Mulia Hotel ready for the Games: PR Manager<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Hotel Mulia Senayan rejected accusations
\nyesterday that it was not ready for the SEA Games after it turned
\naway foreign athletes on Friday who thought they were staying
\nthere.<\/p>\n
The hotel's public relations manager, Ira Maya Sopha, said:
\n"We are ready for the Games. More than 550 rooms have already
\nbeen completed and more will be ready by the time all the
\nathletes and officials arrive."<\/p>\n
She said the hotel was due to accommodate about 1,700 people,
\nwith three people to a room, during the biennial competition
\nwhich is being held in Jakarta from Oct. 11 to Oct. 19.<\/p>\n
Laotian and Thai soccer players were not given rooms Friday
\nbecause they were not on the list given to the hotel by the SEA
\nGames Organizing Committee (OC), Ira Maya said. The athletes
\neventually ended up staying at Hotel Horizon in Ancol.<\/p>\n
"We only received the list of people who are staying at the
\nhotel from the OC yesterday afternoon. There were no Laotian
\nathletes on the list at all.<\/p>\n
"We are accommodating athletes from Myanmar, Thailand,
\nMalaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Moreover we have only
\nagreed to do so from today until October 21."<\/p>\n
Despite this agreement, she said, the hotel did give rooms to
\nMyanmar athletes who arrived Friday, even though it was a day
\nearly.<\/p>\n
The 40-story, 1,008-room hotel on Jl. Asia Afrika is owned by
\nthe Bimantara Group, which is controlled by President Soeharto's
\nsecond son Bambang Trihatmodjo. It has been built in less than
\nnine months with up to 6,500 people working on the site daily.<\/p>\n
Not all the facilities, such as some of the seven restaurants,
\nthe swimming pool and tennis courts, are ready. But Ira Maya said
\nthe athletes and officials would be properly looked after.<\/p>\n
"As far as food goes, the Cafe and the Cascade Lounge are
\nalready open. The athletes can eat breakfast and lunch there. We
\nare going to give them supper in the grand ballroom every night."<\/p>\n
The 2,500-square-meter ballroom can accommodate 4,000 people
\nfor stand-up receptions and 2,500 people for sit-down functions.<\/p>\n
President Soeharto officiated at the hotel's grand opening on
\nSept. 20 but it will not open to the public until the end of this
\nmonth, Ira Maya said.<\/p>\n
"We don't have a fixed date yet it should be very soon after
\nthe last of the athletes leave on October 21."<\/p>",
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