ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE AT MELIÁ BENOA

Leading European hotel chain Sol Meliá has announced the rebranding of Meliá Benoa in Bali, into an All Inclusive Resort. With this change, guests to the property will be able to enjoy a choice of two options - the Blue and Gold options.

BLUE OPTION

The Blue All-Inclusive option includes accommodation in an oversized 50 square metre room, daily meals from a choice of Meliá Benoa's three restaurants including breakfast, lunch and dinner, and special daily poolside snacks, a free-flow of juices, mineral water, soft-drinks, and local brand beer and liquor. Guests will also be entitled to free use of the non-motorised watersports and equipment including sailing, wind surfing, canoeing, and snorkelling. Guests will also enjoy other sporting facilities including free use of the gym, and squash, table tennis, billiards, archery, and darts facilities. Guests would also enjoy nightly evening entertainment including a Balinese cultural show, and a Broadway-style extravaganza.

GOLD OPTION

In addition to the benefits offered in the Blue option, guests who opt for Gold can enjoy deluxe room accommodation, 24-hour room service, imported spirits, beers and wines and free access to the in-room minibar. Guests will also have access to a reserved beach chair, and daily free laundry services.

The Blue option is offered at a rate of US$100.00 nett per person per night based on twin sharing, and the Gold option is offered at a rate of US$140.00 nett per person per night based on twin sharing. A surcharge applies for peak season of US$30.00 nett per person per night from 22nd December 2000 through 6th January 2001.

Meliá Benoa is located on the Northern tip of Nusa Dua on the beach of Tanjung Benoa, Bali's newest resort area fast becoming popular as a haven for watersports enthusiasts. The hotel is located a mere 15 minutes by car from the Ngurah Rai International Airport, and 45 minutes from Denpasar City.

The hotel's resort style accommodation includes 90 deluxe rooms, 32 junior suites and 6 grand suites. Among its facilities are the Spa at Meliá Benoa, a free form swimming pool with swim up bar, air-conditioned squash court, fitness centre with gymnasium, and sauna. Meliá Benoa extensive watersports facilities include snorkelling, scuba diving, windsurfing, parasailing, and jet skiing. The hotel also boasts of three restaurants, including the Dwarawati restaurant featuring local and international favourites, Amarta Italian restaurant and the Menaga seafood restaurant, and two bars. Meliá Benoa is situated 1.5 kilometres away from shops, and a 25 minute car ride from Kuta's shopping area.

Sol Meliá, Europe's leading hotel group and the ninth largest hotel company in the world, has a portfolio of more than 330 city and resort hotels in 30 countries under the brand names of Meliá, Sol and Paradisus hotels. The newest additions to the Group include 10 new properties in Paris, the Meliá Roma Aurelia (in Rome), Meliá Mexico Reforma (in Mexico DF) and Meliá White House (in London). Its properties in Asia include Gran Meliá Jakarta, Meliá Bali (incorporating The Garden Villas), Meliá Benoa (Bali), Sol Lovina (Bali), Meliá Purosani (Yogyakarta), Meliá Panorama (Batam), and Sol Elite Marbella (Anyer) in Indonesia; Meliá Hanoi in Vietnam; Meliá Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia; Meliá Hua Hin and Sol Twin Towers (Bangkok) in Thailand. Sol Meliá has signed contracts to take-over and manage a further 80 hotels by the year 2002.