Vol. XXI, No. 238 [ BusinessWorld Online ]
Friday, July 4, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
THE ALLIANCE Global Group, Inc. is building the country’s first all-suites hotel worth P3.8 billion at its residential project in Taguig City to take advantage of a surge in tourist arrivals with the opening of Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
The group’s tourism arm, Travellers International Hotel Group, Inc., will build Maxim’s Hotel together with Star Cruises Ltd., which is also Alliance Global’s partner for its stake in Pagcor’s Manila Bay Tourism City project.
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"Maxim’s Hotel, the country’s first all-suites luxury hotel, will be rushed to give these tourists a memorable and positive business experience here in our country," Alliance Global Chairman Andrew Tan said in a statement yesterday.
Alliance Global will build Maxim’s Hotel in Newport City across the NAIA Terminal 3.
Maxim’s Hotel is a luxury hotel brand of the Genting Group, a sister company of Hong Kong-listed Star Cruises Ltd.
Alliance Global is tapping the expertise of Gettys Chicago to design the interiors of Maxim’s Hotel suites.
Gettys has completed interiors for more than 500 luxury hotel and five-star resort projects in the Americas and the Carribean region, including The Ritz-Carlton Chicago and the Hilton Grand Vacation Club in Hawaii.
Gettys Chicago is also the appointed interior designer of the grand lobby of Megaworld’s One Central residential condominium project in Makati City.
Maxim’s Hotel in Newport City will feature 158 king and junior suites, about a dozen deluxe suites and one presidential suite from the fourth to eighth floors.
A personal butler will serve all the suites, which start at a floor area of about 50 square meters for the king suite and a spacious 100 to 150 square meters for the junior suites.
Three private villa residences with individual pools are planned for the fourth floor. The same floor will host a pool for the exclusive use of hotel guests.
The hotel will be built on a one-hectare lot beside a lagoon, near the entrance to Newport City in Villamor Airbase. It will have a gross floor area of more than 20,000 square meters.
The lower floors of the hotel will be allocated to the Newport Entertainment and Commercial Center.
The mall will feature signature brands on the ground floor, a performance stage on the second level and four cinemas on the third floor.
Newport City is a 25-hectare residential, commercial and office development of Alliance Global’s property arm, Megaworld Corp.
At full development, the project will feature residential condominiums, shopping malls, restaurant strips and business process outsourcing (BPO) office condominiums.
