THE official opening of Thanet's latest hotel at the Prospect Inn site at Minster is on Thursday, January 24.

The £5.36million 105-bedroomed Holiday Inn Express hotel took 40 weeks to construct on the busy road linking Ramsgate to the Thanet Way.

The building is linked to the original frontage of the former pub and restaurant that was designed by English architect Oliver Hill in the International Cunard Style and built as a roadside inn in 1939.

All the rooms which are en suite with shower rooms and air conditioning, tea/coffee making machines, and flat screen plasma television.

The hotel also has a bar, lounge and a restaurant serving evening meals, two meeting rooms and wireless broadband throughout.