No.317

April 2010 No. 317
full audio-visual equipment, a spokesperson
for Manta mentions. Along with serving as
a dive center, the facility features nine fourbedded
rooms for the exclusive use of divers
enrolled in Manta courses during their stay,
which are sold exclusively by the club.
Aside from resulting in a larger and newlyreconfigured
facility, the upgrading of the
Manta Dive Club has meant more room for
- and better access to - more equipment, as
well as new toilets, lockers, showers and a
sauna. “There is excellent synergy between
the hotel and the club,” Ross observes.
“Divers accommodated in the Manta rooms
take their breakfasts in the hotel dining
room; our hotel pool serves as a venue for
some course demonstrations, and our young
guests over the age of six that know how
to swim can take advantage of 90-minute
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introduction to diving sessions in the pool by the Manta instructional staff
and receive a certificate noting their participation.”
About two years ago, the Manta Dive Club received the highest rating by the
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), which recognized it
as a Career Diving Center.
Elsewhere at Isrotel in Eilat
Elsewhere in the chain’s Eilat properties, a new “Neviot” poolside grill
restaurant for lunchtime meals is being added at the Lagoona Hotel, while
at the Royal Garden Hotel the dining room is being rebuilt and expanded
to seat about 300 guests and it will feature an open kitchen. “Once this is
finished, the hotel will be in a position to accommodate more groups and h/b
guests,” relates Lior Raviv.
Isrotel’s Agamim Hotel features about 280 rooms, including eight units
situated on water and with direct descent to it. A model room has been
prepared already and these eight rooms will all be refurbished and
upgraded starting later this year, with work possibly leading into 2011.
Then, work on the remaining rooms of the hotel is scheduled to
begin.