Ten Square Hotel hosts conferences, corporate dinners and weddings for 20 to 260 guests, with 131 bedrooms in the same building. The four-star hotel occupies a listed Victorian warehouse at 10 Donegall Square South, in the center of Belfast, looking directly onto City Hall.
Seminars and company events
A dedicated conference and banqueting team plans and runs each event, from a short interview session to a full-day conference with dinner. The hotel publishes a conference brochure, a day delegate package and a corporate dining package, and catering ranges from a light business lunch to a full banquet. The central address is the main argument: delegates arriving by train or plane reach the door without a transfer, and the hotel can house a whole team overnight.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel has an in-house wedding team with coordinators and a banqueting team. It is licensed for civil ceremonies and civil partnerships, so the ceremony and the reception can take place under one roof. Four wedding packages are offered, named Silk, Satin, Lace and Linen. Couples can hire a Rolls-Royce Cullinan or Ghost through the hotel, and photographs are often taken in the gardens of City Hall across the street. Guests receive preferential rates on the 131 bedrooms, and couples living abroad can plan by email and video call.
Rooms and capacities
The Linenhall Suite is the main room: a naturally lit conference and banqueting space for 20 to 260 people, with its own pre-function area that also serves as registration. It has two bars, a dance floor, adjustable air conditioning, a data projector, a remote-controlled screen, roving microphones, a lectern and plasma screens. The Flax Suite is a brighter contemporary conference room with a 60-inch curved screen and air conditioning. On the seventh floor, the Weaver Suite is a boardroom for up to eight people with a large smart TV, next to The Loft.
Accommodation
The 131 bedrooms are split between 23 individually designed rooms in the historic Yorkshire House and 108 newer rooms. Categories include Classic and Executive rooms and named suites such as the Jaffe Penthouse, Lanyon, Yorkshire, Doffer and Spinner.
Catering
All food comes from the hotel kitchens. Jospers is the grill restaurant, serving steaks and seafood with meat from a Ballymena butcher. The Doffer Bar has live music and sport, the Linen Bar serves local gins and cocktails, and The Loft is a rooftop bar on the seventh floor that also serves afternoon tea.
History and setting
According to the hotel, the building was put up in 1862 as a linen warehouse, before Belfast City Hall, and later served as the General Post Office. It is a listed landmark known as Yorkshire House. The site once held Georgian houses where the physician and poet William Drennan lived. The hotel opened around the turn of the millennium.
Getting there
The hotel is in the city center, within walking distance of the main shopping streets. Belfast City Airport is a short taxi ride away, and Belfast International Airport is reached by express coach.
