Showing posts with label Corinthia Hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corinthia Hotels. Show all posts

Monday, 29 September 2014

What's Floating Around Cloud 9? 29 September 2014

Welcome to another week and we can't think of a better time to announce a new service here at Cloud 9 which is golf related...especially seeing as the Ryder Cup success of Europe over the weekend has really highlighted the sport.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, or kidnapped by aliens then you probably already know the details as the coverage over the weekend has been extensive.

Held at one of our favourite destinations, Gleneagles, it was a case of Gimme In The Glen: Keegan Bradley conceding Jamie Donaldson's putt halfway down the 15th fairway to confirm the point that Europe needed, with almost half the matches still out on the course and almost half the course trying to get to that match. 

The climax was not short of romance, though. To a list of unheralded names to have sealed the critical point in a Ryder Cup - Philip Walton, Jose Maria Canizares, Paul McGinley - we can now add Donaldson; 39 next month, on his competition debut, a player who had to wait until his 37th year for his first European Tour win.

So with the golf buzz all around, we'd like to introduce you to Fore!

Working alongside our friends at Hawthorn Golf we are now able to offer a range of packages for the corporate market including some very special and exclusive deals both in the UK and Internationally.

Hawthorn Golf Limited has many years’ experience in successfully organising and hosting both corporate and society golf events. All designed to meet their customer’s expectations and budget, and we are working quite closely with them on this!

We will work in partnership with you to provide a bespoke package for your event, tailored from start to finish to your requirements, combined with additional enhancements / features and the excellent customer service which set us apart from the competition.

Whether you’re looking for a Ladies Afternoon Tee, Meet-4-Golf, Ryder Cup Event or just a corporate Golf outing with your colleagues, then we have just the service for you! 

Please email us for details or take a look at the website for additional information.

In other news this week, whilst we are always looking for new team building activities, we came across something we'd not heard of before, which we like the look of.

wine-and-grapesPaint-A-Holics is an arts and entertainment company which came to fruition through a desire to share our skills, creativity, and positivity with others through painting. If you need help stepping out of your comfort zone and want to learn how you make a beautiful painting, then look no further. They offer group classes, private parties, children’s parties, private instruction, and commissioned works.

Unfortunately this is only available in the US at present, but we are fairly sure someone in the UK will be offering this service before long! 


Each guest gets Step-by-step art instruction from a professional artist  (Private painting classes are approximately 3 hours long), Painting materials include a 16” x 20” canvas, easels, aprons, brushes and paint. Sounds messy, but fun! 

Finally this week, we'd like to thank our friends at Corinthia Hotels for a stunning weekend in Lisbon. With nine fantastic locations, we've now managed to see three including London and Budapest, so only another six to go!

Have a great week.....







 

Monday, 21 July 2014

What's Floating Around? 21 July 2014

Our blog this week is written by the lovely Helen….

Welcome to another week at Cloud 9 towers. From a promised British heatwave, which true to form for English weather only lasted a day here, to two new members joining the team, it’s been a busy busy week!

Our two new interns, Toby and Helen, have been getting stuck into life at Cloud 9 and learning the ropes. Toby who’s nervously waiting for his A Level results, is hoping to study Management at London School of Economics in September, so we’re all trying our best to keep his mind off it by keeping him busy. Helen who studies business at Loughborough University, is here for a few weeks to learn more about event management, before she goes back for her final year.

So what have we been up to this week?

We've been busy with lots of visitors coming to join us in our ‘so not bored room’ aka our meeting room, including Sharon Bannister and her team from Corinthia, Graham Saunders from Sandals, who invited Rubina to Jamaica to see their fifteen resorts, and Jade Sill from Best Western group.

Needless to say we've kept the biscuit tin topped up this week, and the kettle on constant boil. Our doors are always open, so let us know if you want to pop in and have a chat to us. We’ll provide the biscuits!  

Paula had a brilliant time at The PA Club at Alea casino, presenting Cloud 9’s newest venture ‘FUSE’ on Thursday. FUSE is our free venue finding service, and we’re all about taking the hassle out of your event, by offering advice on social media, event styling and post event evaluation techniques. Her game of ‘30 things in our event survival bag’ went down a treat over dinner, with many weird and random guesses.

We've been inundated with entries for the Fresh Awards, so we've been busy processing, unpacking and being blown away by the quality of entries so far. Don’t forget the deadline is the 31st of July, so keep those entries coming! Harriet’s been busy booking entertainment for the judging panel for Fresh, they've certainly got some treats lined up after a busy day of judging.

Next week looks to be as bustling as this one, with Harriet, Rubina and Toby off to visit Yew Lodge Hotel, which Jade Sill kindly invited us to visit before the £0.25 million makeover starts in January 2015.

Paula, Shannon and Toby are off to London on Thursday for the PR judging for the Fresh Awards, our award programme to recognise and reward the best in Creative, Digital, Media and Public Relations in the UK.

Harriet & Rubina are off to the Village Hotel for the reopening of the Verge Bar and Grill, to sample their new dishes, and yes we are jealous! Finally on Friday afternoon, we’re off on a staff outing to the Hinckley Island Hotel, I think a treat is in order after our hard work over the last couple of weeks!

So that's it for this week folks, have a good one!