PULLMAN Bangkok King Power has spent about US$900,000 on transforming an entire guestroom floor into meeting space to serve the increasing demand for small- to medium-sized venues.
Replacing the 20 guestrooms on the property’s sixth floor is a new 800m2 site, which comprises five meeting rooms that can each cater for about 50-70 guests, as well as lobby areas for coffee breaks.
The hotel’s general manager, Marc Bagassat, said the addition of the new meeting space provides some welcome respite from the floods in Thailand, which severely affected the local hotel industry last month.
“We went ahead with the investment (despite the floods), as in business, if you wait until things settle down, you would not be able to move on,” he said.
The new meeting space is scheduled to welcome next week its inaugural customer: a 12-pax residential meeting which runs over two days.
According to Bagassat, the venue is expected to run at about 30 to 40 per cent occupancy in its first year of operations, and will be priced about 15 per cent higher than the nine existing meeting spaces on the hotel’s lower levels.
Meanwhile, in a bid to stimulate bookings, the hotel is offering a 10+1 package on both meeting spaces and guestrooms from now till March 31 next year.
By Sirima Eamtako
