50+ VAT
A local entrepreneur and bon viveur has celebrated his birthday in style. Gordon Vickers, hotelier, entertainer, and business supremo threw a spectacular party in the Mill Hotel & Spa Destination that continued along the city’s waterways. The hotel is part of Gordon’s extensive property portfolio, from Chester’s ancient canals to the rocks of Gibraltar.
A charismatic figure on the social circuit, Gordon announced with typically dry humour that he was celebrating 50 years plus VAT. Gordon has seen many fluctuations in tax in his long business career, notably the “one for you, nineteen for me” of Harold Wilson’s Labour premiership, immortalised by the Beatles song Taxman. It has also been suggested that Gordon had a hand in the Fab Four’s early career, a rumour which he has enticingly refused to confirm or deny.
Gordon was joined by a party of friends and colleagues on a cruise around Chester’s canals, with time to soak up Roman history amid the Bacchanalia. Visitors to Chester looking to recreate Gordon’s experience can book a place on an hour long Canal Cruise. Tickets are £10 and can be booked in advance by ringing 01244 350035. Roman High Tea Tours run at weekends 4-5pm currently, planned for the rest of the week later and as required.
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Situated on an historic Roman site in the middle of the City of Chester, the Mill Hotel and Spa Destination was opened by its present owners in 1987. The original Griffiths Cornmill building dates from 1830 and great care has been taken to sympathetically incorporate many of the original architectural features during the conversion into a hotel.
The Mill has been extended in recent years with the addition of the impressive south wing, linked to the original building via a glass walled bridge over the Shropshire Union Canal reminiscent of the City of Venice.
The hotel can rightly say it is Chester’s complete hotel and leisure destination with 129 en-suite bedrooms, Free Wi FI Internet, extensive dining and restaurant options, conferencing facilities, and unrivalled leisure facilities including Beauty Spa, Nail Bar, Hair Salon and unrivalled leisure facilities including a Technogym Gymnasium, Kinesis Studio, Pool, Sauna and Steam Room. It has the highest occupancy figures of any Chester hotel.
Dining options include the Canaletto and the Flambé Steak restaurants, the Restaurant Cruiser, Peppermill Trattoria and Real Ale Bar and Deli Counter.
For more information visit: www.millhotel.com Contact: Emma Ratchford, Gordon Vickers or Maretta Williams, The Mill Hotel & Spa, Tel: 01244 350035
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