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Italy: Hybrid hotel brand A&O has announced the opening of A&O Venice Mestre, its first hotel in Italy.
The hotel, designed by Italian architect Sandro Bisà, has an arcade passageway in the entrance area, an exterior façade consisting of black glass tiles, and an expansive inner courtyard with trees measuring up to 14 metres in height.
It features 309 rooms with a focus on double and family rooms, and houses a total of 986 beds. The building is 400 metres away from the Venezia Mestre train station.
“With the new A&O Venice Mestre, we have not just opened up at a new location, but also expanded our portfolio to include the amazing travel destination of Italy,” said Oliver Winter, CEO of the A&O Group. “The new hotel is an important milestone in our expansion strategy, in which we make available new destinations to our guests by offering them affordable accommodations in popular cities.”
A&O Venice Mestre will cater mainly to travellers on short trips and school and university students. It anticipates 300,000 overnight stays a year, which accounts for 80 per cent of its total capacity.
