news in the early 2000s after two guests had died from Legionnaires' disease, caused by an incorrectly installed humidifier. The hotel was fined £40,000 on top of £15,000 costs.[2] The hotel made news again in the early 2020s after it was first used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers while their claims for asylum were assessed, then by Cardiff City Council as temporary accommodation for homeless families. Commenting on the decision to house homeless people at the hotel in September 2023, a spokesman for the Council described it as representing "better value for money than using hotels on an ad hoc, reactive basis".[3]
References
edit- ^ "Four Star Luxury In A Peaceful, Central Location". Millennium & Copthorne Hotels. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ "Legionnaires' deaths hotel fined". BBC News. 9 November 2005. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ Ahmed, Reem (6 September 2023). "Well known hotel to become temporary accommodation for homeless families". Wales Online. Retrieved 29 October 2023.