Telegraph Hotel hosts conferences for up to 140 delegates, dinners for 120, board meetings and weddings. The hotel occupies 157 Corporation Street in Coventry city center, the building that for more than half a century housed the city's main newspaper, and it has 88 bedrooms for delegates and wedding guests.
Seminars and company events
The Editors suite is the main meeting room. It takes 140 in theatre style, 84 at cabaret tables, 60 in classroom, 45 around a boardroom table and 40 in a U-shape, and a soundproof partition splits it into two rooms. Its audio-visual kit includes a PA system, roaming microphones, a music system with an auxiliary input, mood lighting, 55-inch screens, HD projectors and a folding screen. For smaller meetings, the Boardroom seats 12 and Directors takes 16 in theatre style or 12 around a table. Both have daylight, blackout blinds, air conditioning and a 55-inch screen. The hotel sells day delegate packages, 24-hour residential packages with dinner, bed and breakfast, and a Green Meeting package.
Weddings and receptions
Civil ceremonies take place in the Editors suite for up to 90 guests, and the partition can close off half the room for a smaller ceremony. The wedding package, subject to minimum numbers, includes a three-course wedding breakfast with tea and coffee, an arrival drink, a glass of Prosecco for the toasts, half a bottle of wine per guest, a cake stand and knife, a menu tasting for two, a duplex room for the couple on the wedding night and a return stay with dinner on the first anniversary. Guests can book rooms at a special rate.
Rooms and capacities
Editors: theatre 140, banquet 120, cabaret 84, classroom 60, boardroom 45, U-shape 40, divisible in two. Boardroom: 12 around the original table used in the 1950s. Directors: theatre 16, boardroom 12, U-shape 10. The Boardroom and Directors rooms were once meeting rooms of Lord Iliffe, the building's original owner.
Accommodation
The 88 bedrooms and suites are individually styled, and the hotel calls its guest rooms BIG rooms. Residential delegates and wedding parties can stay on site.
Catering
The kitchen serves finger buffets, hot and cold buffets, banqueting menus and barbecues, and seated dinners for up to 120 in the Editors suite. Forme & Chase, the restaurant, bar and lounge, takes its style from 1950s glamour. Generators Rooftop, a bar with an industrial look drawn from the old printworks, sits at the top of the building.
History and setting
Journalists, editors and printers worked here for more than 50 years, producing four editions a day of the Coventry Evening Telegraph. The conversion kept original features, such as the Boardroom table, alongside contemporary interiors, and the Lord Iliffe Suite is named after the original owner.
Getting there
The hotel stands in Coventry city center. According to the hotel, London is less than an hour away by train and Birmingham about 20 minutes. Birmingham Airport is the nearest airport.
