Chris Rose, Managing Director at Serviced City Pads commented, “We are really excited by what we can achieve during 2011. Although today’s VAT hike isn’t going to help us or any other businesses, we believe that we can continue to improve on the growth that we have achieved during 2009 and 2010. There are a number of specific areas of focus for me and the team at Serviced City Pads.

Serviced City Pads will continue to look to grow it’s corporate client base. We offer a free account management service for companies with accommodation requirements across the UK, whether that is for individual project workers working away from home, or teams of workers working on longer term jobs in cities other than their home cities. It’s something we have become really good at and are keen to work with many more companies around the UK. If you are a company that sends it’s people to work away from home, you would benefit from contacting Serviced City Pads. Our aim is take the hassle out of finding the right accommodation for project workers as well as saving your company money.

Working with Stag and Hen companies, organising stag weekend accommodation and hen party apartments around the UK, is also a significant part of our business and our growth plans. We will continue to work effectively with the companies that already use Serviced City Pads whilst looking to broaden our client base, telling them of the good work that we already do (we know we can do better and our strive to improve is never ending). Serviced apartments are the perfect places to stay for large groups visiting a city for a weekend – as an alternative to staying in a city centre hotel, and this is an area we must continue to grow. If you work for a stag company then please contact me at Serviced City Pads. We will be delighted to discuss how working with Serviced City Pads can benefit your business.

Of course, our serviced apartment listings are our lifeblood. They allow us to take our bookings. It is free for serviced apartment operators to list their short stay apartments with SCP. Of course, there are many booking agents competing for the Operators time, but we believe that working with Serviced City Pads is a positive choice for Apartment operators. As I say, we offer a free service offering the chance of short leisure bookings to longer corporate stays. We are also a friendly and professional bunch to deal with. Why wouldn’t you list you properties with us?  Ultimately, we want all UK serviced apartments listed with us. If you are interested in learning more about having your apartments listed with us you can register your interest by clicking here.

We must continue to understand that our customer is king and we now have a dedicated Customer Serviced Manager. Serviced City Pads thrives with repeat business and word of mouth bookings. We believe that we offer a great service to our customers with great value accommodation to book. Our Rewards club will be pushed much more vigorously during 2011 as this a terrific vehicle to ensure that repeat Serviced City Pads customers are rewarded for their loyalty. We also need to ensure that more short stay apartments are available to book online via www.servicedcitypads.com. Online bookings will be a massive growth area for us in 2011 as long as we can offer our customer the right choices at the right price.

We will hopefully see the UK economy grow during 2011. With returning confidence in the corporate sector, we must ensure that we are in the best position possible for companies to choose Serviced City Pads as their accommodation booking agent.

Happy New Year from Serviced City Pads, we wish you a happy and prosperous 2011.”

Serviced apartments are generally much larger than hotel rooms, staying in a weekend apartment means that more people can stay under one roof. A number of our apartments can sleep up to 8 people in 2 or 3 bedrooms which generally means that the apartments work out to be more economical than staying in hotels for large groups. The average size of stag groups is around 14 people. This means that rather than having to book 7 x twin bedroom hotel rooms, your group will be able to stay in just 2 or 3 apartments which means the group is less split up.

As the apartments also offer a spacious living room with TV and a DVD player, this means that the group can congregate in 1 of the apartments and watch a film or some sport before they venture out into the city centre for a meal or a few drinks. Of course, staying in a serviced apartment means that you can enjoy some drinks before you go out which is often a great start to the evening, as well as saving money on what is likely to be quite an expensive night out. Of course you are already saving money by staying in a serviced apartment which makes it easier to stomach some of the high end bar prices.

If the group can’t agree which type of restaurant you would like to go to, then that’s no problem. A serviced apartment has a fully fitted modern kitchen which means you can cook a meal together before you go out. This will also save money v eating in a city centre restaurant. You can also cook whatever everybody in the stag group fancies. 

If you are organising a stag weekend and staying in a city centre serviced apartment sounds like a good idea then you should call Serviced City Pads. We will be delighted to help organise your stag weekend accommodation whether you are staying in Bristol, London or Edinburgh.

Some of the popular stag weekend destinations that Serviced City Pads organises accommodation in are: stag weekends in Liverpool, stag weekend accommodation in Bristol and stag do apartments in Edinburgh, but we will be happy to find your group the right apartments wherever you decide to stay.

Chris Rose, Managing Director at Serviced City Pads commented, “We are delighted to be working with Perfect Getaways. This is a huge step forward for Serviced City Pads. Visitor numbers to The Telegraph website are astronomical and we are delighted that our operators will be able to benefit from this increase in traffic. 

We anticpate a big increase in demand for booking serviced apartments online with Serviced City Pads.

This is a great opportunity for our current apartment operators and also for new serviced apartment providers who don’t currently work with Serviced City Pads. We are constantly looking to expand our customer offer. Any new operators will be required to make their apartments available to book online.

I would like to see us expand listings for serviced apartments in Bristol, serviced apartments in London, serviced apartments in Leeds, serviced apartments in Edinburgh and serviced apartments in Dublin.

If you don’t currently list your serviced apartments with Serviced City Pads, but would like to take advantage of the increased traffic that this new partnership will deliver, you will need to register. Click here and send us some details. We will set you up with a unique user ID which will allow you to add your property listings and set your apartments live to book.

Listing your apartments with Serviced City Pads is Free of charge!

We will be looking to phase out listings that aren’t made available to book online, so will be encouraging all current apartment operators with listings on our site (but that aren’t currently available to book online) to make their apartments available to book online with live availability. This will be to the benefit for everybody involved.

If you have any further questions about listing your apartments with Serviced City Pads please send us an email to info@servicedcitypads.com and we will be delighted to let you know the benefits of working with us.

Chris Rose, Managing Director at Serviced City Pads commented, “We are delighted to be involved with SABA from the early stages. We believe that it is important that the serviced apartment booking industry has an official body to improve standards of professionalism and govern conduct. In the long run, by improving standards, guests will have an increased desire to stay in serviced apartments and the industry will thrive. SABA will see serviced apartment industry leaders sharing knowledge whilst offering a voice to the smaller operators in the sector. We are a company that prides itself on our professionalism and are really excited at being part of growing SABA over the coming months and years,” 

Serviced City Pads will sit on the SABA panel to ensure that the Association’s Codes of conduct are maintained across this growing industry.

To find out more about the benefits of becoming a member of The Serviced Apartment Bookers Association (SABA) go to www.the-saba.org.uk or call Chris Rose at Serviced City Pads on 0844 335 8866.

Serviced City Pads is an independently owned company that specialises in short and intermediate stay apartments across the UK and Ireland, offering a free account management service to it’s corporate accommodation clients.

Serviced City Pads have a number of industry contacts who are keen to take over leases for property developments that are already being managed as Serviced Apartments in London, Birmingham and any other cities around the UK. If you are a serviced apartment operator looking to sell the lease on your development, call Serviced City Pads. All calls will be dealt with in complete confidence.

Alternatively, if you are a short stay apartment operator looking to grow your business into cities that you don’t currently operate in please also call Serviced City Pads. We have  contacts who are looking to do deals on city centre property developments that would be delighted to be made aware of interested parties – particularly serviced apartment companies willing to commit to take long leases on their developments.

It was only a couple of years ago that Serviced apartment companies had a wide choice of newly buily and freely available city centre apartment blocks, in virtually every UK city. Things have changed somewhat, with the supply of such properties beginning to dry up. That is why contacting Serviced City Pads, who will act on your behalf in a consultative and professional manner, can only be a good thing for your serviced accommodation business.

There is still much room for growth in the UK serviced apartment industry, with key provincial cities such as Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester being seen as the areas of best potential.

If you would like to discuss further, please call Chris Rose on Serviced City Pads on 0844 335 8866.

We take the pain out of what can be a rather dull and time consuming process. We know that finding and booking corporate accommodation can be a drag for you. It takes valuable time out of your working day. We don’t care, because that’s what Serviced City Pads are here for. We will find and book all the accommodation that you need – whether it’s for yourself or your team – and our service to you is free. Using Serviced City Pads will save you hassle and time!  

Serviced City Pads are a professional, dynamic busines who are committed to delivering excellent service to our clients. We will act as your accommodation account manager, offering a one stop shop to fulfil all of the accommodation needs of your business across the UK.

Apart from the time saving aspect, we will also save your business money. Most businesses are still booking hotel rooms for their employees when they are working away from home. Serviced apartments – particularly when you consider that a 2 bedroom serviced apartment is usually around the same price as a hotel room, then the savings can be as a high as 50% v staying in a hotel.

There is no compromise when staying in a serviced apartment. You get much more space than the four walls of a hotel room and can also cook the food of your choice in a fully fitted modern kitchen. Eating in will also save the business a considerable amount of money over the lon term.

Of course, there is also the wellbeing of your employee. They will be able to relax and unwind much more in the spacious living area of a serviced apartment than a cramped hotel room. You can chillout and watch TV, and an apartment is more conducive to work in than a hotel. Workers will be more productive when they stay in a short stay corporate apartment.

We will reward you for every booking you make with us. Just click here to learn about how you will be rewarded for booking your accommodation. We value our customers loyalty. Joining the Serviced City Pads rewards club doesn’t cost anything and there are no obligations once you have joined. The more serviced apartments you book, the more points you will accumulate, and the more gift vouchers you will receive .

Chris Rose, Director at Serviced City Pads commented “We now have apartments listed on the site as far north as Aberdeen in Scotland down to Portsmouth on the South coast of England. New cities that we have recently added to the site include (amongst others) Cardiff, Belfast, London, Edinburgh and Leeds. We will continue to add serviced apartments to the site across more locations across the UK to allow us to compete with companies such as Booking.com and Laterooms. We do however, see our main area of growth in the corporate sector where we can offer considerable savings to companies who currently spend too much money on hotel rooms. We believe that staying in a serviced apartment offers a better experince than staying in a hotel, whether that’s apartments in Newcastle, Birmingham or London. We also believe that we can offer that improved experince at a cost allowing the company to save money. This must make sense in the current economic climate”

To enquire about booking a serviced apartment across the UK with Serviced City Pads, just call0151 709 8000. We will be delighted to help individuals looking for single night stays or large companies looking to set up a corporate contract to provide for their accommodation needs.

Chris Rose, Director at Serviced City Pads commented, “Birmingham was the obvious place for us to expand the Serviced City Pads brand to next. We are delighted to have added some top quality serviced apartments in Birmingham to our site, and look forward to taking many bookings for our partners in Birmingham.

Since the business was started in Liverpool in late 2007 we have been able to add over 2,000 serviced apartments across a number of UK cities including, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Chester, and now London, Newcastle and Birmingham. We plan to increase our coverage throughout the UK during 2009.

With the current economic conditions it feels like serviced apartments are fast becoming seen and used as a better option in terms of value for money, for corporate customers who have previously stayed in hotels. We feel that Serviced City Pads is well positioned to take advantage of this shift by offering a professional booking service to private and corporate visitors throughout the UK.”

*Hospitality packages go on sale on MONDAY 4^TH AUGUST 2008 at 8am. You can purchase your Grand National hospitality packages by calling Aintree racecourse on 0151 522 2911 during office hours, visiting the Aintree booking office or by calling the new 24 hour ticket hotline on 0844 579 3001.

*Tickets and Badges will be available to purchase from MONDAY 18^th AUGUST 2008 at 8am. As well as the options set out above, you can also book online at www.aintree.co.uk as well as by postal application (booking forms can be found at www.aintree.co.uk).

*Tickets and badges will be available to buy in person from Aintree racecourse from MONDAY 1^st SEPTEMBER at 9am.

Be quick as tickets sell out quickly and if you have visited Liverpool before during Grand National weekend you will know that all the good accommodation in Liverpool gets snapped up quickly as well.

To ensure that you stay in a good quality short stay serviced apartment during your visit to Liverpool you should call Serviced City Pads. We provide a range of serviced apartments in Liverpool that suit a range of budgets and tastes. Serviced City Pads will provide you with a number of options of where to stay during your visit to Liverpool and find you the perfect place to stay. Serviced apartments are a great alternative to staying in a hotel in Liverpool. Serviced apartments offer more space, privacy and value for money than a hotel room in Liverpool.

Call Chris or Martin at Serviced City Pads on 0151 709 8000 and they will be delighted to help you find the perfect place to stay for your visit to Liverpool. Alternatively, have a look at our website www.servicedcitypads.com and check out our large selection of serviced apartments across Liverpool city centre and beyond.

www.servicedcitypads.com

+44 (0) 151 709 8000

Liverpool turned 800 years old during 2007 – and what a rollercoaster ride it has been!

On your short stay in a Serviced                City Pad in Liverpool enjoy celebrating the story of Liverpool, the magical mystery tour takes visitors on a fast paced, dynamic journey of discovery, with the help from time travelling taxi driver. Told through the lives of Liverpool people through the ages, the exhibition charts the city’s growth from a tiny fishing village to a busy port.

You can discover the very origins of Liverpool and why King John decided to establish a town here in 1207, examine the Liverpool charters and look around the reconstruction of the long lost Liverpool Castle. Trace the evolution of the settlement from its earliest pre-historic roots and examine life in the medieval and early modern town – through political turmoil in medieval times to the English Civil War in 1644 – before the ports emergence as a Victorian metropolis of global significance when Liverpool was dubbed ‘the second city of the British Empire’.

The story is brought up to date with the challenges faced by those living in the city during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as a dramatic drop in life expectancy and the blitz that altered the very face of the city in the 1940’s.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Please contact either Martin or Chris from Serviced City Pads in Liverpool on 0151 709 8000 who can select from over 100 apartments within Liverpool City Centre for your short stay in Liverpool. Please look on www.servicedcitypads.com