The hotel, in Gervis Road, will undergo a £2million refurbishment, with the aim of opening for Easter. Nq2 Hospitality Limited will operate the hotel on behalf of the new venture. It comes less than 12 months after the Queens Hotel was taken over my Nq2 and became the Mercure Bournemouth Queens Hotel & Spa and joined the Accor group. Director Toby Barnes-Taylor MBE said: “ibis and Mercure work very well together and they loved what they saw (at the Mercure). “We went through it and the commercial side was the longest aspect but it was good to get it signed on Christmas Eve.