TravTalk Middle East Online Magazine
With a unique combination of traditional Arabic design and modern architecture, Royal Continental Hotel’s debut in Deira, Dubai, promises a technologically-advanced experience through innovative in-room facilities.
TT Bureau
Strategically located minutes from Dubai International Airport, the hotel aims to target business travellers and tourists alike. The property houses 168 rooms and suites with modern leisure facilities and multi-cuisine dining options spread over 11 floors. It offers a relaxing stay to its guests that perfectly suits everyone’s needs, and offers a variety of plush deluxe rooms, superior rooms with extra space for single guests or families, and a sophisticated luxury of a presidential suite to choose from.
Royal Continental Hotel features extensive dining options from the extensive in-room dining menu, or one of the two outlets, Oasis, offering multi-cuisine buffets for breakfast, lunch and dinner and All The Perks Café, suitable for business needs.
Sultan Al Menhali, CEO, Royal Continental Hotel, said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of our first hotel in the Middle East. Aligning ourselves with His Highness’ vision of focusing on family, Royal Continental Hotel is Sharia compliant and designed keeping in mind the importance of families spending leisure time together. Accelerated towards Dubai’s vision for 2020 and with our expansion plans we are positively looking forward to contribute to the key objective of attracting 20 million visitors per year by 2020 and position Dubai as the ‘first choice’ for the international leisure and business traveller.”
Wajeed Bagwan, General Manager, Royal Continental Hotel, said, “Royal Continental Hotel is introduced to the Middle East region with an aim to cater to the growing numbers of guests looking at the region for business and holiday needs offering them with a relaxed contemporary surrounding, perfectly suited to both a short city break or an extended vacation. We are enthusiastically looking forward to our regional growth in the coming years. This is the soft opening of the first property and there will be two more coming up; one near Dubai water canal and the other in Jeddah but we will keep you updated soon. Most of the rooms are with facility to interconnect targeting the families. The investment was approximately AED120 million expecting Y-oY of 10 per cent. We have a special introductory rate starting from AED350 to 700. We are looking at India and China markets with others like KSA, Vietnam, Europe etc.”
