Accor opens First Novotel in Jakarta

Accor has opened the Novotel Mangga Dua, the first Novotel hotel in Jakarta.

The 270-room hotel is located in Jakarta’s prominent Mangga Dua district long known for its trading, shipping and import-export related industries. In recent years the neighborhood has transformed into a popular shopping and entertainment area, attracting more young professionals and consumers to Mangga Dua.

Novotel Mangga Dua is also connected to the sprawling Mangga Dua Square development that features an exhibition centre and shopping mall complex with numerous stores and restaurants.

The hotel will offer guests hotel-wide WiFi coverage in all rooms and public areas, a business centre, 800sqm ballroom, six adjacent meeting rooms for between 40 to 60 people each, Novotel’s signature concept restaurant ‘The Square, a Fun Pub, swimming pool, fitness centre and spa.

Novotel Mangga Dua incorporates the latest Novotel design features, including the BIZ Executive Floor and BIZ Lounge concepts.

Director of Operations - Indonesia, Gerard Guillouet, said Novotel Mangga Dua provides Accor with a strategic presence in Jakarta, one of Asia’s largest and most important commercial capital cities. “The hotel is in one of Jakarta’s oldest business districts that in recent years has become an exciting nightlife and shopping quarter, making it attractive to a wider clientele.”

With the addition of Novotel Mangga Dua, Accor now operates 31 hotels and serviced apartments in key resort and business destinations around Indonesia. These include 11 Novotel hotels, nine Ibis hotels, seven Mercure hotels and residences, two Sofitel hotels and two associated properties. Three additional hotels are under development and scheduled to open in 2005.

Novotel Mangga Dua is offering a promotional rate of US$41++ a night for double occupancy in a Superior Room inclusive of breakfast, use of the hotel fitness centre and 10 % off laundry, phone charges and meals at The Square Restaurant until 31 August 2005.

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