Parkroyal on Kitchener Road - previously known as the New Park Hotel - will undergo a $15 million facelift

Parkroyal on Kitchener Road - previously known as the New Park Hotel - will undergo a $15 million facelift, bringing it up to the deluxe standard of the group’s other properties in Singapore, Malaysia and Myanmar.

Renovations to the 530-room Parkroyal, which will include all public areas, start on Monday.

The executive director of the hotel’s management company, Wee Wei Ling, said that alongside the building renovations, which will include an executive floor to be called the Orchid Club - created exclusively for business guests - staff will be retrained to ensure that operating procedures come into line with the group’s deluxe category positioning.

Over the past five years, Hotel Plaza Ltd has spent a total of $72 million upgrading its five properties, including the development of a new 78-room wing at the Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur. In Singapore, the group’s flagship property - Parkroyal on Beach Road - completed its $8.1 million upgrading at the end of last year.

Hotel Plaza Ltd is looking to expand in the region by acquisition and by securing hotel management contracts.In 2010, it will acquire rights to the Parkroyal brand name in the Pacific.

Source: The Business Times, 25 January 2007