April 2010 No. 317 22 (Continued from p. 18) scheduled to begin in a few months on upgrading rooms, by replacing carpeting, renovating the bathrooms and making other improvements. Until now, guests at the Herods Palace were entitled to use the Herods Vitalis gym. Now however the Palace is getting a workout room of its own, which should be operational in two to three months. Also, the hotel has started to revive its “Spirit of the Palace” activities and processionals, which lent a sense of theme to the property when it first opened. In addition, shows are to be staged in the hotel’s Officers Club every evening. Room renovations are also being planned, as are plans to upgrade the hotel’s “Hamitbach” (Hebrew for “The Kitchen”) restaurant fronting the seaside promenade with a sushi area and a new menu. Developments Elsewhere Work has been completed on renovating all the rooms of the Leonardo Plaza Eilat (the former Sheraton Eilat) that were in need of refurbishment and now the hotel is planning to introduce a “hotel within a hotel” concept encompassing 80 or so rooms complemented by an executive and private swimming pool entrance. The dining room offerings are also in line for upgrading, similar to the food offered at Fattal’s Le Méridien Eilat property. The hotel will feature a new entertainment program as well, with cabaret shows, singing waiters, etc. For the benefit of its younger guests the Fattal Magic Sunshine Club now features a mini amusement park, which opened in March in the area where its climbing wall is located. Among the offerings are a trampoline, monkey bars, bumper cars, and other apparatuses. “We’ll soon be expanding this facility and adding something quite large,” Aloni reveals. This coming summer all Fattal guests in the chain’s Eilat hotels will be to a show on the beach of the Club Med Eilat that features well-known Israeli singers, musicians and comedians. “We held our first show early in April and it attracted an audience of about 3500. We’ll be offering these types of shows once in a while until the summer; then, in July and August, they’ll be on two evenings a week.” Magic Palace Update “The entire lobby area of our hotel was upgraded last year at a cost of about NIS 2.5 million, with new furnishings, lighting, a new European-style skylight lobby bar and a two-sided bar 10 meters long, reports Shlomi Koren, general manager of the Fattal Chain’s Magic Palace Hotel, Eilat. Improvements so far this year have been the installation of LCD tvs in all the rooms of the hotel and new carpeting in about half of its rooms. This coming winter, plans call for redesigning and rebranding the hotel dining room. Hilton Queen of Sheba News A number of months ago the Queen of Sheba Hilton Eilat inaugurated its new “Chicago” meat restaurant in space occupied previously by “Buffalo,” a former in-house restaurant that also specialized in meat dishes. “The difference is that Chicago is less of a fine dining experience than Buffalo was,” explains the hotel’s Projects, Image & PR Manager Elinor Chayoun. “We were looking to introduce more family-style dining with space for about 150-160 covers, individual booths and touch screens that offer games as well as our menu in English and Hebrew - and with French and Russian to follow - along with a meat storage room in front of guests’ eyes, a new bar located in the center and two private dining rooms.” Suites at the Hilton Queen of Sheba The Hilton Queen of Sheba Eilat has 21 suites, and in a project that began last September, 13 of them have been renovated, with the remainder scheduled for completion by this coming fall. Concurrent with this work, the carpeting in all the corridors of the hotel has been replaced as part of a program to replace all the carpeting in the hotel, and all hotel rooms now feature LCD tv monitors and a clock radio that comes with an MP3 port. All the suites have been outfitted with espresso machines. Changes have also been carried out in the main lobby, which has been equipped with new tables and carpeting, while chairs and couches have been reupholstered.
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