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Palace Hotel Guam checks-out last guest
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Posted on Dec 05 2006
[B]TAMUNING, Guam[/B]—The Palace Hotel Guam, located on Oka Point Tamuning, checked-out its last guest on Nov. 30, 2006. The hotel opened on April 17, 1991 and currently employs 118 people.
On June 1, 2006, Ken Corp. of Japan purchased the Palace Hotel Guam and announced that it will be re-branded as the Sheraton Laguna Guam Resort. Brian K. Pak was named general manager of the hotel.
Ken Corp. also announced that a $40 million plus renovation was going to be made to the hotel, raising its classification from a one-star hotel to a five-and-a-half star resort.
The renovation plans include transforming the hotel’s garden court to an extensive tropical lagoon, its current 368 standard rooms and 35 suites to 227 standard rooms and 84 suites and replacing the three food and beverage outlets with five food and beverage outlets, including a Japanese fine dining restaurant, international café, lounge, bar and poolside venue. The hotel’s existing chapel will also be replaced with a unique, “floating” chapel on the property’s lagoon.
The Sheraton Laguna Guam Resort will be under a full-scale renovation from December 2006 to March 2007.
“The hotel will be unlike any hotel in Guam, offering state-of-the-art amenities and facilities that the island and its guests have yet to experience,” Ken Corp. said in a statement.
A soft opening is projected on April 1, 2007 and grand opening on April 20, 2007.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 850 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W, Le Méridien and the recently announced aloftSM and ELEMENTSM Hotels. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc. For more information, visit www.starwoodhotels.com. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
