No.317

Each bedroom is fully equipped, with wc, shower, clothes closet and/or
dresser and 37” LCD tv. The salon and fully-equipped open kitchen area
features two dining tables - one seating eight and one seating six - 42” tv,
DVD player and a variety of seating areas. The hotel is now in the process of
renovating the suite are says that that it will be available by September.
Dan Eilat Dining Room
As reported in EMTT #313, new furniture has been installed in the dining
room of the Dan Eilat. This development was part of the first phase of a
three-stage program to renovate the facility, work on which is scheduled to
be completed by this coming winter, reports outgoing General Manager Dani
Schneider. The outlet is being redesigned, new buffets are being installed
and new a la minute stations added. The hotel will also install an ice cream
machine in the dining room, enabling guests to have their ice cream custom
made in the flavors they prefer, from a variety of ingredients that will be on
display.
Renovations
Extensive renovations to the rooms and public areas of the Dan Eilat are
being planned for 2011-12, Schneider reveals. Recently, the hotel installed
LCD tvs in all its rooms, with the size of the screen in each, dependent on
room category.
Dan Panorama Eilat Renovations
In 2009, the Dan Panorama Eilat renovated 57 “Executive” rooms, along
with 10 terrace rooms and four suites, reports outgoing General Manager
Lior Mucznik. New carpeting, curtains, bed covers, LCD screens,
decorative pillows and lights for the rooms’ make-up tables were among the
improvements. This coming September, at a cost of about NIS 1.5 million
(more than $400,000), an additional 108 rooms in the hotel will receive
the same treatment. “This will leave us with 88 rooms to be refurbished,”
Mucznik remarks. “Although they won’t be totally upgraded until the
following winter, we will be changing the carpeting in them this coming
September.”
The Dan Panorama Eilat will also be investing about NIS 1 million during
the first quarter of 2011 to improve the area around its swimming pool.
VIP Lounge
The Dan Panorama Eilat has just completed upgrading the offerings in its
VIP Lounge. A second Internet station for use free of charge by lounge
guests has been installed, check-in and check-out services are now
available in the lounge for guests that have booked executive rooms
or those in a higher
category and the buffet
has been upgraded and offers
breakfasts, hot light lunches and
evening sweets.
Prima Music
Recording Studio
The Prima Music Eilat has been equipped
with a recording studio, and young guests
participating in the hotel’s “A Star is
Born” competition, which takes place
twice weekly in summer and also at other
designated periods during the year, can
train free of charge with a voice coach and/
or musical instrument teacher at the hotel
and participate in the contest. First prize
each time is a single recorded by the winner
in the hotel studio, for him or her to take
home as a souvenir.
Additional Changes
Recently, the Prima Music introduced Wing
key cards for all its room doors. For the
convenience of its observant Jewish guests,
who do not use electricity on the Jewish
Sabbath and holidays, the doors may still be
opened or closed with regular keys. Earlier,
all the rooms had been equipped with mini
safes. Other hotel improvements include
new corridor carpeting, LCD tv in some of
the rooms, new pool furniture, MP3s and
MP4s for guests’ use and breakfast until
12 pm, with guests permitted to enter the
dining room any number of times while
breakfast is being served.
Nova Improvements
Renovations were completed recently on
the dining room of the Nova Hotel, Eilat, a
member of the Atlas Hotel Chain, explains
hotel General Manager Ronen Haskel, “We
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