LKY positive to hit December target for hotel opening

By Provincial Media Relations Center
October 21, 2011

TACLOBAN CITY  –  LKY Property Holdings Inc. is positive they can hit the December 15 target date to open the newly rehabilitated McArthur Park Beach Resort Hotel.

LKY Property Holdings Inc. President Wilbert Lee assured Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla that the newly rehabilitated hotel will open in December as rehabilitation is on the full run to finish all the facilities.

Lee himself toured the governor around the new facilities being constructed around the 4.9 hectare property of the former McArthur Park Beach Resort, just a day before the historic 67th Leyte Gulf Landings Commemoration.

It was learned that the private investor LKY property pushed for a total renovation of the property with all of the buildings and facilities of the previous hotel tore down and new structures erected.

A new and grander lobby now sits in place adjacent to the hotel’s restaurant and spa lounges. The hotel will also have an outdoor pool and fitness facilities.

A new building has also been put in place that houses conference/ meeting rooms and a ballroom with an estimated 1,000 sitting capacity conducive for big events and national conferences.

Gov. Petilla has earlier commented that there is a need in the province and the region for a bigger venue to host national conventions and other events that caters to a bigger crowd.

“We still lack that kind of venue here. Our bigger facilities are gymnasiums, astrodomes which are more conducive for sports events but not a facility that is more suited to conferences, meetings and the likes,” Gov. Petilla said.

The same need has been echoed by the Department of Tourism in the region.

Initially, the LKY McArthur Park Hotel will have 65 rooms with some of these being suites with living room area, small kitchen and open balconies facing the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean and romantic sunrise settings.

The hotel has less number of rooms compared to the 116-rooms of the LKY Mayon Imperial Hotel – a hotel in Legaspi City which underwent the same total renovation by LKY Property Holdings Inc. However, the McArthur Park hotel sits on a larger property and can still afford more area for other facilities. 

Renovation of the LKY Mayon Imperial Hotel, which started a little before its McArthur Park counterpart here in 2009, was only completed in June 2011.