I just read this in the news. Daily Times has reported the inauguration of The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, in Islamabad.
I am left wondering what are these people thinking? Can Pakistan afford, and sustain, a 7-star hotel? Do we really need one? And what is a 7-star hotel, after all? We can barely maintain a decent 2 or 3 star hotel in our major cities. Are we now competing with Dubai for architectural grandiosity? And whoever came up with the name should probably look for a job in Hollywood…
ISLAMABAD: The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, was inaugurated on Thursday. The $350 million complex is planned to have a 37-storey deluxe hotel, with two 21-storey residential towers, a 25-storey corporate office complex, and a 5-storey shopping mall. The complex will have a parking lot that would accommodate over 2,000 vehicles. The project will be completed in three years… The Pak Gulf Construction Private Limited company (PGCL) and Messrs Atkins engineering company – the constructors of Dubai’s renowned Burj Al Arab – are executing the project. Saudi Arabian Al-Tamimi Group and the Sardar Group of Companies are making the investment….
President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said it was “the right time to invest in Pakistan� because of the country’s positive economic policies of de-regulation, liberalisation and privatisation coupled with a liberal foreign exchange regimen. “We have opened all sectors of the economy for investment and the scourge of red-tapism and bureaucratic delays are being done away with,� said the president at the foundation-laying ceremony of The Centaurus.
There’s no such thing as a seven star hotel. you can’t get more than five stars. this INCLUDES the one in dubai.
Perhaps theis 7 star hotel is being built for, if I may use the term, “Lota” people during elections…
Sad.
cool! our rich and corrupt politicians need 7 Star Hotel and what about earth quake victims of Pakistan? Its the duty of international NGOs to give them proper shelter and feed their kids?
Ahem – Ahem. Have you ever thought that this is NOT for the common man but strictly designed for the RICH and INFLUENTIAL only. Influential more so as its not his money thats going to be spent but the national exchequer. In this category fall all our MNS’s MPA’s and Federal Minsiters. its more likely going to be dependent on them with. SAD