Addis Ababa
Sporting a swimming pool at its top tenth floor, the first part of a new 400 million birr five-star hotel - Intercontinental Addis - will open its door for services before the New Ethiopian Millennium sets in, Project Manager Gudeta Regasa disclosed to The Daily Monitor.
The first phase of the hotel project, whose construction commenced ten months earlier at a 2346 square meters plot of land located around Kasanchese, in Kirkose sub-city, Kebele 17, will be completed in few months' time if all goes according to plan, Gudeta said.
Projected to consume 200 million birr, the hotel's first phase project will be a ten-story high building, which will have 151 rooms and suites, five restaurants, discotheque, gyms, sauna & steam baths, and Jacuzzis, with all the facilities meeting an international five-star hotel category standards, according to the Manager.
Compared to existing hotels in the country, Intercontinental Addis will, according to the Project Manager, entertain unique features which include transparent elevators, a tenth-floor swimming pool with a bar that serves customers while inside the pool, rooms and suites all operating with electronic-locking solution cards.
Presently, there are only two five-star hotels in the country, namely Sheraton Addis and Addis Ababa Hilton.
The new hotel, destined to be the third five-star resort in the country, is being erected and owned by J.H. Simex plc, a private local company active in export/import trade.
Upon completion of the first phase of the project, the hotel will start rendering services, while its second phase, which is also projected to cost 200 million birr, will commence, according to Company Proprietor Simachew Kebede.
2006 The Daily Monitor
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