Wednesday, March 10, 2010 City Lodge at OR Tambo Airport opens 78 rooms
CITY Lodge at OR Tambo Airport (the hotel’s official name) opens its first 78 rooms today (March 10), becoming the 46th hotel in the City Lodge Hotels group. The 303 room hotel, situated on three levels above a new car park at the airport, will be fully open by the end of May.
Costing around R210m to develop, the hotel is operated by City Lodge through a land and building lease agreement with ACSA.
Apart from having the usual City Lodge facilities – such as wireless Internet in all rooms, breakfast, coffee shop, gym, swimming pool and bar – the hotel also offers two functions rooms (24 and 22 seaters) that can be combined into a 46-seater, a meeting room and a board room.
Importantly, it has its own set of arrival and departure screens so that guests and visitors to the hotel can be kept totally up to date with aircraft comings and goings at the airport.
The hotel also has easy access to all of the airport’s shopping facilities and to the Gautrain airport terminal which is nearing completion.