Major hotel group expands in Kenya
THE Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group plans to open four more hotels in
Kenya in the next three years. Park Inn and Residence hotels are
under construction in Nairobi and are expected to be open by the
end of April and December respectively.
Initially, Park Inn was supposed to open in the fourth quarter of
2013, but the date was postponed due to construction delays.
Carlson Rezidor plans to add two more hotels, one in Mombasa and
the other in Nairobi.
Bookings open for new Okavango camp
BOOKINGS for Natural Selection’s new Sable Alley camp, in
Botswana’s Okavango Delta, are open. The camp is in the Khwai
Private Reserve, a 200 000-hectare concession along the Khwai
and Sable Alley rivers. Each of the 12 tents is almost 60 square
metres in size and activities include game drives, night drives,
mokoro and boat trips and walks.
Renaissance Hotels enters Nigeria
RENAISSANCE Hotels has opened the Renaissance Lagos Ikeja
Hotel, the group’s first property in sub-Saharan Africa. The hotel is in
Lagos’s city centre and 5km from Murtala Muhammed International
Airport. There are 155 guest rooms and 17 loft suites, all equipped
with first-class facilities, spacious seating areas and large LED
TVs with 70-plus channels. For business travellers, there are eight
meeting rooms that can be adapted to cater for a six-person board
meeting or a banquet-style event with up to 280 guests. A bar and
flexible breakout areas complement the meeting areas. Facilities
include an outdoor pool overlooking the city and a 24-hour gym.
The hotel is close to attractions such as the National Railway
Corporation Museum, Africa Shrine and Kalakuta Museum.
