Ambassador hotel to be ready by May 2011

Accra, March 31, GNA - Management of the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra has announced that the facility would be ready for use by May 15, this year to help contribute its quota to the hospitality industry in the country.

Mr Stuart Chase, General Manager of the hotel, made the announcement on Wednesday when Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Tourism, paid a day's working visit to the hotel to assess the progress of work on the facility.

Mr Chase said, 93Two of our accommodation floors would

be ready for use and opened by May 15, this year while minor

works would be going on and I am sure by July this year, all

works would be completed."

The Movenpick Ambassador Hotel is a five star hotel and

has 260 rooms including 61 executive club rooms, 24 hour

club lounge, 15 junior suites and 320 square metre presidential

suites and other facilities of international standard. The Hotel located in the central business district of Accra,

is a joint venture between the Government of Ghana and the

Saudi prince and businessman, Al Waleed Bin Talal Wahab

Abdul Aziz Alsaud. Mr Chase said over 100-million dollars had been used to

execute the project which employed more than 700 Ghanaians

during the construction phase and would employ more upon

completion. The project is in three phases; phase one consist of 10

secured apartments, and is being built with new and bigger

state-of-the-art plans and architecture that will put it in a five-

star deluxe category globally. Ms Dansua expressed gratitude about the progress of work

and said the hotel would help boost the tourism industry when

opened. She said the tourism ministry would give the necessary

support to hotel management and that tourists who complain of

inadequate high standard hotel accommodation would have

nothing to complain about. The Ambassador Hotel was built and donated to Ghana by

the United Kingdom as an Independence Day gift but it

degenerated over the year hence the decision of the state to

diversify it.