Launched in December last year in Manila and promised to open several branches in the Philippines. Strategically, Tunes Hotel will open in Ermita, Ortigas, Angeles in Pampanga and Cebu. In time for the 17th Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, Tunes Hotel opened to the public their 165-room in Angeles City. The first branched to be opened in the Philippines.
The 165-room hotel is designed to be an airport hotel, providing convenience to passengers of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, also known as the Clark Airfield which is just 10 minutes’ drive away. The airport is also the hub for Philippine-based low cost carrier AirAsia Inc. (Philippines) that will start flying to domestic and international destinations soon.
Group CEO of Tune Hotels, Mark Lankester says: “We are very delighted to have finally established our first hotel in the Philippines right here in Angeles City, Pampanga. We would like to thank the local governments of Angeles and Pampanga, the Philippine Government and its agencies especially the Department of Tourism for their continuous support towards Tune Hotels. More Tune Hotels will be opening in the Philippines and we are excited to participate and play a key role in the robustly growing tourism and travel industry of the Philippines.”
The Tune Hotel Angeles City is owned and operated by Red Planet Hotels under a franchise agreement with Tune Hotels for the development of Tune Hotels in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.
Red Planet Chief Executive Officer, Tim Hansing, said the Angeles City property was the first of the company’s plans to expand the brand across key cities in the Philippines.
Tunes hotel in Angeles is conveniently located along the hotel and restaurant stretch of Friendship Road, Tune Hotel Angeles City is also 10 minutes by car to the Clark Freeport Zone, a former US Airbase that has been redeveloped with modern infrastructure facilities to be transformed into an airport-driven urban center perfect for the requirements of high-end IT enabled industries, aviation and logistics related enterprises, tourism and other sectors.
Angeles is approximately 80 kilometres north of Manila and can be reached within an hour by car or air-conditioned bus.
Tune Hotel Angeles City is the first of seven hotels scheduled for opening by Red Planet Hotels and Tune Hotels in the Philippines from now through to 2013. The Angeles opening will be immediately followed by a hotel in Cebu on 23 February and Ermita on 9 March. Future locations include Makati, Ortigas and Quezon City in Manila; and Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao.
Marty, Thanks so much for coming to India! I know you will traevl to Vishakapatnam. If you have to be in Hyderabad as well, please visit us. Do you remember us the Dutch family from Crosswalk going to India? Cor is now in Sunnyvale, by the way. You and your lovely wife Maxine, who is now with the Lord, prayed over us at RCP when we received our call to the longterm mission field in 2005. Just know we prayed for family when Maxine was ill. Yorick our son, now 20, had cancer in 2005 as you may remember. He has now a longterm call for Japan. Last year he did his DTS there with YWAM. Today he starts Bible College and hope prayerfully to go back to Japan in a few years. Amazing what the Lord has done in this boy’s life!Blessings and love, from Cor and Petra van de WaterMy email is
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