Sirak Samvelovich, we congratulate you on a successful acquisition, a profitable investment and a big step forward! I would like to inform all your readers with pleasure that the Al Khalidiah group of companies is successfully expanding and increasing its scope of activities. And one of the most striking events, both for us and for our partners, is the fact that another hotel has appeared in our asset.
This is a new hotel on the Sharjah coast, which is assigned a class of 5 *, and this hotel is ours! Al Khalidiah has already proven its stability, it is moving forward, developing and expanding its staff. We are ready to receive a resume from everyone who wants to take various vacant positions in our new hotel. Guy Shidiak, who worked for many years at similar posts in the Radisson Blu hotel system, was appointed general manager. I hope that we will work well together and organize the hotel’s life at an appropriate level. I will deal with the foreign policy of the hotel on my own, together with my team of like-minded people.
The hotel is called Khalidiah Beach Resort & SPA. This requires certain additional conditions for servicing holidaymakers. I think that the Spa-center in our hotel will be the best in Sharjah. Today, none of the Sharjah hotels have such a Spa. We have prepared separate salons for men and women, which are equipped with Moroccan baths, steam rooms, saunas, beauty salons, massage rooms. The Women's Spa has a unique complex of thermal pools.
On the coastal side of the hotel there is a pool with waterfalls, are you talking about it?
This is a beach service. And inside the Spa complex there are three more pools, the temperature regime of water in which will vary for the adoption of thermal procedures.
In Sharjah, family vacations are very popular. What interesting things will families with children find for themselves in the new hotel?
Kids club, Internet cafe, healthy lifestyle, active beach holidays, entertainment from animators - we will keep our brand of a five-star hotel. Therefore, I think that children will not be bored for either children or adults.
What cuisine will be presented in the restaurants of the new hotel?
Currently we are considering three options: the first is a Russian restaurant (with Russian traditional cuisine, along with which Ukrainian and Armenian national dishes will be prepared there); the second option is Italian and the third is a Chinese restaurant. Necessarily in the restaurants of the hotel it will be possible to try the local national cuisine.
The new hotel looks compact and comfortable, how many guest rooms do it have?
A total of 105 rooms, including 2 royal suites, which are located on the top floor in the right and left wing. Then there are 12 one-bedroom suites, which will be named differently, and everything else is standard rooms with city or sea views.
Will the rooms in your hotel be sold to other travel agencies?
Required. We will preliminarily meet with large tour operators working in all markets and discuss our cooperation. We invite our local partners, colleagues, representatives of travel agencies and tour operators who want to work with us to negotiate.
Will the hotel open for the new tourist season?
We plan to open a hotel in July-August 2010. The necessary equipment, all appliances, furniture, household appliances have already been purchased, everything is ready for opening. It remains to complete the improvement of the beach area and some finishing work in the Spa-salons. We are in a hurry to complete all preparations for the start of promotional study tours in the UAE to our partners.
Well, we wish you a speedy completion of construction and finishing work and a successful start of hotel activities!
