Centara expands in Thailand

BANGKOK  Centara Hotels & Resort’s latest venture is a brand-new property that will be built in Sriracha, Chonburi province.
The Centara Sonrisa Residence and Suites Sriracha, is being developed by Smile Condo (2011) Co. Ltd to reflect a family-friendly four-star lifestyle.
The hotel is now in the design phase and the Centara Group expects that it will open on schedule in the first quarter of 2017.
inside no 6Centara Hotels & Resorts CEO, Thirayuth Chirathivat, said the addition of a new property close to both Bangkok and Pattaya, makes strategic sense.
The new hotel will have 150 rooms, approximately 32 square metres in size. It will also have a full-service restaurant, fitness centre, generous swimming pool and outdoor leisure area, children’s facilities, and an ‘E-Room’ business centre along with two meeting rooms suitable for 30 to 50 people.
Centara’s senior vice president sales and marketing, Chris Bailey, said that he was confident that the hotel would be successful, “as we have a clear target market, which fits well with the facilities and location”.
The overall investment figure, encompassing both land and construction costs, will be approximately THB3.5 million per room.
Centara Hotels & Resorts is Thailand’s leading operator of hotels, with 48 deluxe and first-class properties covering all the major tourist destinations in the Kingdom.

sourced:ttrweekly.com