The Pig
While there were new moves within the budget hotel sector, there were also some positive updates to the boutique hotel sector. Robin Hutson, co-founder of Hotel du Vin and chairman of Lime Wood Group, pushed on with the expansion of his boutique hotel brand The Pig after claiming in 2012 that 'the time was right for independents'.
Following the opening of The Pig in the New Forest and The Pig in the Wall in Southampton, the company's owner Home Grown Hotels announced in May it had bought former Von Essen property Hunstrete House with plans to turn it into The Pig near Bath by the end of the year (now early 2014). Next year we can also expect the opening of The Pig on the Beach in Dorset.