INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Group (IHG) has announced the opening of Holiday Inn Mauritius Airport on the island’s picturesque south east coast.
The hotel is ideally located, just 700 m from the new SSR International Airport, five minutes from the nearest beach and 45 kilometres from the capital, Port Louis.
The 140-room hotel is surrounded by gardens. The names of the hotel’s food and beverage outlets pay tribute to the proximity to the country’s airport and the history of air trips and travel in Mauritius: its all-day dining restaurant, ‘1933’, is named after the year the first international flight was made from the island and ‘Piper Navajo’, its bar lounge, is named after the first type of plane used to link Mauritius island to Rodrigues island in 1972.
In addition to leisure guests, Holiday Inn Mauritius Airport caters for Mauritius’ growing business travel community with 450 sq m of meeting space, including a boardroom and four meeting rooms with garden break-out access. Views of the gardens can be enjoyed from the hotel’s large terraces, including one adjoining ‘Piper Navajo’, and a north-west facing pool terrace with a stepped, infinity pool.
The hotel conversion was completed with historic and environmental considerations, using basalt rock from existing shacks and out-houses in its construction. In addition, the building features rainwater harvesting for irrigation and uses local timber in all public areas, to help reduce carbon footprint.
Jean-Eric Sirop, general manager, Holiday Inn Mauritius Airport, says: “The combination of the building and ground’s unique character, with its prime location close to both the airport and Mauritius’ beautiful beaches, will make this a popular hotel for business and leisure guests.”
This hotel is IHG’s second hotel in Mauritius, joining InterContinental Resort Mauritius at the Bay of Balaclava. There are more than 1,200 Holiday Inn hotels around the world, with another 250 in the global development pipeline.