The heritage of the Jurys Group can be traced back to at least 1839, when William Jury opened his hotel in
Dublin at
College Green catering to the expanding commercial sector. The hotel operated until the 1970s when it was demolished and replaced with offices. The first Doyle Hotel, The Montrose, was built in
Stillorgan, Dublin, in 1964 by
PV Doyle. 1993 saw the introduction of the Jurys Inns brand with the opening of the
Galway and Christchurch (Dublin) Inns in April and May, respectively. The chain opened its first hotel in
Northern Ireland, in
Belfast, in April 1997. It expanded into
Great Britain with a hotel in
London in May 1998. The Jurys Hotel Group acquired the Doyle portfolio of Dublin, London, and Washington, DC0, in 1999, and the newly enlarged organisation became known as Jurys Doyle Hotel Group Ltd. Further expansion came in 2001 with the acquisition of two properties owned by Chamberlain Hotels Limited. The group was then acquired by Quinlan Private in a €1.165 billion takeover in 2008, while the
Oman Investment Fund invested €200 million in a 50% stake. In August 2009, the group opened its first hotel on the European mainland—in
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. In 2014, three of the company's London hotels (Islington, Chelsea, and
Heathrow Airport) were brought under the
Hilton Worldwide chain through a franchise agreement and rebranded accordingly—the former two becoming
DoubleTree by Hilton hotels and the latter a
Hilton Garden Inn. Throughout 2015, Jurys Inn added 9 hotels that previously operated under the
Thistle Hotels and
The Hotel Collection brands: Jurys Inn Cheltenham, Jurys Inn Cardiff, Jurys Inn East Midlands Airport, Jurys Inn Oxford, Jurys Inn Middlesbrough, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Jurys Inn Aberdeen Airport, and Jurys Inn Inverness. Swedish hotel company Pandox and Israeli group Fattal acquired Fattal Hotels from US private equity firm
Lone Star in December 2017 for £800 million (€908 million). This portfolio of 37 hotels includes the entire Jurys Inn portfolio of 36 hotels, along with one hotel at London's Heathrow airport, currently trading as a Hilton Garden Inn. In April 2022, the Fattal Hotel Group announced that the Jurys Inn branding would be retired. The group already operates 145 Leonardo-branded hotels worldwide. == Locations ==