The Malmaison Group and Hotel du Vin chain – owned by Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) – have announced new UK openings for 2007–08.

The Malmaison Group will spend £7.5 revamping the Queen’s hotel in Aberdeen – which it recently acquired for £5.5m – into an 82-bedroom property with a brasserie featuring a butchers and fishmongers, so that guests can select their own dish for open-grill cooking. It is due to open in April 2008.

The Malmaison Liverpool will open later this month at Princess Dock, overlooking the Mersey. It comprises 130 bedrooms, a gym equipped by Technogym and five meeting rooms as well as an 80-seat brasserie, a 10-cover dining room and a four-cover wine-tasting cellar.

Hotel du Vin is also opening properties in Cheltenham in May 2007 as well as in Newcastle and Edinburgh in 2008.

A revamp of the former 100-year-old Carlton Hotel in Cheltenham will reduce the number of bedrooms from 75 to 48 in order to increase the size of each suite. The hotel will also boast a bistro, bar, cellar private dining room, café du vin and a spa.

A 144-year-old listed building – formerly the HQ of the Tyne & Wear Shipping Company and more recently a quayside warehouse – in Newcastle will be renovated into a 42-bedroom Hotel du Vin with a bistro and bar as well as private dining.

The Edinburgh Hotel du Vin – a revamp of the former Blood Transfusion Testing Lab in the Old Town – will comprise 42 bedrooms and suites, a bistro and bar, private dining, courtyard and gardens. Details: www.maimason.com or www.hotelduvin.com

Photograph: The Malmaison Liverpool, which will open later this month