Skegness Magazine

news story date 24th June 2006

Today saw the grand opening of the Royal Renaissance Hotel, noe renamed the Royal Hotel, in Skegness. The £1.8 million project to completely renovate the former, tired looking Seacroft Hotel on South Parade, was undertaken by the Bola Family, T.K Bola, his brother Raj and sister Pam Kaur. A family member said that it was aptly named ‘Renaissance’ because the word means ‘rebirth’.

The hotel was officially opened by the Earl of Scarbrourgh, whose ancestor by the same title pioneered the building of Skegness as a seaside resort in the nineteenth century.

Guests to the Grand Opening of the Royal Renaissance included the Mayor and Mayoress of Skegness, the Town Clerk, Town Councillors, including the former Mayor of Skegness, Coun Brian O’Connor, members of the local clergy and the local authoress, Margaret Dickinson.

Guests were greeted in the reception hall by the Jolly Fisherman, the mascot of Skegness.

The VIPs gathered for the official opening, (L to R) Coun Mark Anderson, Jolly Fisherman, Margaret Dickinson, an East Lindsay District Council Representative, Henrietta, the Earl’s partner, the Earl of Scarborough, Mayor and Mayoress of Skegness. Mrs Crawshaw and Town Clerk, Alan Crawshaw.

The Earl of Scarbrough declared the Royal Renaissance Hotel officially open…

…and hundreds of balloons were released, almost swamping the VIPs…

momenteraly blotting out the sky…

…to finally drift off over the rooftops of the hotel.

The Earl of Scarbrough congratulated the Bola Family and wished them well in their venture.

The interior designer of the new Royal Renaissance hotel was presented with a bouquet of flowers by the Earl.

below: local authoress, Margaret Dickinson with the Earl of Scarbrough.

The Grand Opening was a huge success.
The Royal Renaissance has breath-taking views of the sea and beach, and has been refurbished to a luxurious, but certainly affordable, standard as seen in the photos below:
top left- the reception desk; top right- one of the dining rooms; bottom left- looking down a corridor; bottom right- the luxuriously painted renaissance style ceiling in the reception lobby.

The Royal Renaissance has a stretched limo and (below) two Tuk-Tuks, which have been specially shipped in from India.
The vehicles are to be used to transport the hotel’s guests.

Raj Bola, one of the hotel’s owners is pictured in the Tuk-Tuk.

The hotel also caters for special functions including weddings, gay weddings, wedding fayres, fashion shows or conferences.

Wedding, functions, events, public relations photographer Paul Gooch 07801540866

The Royal Hotel may have been plushly decorated fit for a King, but check out the prices at the hotel’s website - they are definitely not ‘Princely’
Visit the Royal Hotel Website

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