[size=14pt]***Le Méridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort*** [/size]

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Opening July 1, 2007


[U]Overview[/U]

Le Meridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort is currently accepting group inquiries at the pre-opening office, which is located at the address listed above. This is also the hotel's physical address. Individual hotel reservations are not being accepted at this time.

Le Meridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort invites you to a world of landscaped tropical beauty.

Private terraces in each of the 130 guest rooms, 26 suites, and 7 chalets offer views over a forest of palm trees and the golf course.

Find understated sophistication at our three bars and three restaurants as well as Marina Club House & BBQ Terrace. Ample complimentary parking facilities, a heliport with two paths, three retail shops, hair salon, and VIP lounge allow for effortless ease and comfort.

Conference and banquet facilities are available for up to 1,000 people as well as a fully equipped business centre with rental office space and ten function rooms.

Recreational facilities are plentiful, with a fitness and health club, outdoor kids and adult pool, two Jacuzzis, tennis, squash, our Le Meridien Ibom Golf Club 2007 - the Uyo Golf Club with clubhouse and pro-shop, as well as a riverside marina with floating jetty.

Discover the beauty of Le Meridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort.

A Magnificent Architectural Master Piece

he should have focused on what the common man needs, like jobs and roads and healthcare. with all the money that state gets, they could have done much better than a golf course

The interior looks ok but the exterior feels sub-standard.doesn't look like a place where Tiger and Els would play.The grass still has lots of brown.

It looks great in pictures but its when you see it live

How many people play golf in nigeria even

Maybe Attah wants Uyo to be a tourist attraction, hence its focus in building a golf course. Actually like its inclusion of palm trees in the setting. So, anybody wey go jam Naija for Christmas, lets hook up there, my2cents, samsilo, londoncool, and the rest . . .

hmm Golf Tourism?

whats the weather like in Akwa Ibom in december?

A casino and a Spa will be incorporated

Spa for Le Meridien Nigeria

The Ibom Le Meridien Hotel and Golf Resort in Nigeria, Africa, is reportedly due to expand its services with the addition of a health spa and a casino.

The 151-room Nigerian resort already has two fine-dining restaurants, a fitness centre and a swimming pool.

The resort was acquired by Le Meridien’s parent company Starwood last year, as part of the group’s continuing expansion into Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Good to see our govts have their priorities in order.
First a glorified shopping centre, then a holiday resort
and now a golf course.

For whose benefit are all these govt projects?

Les Middle Class.

Not everyone likes going abroad all the time for Holidays. Nigerians can stay in Nigeria and relax in Nigeria.

No problem with that but let the private sector pay for it.
Govt. other then creating a conducive atmosphere for such
projects shouldn't get involved.

It should concentrate on providing basic facilities like schools,
health care, roads and infrastructure for all citizens. Not just
an elite few.

Well that's just the Problem.

Nigeria is an Emerging Economy. The Third Largest Economy in Africa. Although Nigeria has Poverty and all that, Nigeria also has a Growing Middle Class. To support the economy, Nigeria must attend to Basic Infrastructure like you mentioned as well as Leisure Facilities to act as a backbone for the Hospitality Sector. Nigeria also needs to create other means of Revenue to address basic needs. Oil is fast running out, and such ventures such as this Resort in Uyo, Akwa Ibom will help enhance the Tourism sector in Nigeria and thus create revenue, that can be further used to build schools etc. Apart from generating revenue, such initiatives also alleviate the unemployment rate and thus reduce crime and instability.

Lets Face it, Nigeria basically has Oil and Agriculture to utilize, in a couple of decades, Oil will be out the Picture, and a new Revenue income earner like Tourism will have to take it's place.

So at the End of the Day, such initiatives like this one do not benefit the Rich and taunt the poor, they sustain the Middle Class and Bridge the Gap of Rich and poor through Job Creation and Income Generation, like I said earlier.