PRESS RELEASE OKKO HOTELS

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1 PRESS RELEASE APRIL 2015 OKKO HOTELS 4 stars, 3 new hotels opening in 2016 OKKO HOTELS, France s new 4star chain, continues to grow and now announces three new openings for 2016 in Cannes, Bayonne and RueilMalmaison. The year 2014 saw OKKO HOTELS open its first three hotels in Nantes, Grenoble and Lyon. Following on from their success among guests (an average of 9.2/10 on Booking.com for the three hotels), the chain is now ready to unveil even more exciting plans for the future!

2 CANNES CROISETTE A dynamic city known the world over, Cannes will soon witness OKKO HOTELS next grand opening. Installed in the same building as the railway station, this 125room hotel will be perfectly located only 5 minutes by foot from the famous Croisette waterfront avenue! The project forms part of an ambitious scheme to regenerate the city s railway station, led by Gares et Connexions and aiming to introduce a new range of high quality services to travellers. 3D view of the future OKKO HOTELS Cannes Croisette The Club at the OKKO HOTELS Cannes Croisette, an inviting and contemporary area designed by Patrick Norguet, will be positioned on the sixth floor and will boast magnificent views over the city. Hotel guests will also be able to make the most of the region s Mediterranean climate on a large outdoor terrace on the top floor of the building. This project sees OKKO HOTELS teaming up for the second time with VINCI Immobilier, the company who oversaw the development of the OKKO HOTELS Grenoble Jardin Hoche, and who is now managing the construction of this 6floor building alongside DGLa Architecture. The core construction work is already in place, and the shell of the building should be complete by the end of April The hotel s official opening is planned for March

3 BAYONNE CENTRE Leaving the Cote d Azur behind, it s off to the southwest of France where OKKO HOTELS will open its fifth hotel in the centre of the city of Bayonne! 3D view of the future OKKO HOTELS Bayonne Centre This hotel will form part of the Rivadour scheme, a new development of residential properties and offices executed by the architects at Mateo Arquitectura and overseen by developer Eiffage Immobilier. The hotel is financed by Bernard Decoster s family. The 92room hotel will be ideally positioned by the Pont Grenet bridge on the Boulevard du Bab, near the lively banks of the River Adour and only a tenminute walk from the Old Town. The hotel s Club, a genuine living area open to guests 24/7, will be located on the top floor of the hotel with a view over the river. As with every OKKO HOTELS, guests will find a whole range of services included in the price of their room. These will include a dining room offering snacks and refreshments around the clock, cosy lounge areas to read a book and relax, a business corner, a boutique offering local products and designer accessories, as well as a terrace adjoining the health and wellbeing area on the hotel s penultimate floor. Structural works are scheduled for completion in May 2015, and the OKKO HOTELS Bayonne Centre will open its doors to the public a year later, in May

4 PARIS RUEILMALMAISON OKKO HOTELS Paris RueilMalmaison, the group s first hotel in the surroundings of the French capital, will boast an ideal location at the heart of a dynamic business district accessible in 10 minutes by public transport from the centre of Paris. 3D view of the future OKKO HOTELS Paris RueilMalmaison The 110room hotel, in the process of being built by BOUYGUES Construction under the guidance of project developer FIMINCO, will form part of an ambitious redevelopment and modernisation of the district s RER Mobipôle train station. The elegant dressedstone building has been designed by the architect Loïc Richalet, and will also house a garden centre, a student residence and two restaurants. On the first floor of the hotel, guests will be able to enjoy a Club area boasting fully 300m² of floor space and a large outdoor terrace, all the work once more of our designer Patrick Norguet. A fitness gym will also be available on the fifth floor. Construction is well underway, with nearly half of the core structure already in place. OKKO HOTELS Paris RueilMalmaison should be ready to start welcoming guests in June 2016! 4

5 TO SUM UP IN A FEW WORDS, OKKO HOTELS IS The new chain of city centre hotels created by Olivier Devys (former manager at Accor and founder of Suitehotel) with support from Paul Dubrule (cofounder of the Accor group) The first allinclusive, fourstar concept in France 3 hotels opened in 2014, in Nantes, Grenoble and Lyon 3 hotels under construction in RueilMalmaison, Cannes and Bayonne (to open in the first half of 2016) 6 more confirmed projects A target of 50 hotels in 10 years PRESS CONTACT Lorraine de Boisanger Paris agence@ldeboisanger.com T OKKO HOTELS CONTACT Solenne Devys, Directrice Produit et Communication solenne.devys@okkohotels.com