In with the Inn crowd

Aquila Park, the company behind the Jastrzębia residential complex in Józefów on the outskirts of Warsaw, has started construction work on a new hotel and a conferencing facility in the same area. The total value of the investment is E20 (zł.77) million and its area will exceed 12,000 sqm. Aquila Park has already started cooperation with Intercontinental Hotels Group and now plans to set up a company to operate the hotel.

The developer expects the new Holiday Inn, which is primarily a conferencing center with 11 conference halls of some 850 sqm, to host several tens of thousands of visitors a year. The company sees the hotel's distance of around 20km from the city center as an advantage. "The location will help us organize open-air events away from the city center. We aim at corporate customers who want to arrange conferences and other events. We also intend to offer recreation activities, and placing our complex in this particular place has great potential in that respect," says Marcin Górzyński, president of Aquila Park.

The new facility, which will also host a mini-water park, a spa and fitness center with saunas, a beauty salon, a golf course and parking lots for 200 cars, is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2007. The company says it will be investing in further hotel facilities in Poland.