A new hotel is opening in Bacolod City today with fully booked rooms in time for the Philippine Airlines Interclub golf tournament that is expected to draw close to 2,000 golfers to Negros Occidental.

The Planta Centro Bacolod Hotel and Residences at the corner of Araneta and Roxas streets, which cost about P114 million, is of Mediterranean style with a touch of classical architecture, its architect Ramiro Garcia said.

It will also provide 150 new jobs.

The hotel is owned by the Tanpinco and Montelibano families, also the owners of the Business Inn in Bacolod City , he said.

Its president and corporate chef is Benedict John Uy, while the hotel manager is Darrylin Sumalangcay and interior designer is Leo Almeria.

The hotel has 82 guest rooms, including six suites and a loft, fitted with wireless internet access.

It also has a business center, a fitness center and outdoor swimming pool, a 24-hour coffee shop, towers and an observatory, and 10 function rooms, one with a capacity for 350, and another that can open up to the courtyard and swimming pool area and accommodate about 700, Garcia said.

The 6,700 square meter hotel was built at P17,000 per square meter including furniture, he said.*CPG

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