Ethiopias third five-star hotel to open next month

Sporting a swimming, gym and sauna facilities at its top tenth floor, a newly- built resort destined to become the country’s third five-star hotel will open its door for service in the presence of ministers, high government officials, ambassadors, and invited guests it was learnt.

Erected at a booming construction site around Kasanchise area off the Marshal Tito Avenue, the hotel, Inter Continental, has 152 rooms and suites while the services it will render and the facilities it is equipped with will entitle it a five-star rate, an official serving at Ministry of Culture and Tourism told The Reporter anonymously because the hotel is yet in the process of securing the title.

High government officials, including Culture and Tourism Minister Ambassador Mohamud Dirir, have visited to hotel upon invitation.

Originally projected to cost slightly over 200 million birr, the construction and furnishing of the hotel took an investment outlay of over 360 million birr after a two-and-a-half year time the project took to be completed, according to reliable sources.

Following its opening up for service sometime next month, the hotel will embark upon an expansion project at a nearby site where the proprietor, Simachew Kebede, secured 3,700 sq.m. of land.

Currently there are only two five-star hotels in the country, Sheraton Addis and Addis Ababa Hilton, while others in the pipeline and those whose construction has yet commence are expected to raise the number in the coming future.

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