Trotter wrote: Im looking for 3 months Leisure centre membership, but Im having no luck with the Ard Ri or the Tower etc. Im gonna try and get across town to the Waterford Crystal gym and pool, can anyone tell me what its like? Is the equipment good, do the staff do programs etc.. Thanks!
angry_fox wrote: Wouldint bother with the Ard Ri, its going to be closed down for a year after the 22nd of December
Cabaal wrote: the whole place or just the gym?
angry_fox wrote: Whole place will be closed
Leonard wrote: As far as I know the Gym will remain open for as long as they can.
angry_fox wrote: Whole of the ard ri is going to be closed on the 22nd of December, €20 million is going to be invested into the hotel, staff have also not been guaranteed there jobs next year but they are welcome to re-apply for a position next year.
From Waterford News And Star: A MASSIVE development at the Ard Ri Hotel, including its expansion and the provision of a nursing home and retirement village on-site, has received the final ‘thumbs up’ for planning permission, the Waterford News & Star can reveal. The face of the city’s most prominent landmark hotel is set to change forever following the granting of permission by An Bord Pleanála to developers Viewforth Ltd. for their ambitious project. The multi-million €uro development will see the current Ard Ri become a 160-bed four-star hotel and leisure centre. However, a completely new departure will also see it surrounded on its commanding Ferrybank site by a threestorey nursing home and a four-block complex of retirement apartments, the occupants of which will share the hotel’s leisure facilities. The proposal, uniquely, was the subject of two separate planning application given that part of the site is located within Waterford’s boundary and the other part within the boundary of Co. Kilkenny. The applications to both local authorities were granted permission but appeals were lodged to An Bord Pleanála in both cases. In Waterford, those who lodged were Pat and Sheila Hayes, neighbouring property owners, together with George and Antoinette Kavanagh — as well as city Green party member Brendan McCann. However, An Bord Pleanála confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) they’ve issued a final grant of planning permission for both applications which now paves the way for the project to proceed. They’ve imposed a number of conditions but overall they shouldn’t provide too many headaches for the developers. Two of the apartment blocks are to be reduced in height while a planned coach parking area is to be moved from one area to another to provide open space. As part of the plans, parts of the existing hotel and leisure centre are to be demolished while what remains is to undergo extensive refurbishment. In their application to Waterford City Council, submitted last December, Viewforth Ltd. had argued that the current Ard Ri hotel, which was built in the late 1960s, was “dated” and “tired” and greatly needed improvement
angry_fox wrote: When one of the Mcniff brothers came to tell the staff the news he had a "minder" with him Trotter the best place to go would the be Waterford Crystal Gym and pool, place aint to bad and the equipement is good, can get a bit packed sometimes. Do the Woodlands have a leisure center?
