Chelsea Hotel, Toronto


The Chelsea Hotel, Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest hotel in Canada. Located at 33 Gerrard Street West, it contains 1,590 guest rooms and suites on 26 floors, with 5 basements and 18 elevators. It originally received funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to be built as a student housing cooperative and then was planned as a residential condominium building by Toronto architectural firm Crang and Boake, but it opened as a hotel on October 15, 1975. The 26 floor, original single-tower structure was purchased in 1996 by Great Eagle Holdings of Hong Kong. The hotel was part of the Delta Hotels chain from its opening until July 2013.

Location

The Chelsea Hotel is located within the Downtown Yonge area of downtown Toronto. It is situated between the College and Dundas TTC subway stations on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line.

Ownership and management

On December 19, 2012, hotel owner Great Eagle Holdings announced that it would end its management agreement with Delta Hotels on July 1, 2013, and place the property under the control of its own subsidiary, Langham Hospitality Group. It was reported that Great Eagle Holdings would not commit to renovations that Delta sought to upgrade the facility.
The hotel changed its name from the Delta Chelsea to the Eaton Chelsea on July 1, 2013. Ken Greene, president and CEO of Delta Hotels, stated that "It was a tough decision to part ways", adding, "This is symbolic of the repositioning that Delta is going through. It definitely shows that we are very serious about becoming the leading four-star brand." Delta had announced that it was building a new flagship hotel in Toronto's South Core district as part of a development led by its parent company at the time, the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.
The Eaton Hotels chain also has hotels in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Although the Toronto hotel has a marketing partnership with the nearby Toronto Eaton Centre, it has no corporate relationship to the mall, nor does the hotel chain have any historical connection to the mall's namesake, Timothy Eaton, or the defunct Eaton's department store chain that he had founded.
In early 2015, the hotel rebranded again as the Chelsea Hotel, while remaining under the control of the Langham Hospitality Group and retaining most other aspects of the Eaton Hotels branding. The reasons for this latest rebranding have not been publicized.

Amenities

In addition to the 1,590 guest rooms and suites, the Chelsea Hotel also has several restaurants, meeting areas, conference rooms, an underground parking garage, a KidZone, and 2 indoor swimming pools, one of which has Toronto's only downtown, indoor water slide. A portion of the slide is visible over the Walton Street entrance.