News / Hotel delivery
A BOATLOAD of fully furnished hotel rooms sailed into Lerwick harbour at the weekend ready for their final journey.
The ready made rooms will end up at the building site at Moorfield in Brae where they will be pieced together to create Shetland’s largest hotel.
The 100 bedroom building will house workers building the £500 million gas plant for French oil giant Total at Sullom Voe over the next five years.
The rooms were designed by McAleer & Rushe and constructed in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland by Sipfit, complete with bed, mini bar and en suite bathroom. There are even paintings on the wall.
“The only things that’s missing is a TV,” said the company’s finance director Eamon Higgins.
At Warrenpoint Harbour, south of Belfast, all 100 plastic-wrapped rooms were loaded onto the cargo ship Arklow Moor, from where they were shipped to Lerwick.
They will be fitted together to form the Moorfield Hotel over the next four months.
The work, funded with a £6.5 million package from the Royal bank of Scotland, is being carried out by Glasgow-based BDL Management Ltd.
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