Our hotel owners
Some of our hotel owners include Chardon Leisure Limited, Stardon Investments Sarl, the Chardon Hotel Growth Fund LLP a s well as several private owners and investors
We provide a varied range of hotel management services that are bespoke to each individual hotel owner or investing group.
Chardon Leisure Limited
Chardon Leisure Limited is one of the investment vehicles within the ownership of the Taylor family.
Maurice Taylor, who has been in the hospitality industry for over 40 years, began his career with British Transport Hotels, where he successfully completed an international management training scheme at prestigious hotels such as Turnberry and Gleneagles.
Maurice joined the private Arfamco group as managing director, where he ran a group of three- and four-star hotels before forming his own company, Chardon Hotels. This private group was built up from one hotel to a group of eight, before being sold to the Queens Moat House Group. During this period, he was chairman of Best Western Hotels (UK).
Maurice went on to develop residential properties in London, the Parklands Country Club in Glasgow and a hotel complex in Portugal. He and his family currently own the Holiday Inn Glasgow, the Holiday Inn Express Glasgow Theatreland, the Quality Hotel at Edinburgh Airport and are currently developing Hotel Indigo Glasgow.
CML manages all the hotels owned by Maurice Taylor and his family.
Stardon Investments Sarl
Stardon Investments Sarl is a joint venture created in 2005 by Chardon Leisure Ltd. (10%) and Starwood Capital Europe* (90%).
Stardon owns the Holiday Inns at Brighton, Corby, East Kilbride, Leeds Garforth and Norwich Airport, Best Western’s Moorside Grange all of which are managed by CML.
In addition to the normal range of management services, CML has been closely involved in managing Stardon’s refurbishment programme at these hotels and in managing Stardon’s cash flows to meet debt service requirements.
Chardon Hotel Growth Fund LLP
Chardon Hotel Growth Fund LLP is a closed-end fund created in 2006. The fund totals approximately £31m which is to be invested in five branded hotels in the UK limited-service sector. The Fund’s General Partner has entered, or will, into individual management contracts with CML for each hotel. The General Partner is chaired by Fraser Livingston.
The fund recently bought the Holiday Inn Express Dumfermline from its previous owners with the benefit of a management contract with CML.
The fund most recently completed the development of the Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh - Royal Mile which is managed by CML.
Other private owners and investors
Chardon Management operates several other hotel management contracts for a diverse range of hotel owners and investor groups.
