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Newmark Hotels Shuns Tough Times With A R5 Million Upgrade
NEWMARK HOTELS (PTY) LTD has announced a R5 million upgrade and refurbishment program of the renowned V&A Hotel located in the world-famous V&A Waterfront. To be completed during South Africa’s upcoming 2009 winter season, the interior décor improvements include upgrading all rooms on the first and second floor, converting the currently larger double rooms into executive and junior suites and also re-decorating the corridors on both floors. No building construction is necessary during this upgrade phase and therefore noise levels and inconvenience to guests will be at a minimum.
Six (6) new executive suites and seventeen (17) junior suites will now be on offer on both the first and second floors of the hotel. All the executive suites will offer a dining area, perfect for in-room dining and small meetings of up to six (6) persons, while the junior suites have a dedicated 4-seater lounge area which can seamlessly be converted into a romantic dining space. Flat-screen televisions are also data compatible and are able to connect to a laptop for data projection and can swivel to face the seating areas.
Celebrated South African interior designer Francois du Plessis has been commissioned to manage the project. Du Plessis is responsible for the striking décor recently installed at the new Dock House Boutique Hotel & Spa also located in the V&A Waterfront as well as the ever-popular Salt Restaurant & Bar in Bantry Bay.
The upgrade programme will commence in early May 2009 and the estimated time of completion is end of August 2009.
While current economic conditions are not favourable for the tourism and hospitality sectors, the upgrades and refurbishment of the V&A Hotel is believed to be a very necessary to reinvest in this grand and historic Waterfront property. “Most visitors to the V&A Hotel will be surprised to learn that we are currently graded as a four-star hotel, but we have undertaken to obtain our fifth-star during the next twelve months and we believe that the renovations and refurbishments as well as the addition of the executive and junior suites will assist us in our campaign for achieving our five-star rating.” comments Andy Nold, Operations Director of Newmark Hotels.
