Best Holdings Limited and Starwood Asia Pacific Hotels & Resorts Pte Ltd recently signed an agreement to open another hotel in Bangladesh. 62km from Dhaka city, this new project of Best Holdings to be managed by Starwood Asia Pacific, Le Méridien Resort & Spa Bhaluka, is the second hotel of the globally acclaimed brand Le Méridien to be initiated in Bangladesh. Hasan Ahmad, president of Best Holdings Limited and Dilip Puri, managing director India and regional vice president South Asia of Starwood Hotels & Resorts India Pte Ltd exchanged documents to this effect during a private ceremony at Le Méridien Dhaka. Amin Ahmad, chairman of Best Holdings Limited and Ashwani Nayar, general manager of Le Méridien Dhaka were present as well.
“Domestic tourism has increased exponentially over recent years, leading to the mushrooming of various urban resorts. It is a natural progression of the busy lives we all lead, especially in the city, where a quick getaway affords us reprieve over weekends or short holidays. The location for Le Méridien Resort & Spa Bhaluka is less than one and half-hours’ journey from Dhaka,” explains Hasan Ahmad, president of Best Holdings Limited. “It will be the first international luxury brand resort of its kind in such close proximity to the capital with over 200 guestrooms, including suites and villas, and a great many dining and recreational facilities. We hold high hopes that it will become a place for not only family vacations but also corporate retreats and destination weddings.”
Apart from the usual resort recreation facilities such as all day dining and specialty restaurants, meeting and banqueting, fitness centre and swimming pool, Le Méridien Resort & Spa Bhaluka will also include retail strips for shopping, Cineplex for movies, tennis courts, golf practicing courses and even equestrian range and tracks as well as an artificial sand beach by a lake where there will be water light and sound shows in the evenings. The spa and wellness centre planned for the resort is planned to be in a class of its own in a serene lakeside spot and will receive additional focus of the design team and both the owning and managing organisations believe will drive a large percentage of the footfall when the hotel comes into operation.
Le Méridien Resort & Spa Bhaluka is expected to be opened by January 2019.
