Grand Pacific
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Gets A Face Lift
Suva’s Grand Pacific Hotel, pos sibly the best-known hotel in the South Seas, is being extended and improved.
Work began in October following settlement, by arbitration, of the price which Cathay Hotels (Fiji).
Ltd., had to pay for the hotel. A contract was let to Narain Con struction Company to erect a three storey, 36-room block adjoining the hotel on the side farthest from the city. It should be completed by May.
In addition, bedrooms in the present building are being re modelled and a swimming pool is being built on the seaward side of the hotel.
Value of the contract is under stood to be about £50,000.
Tenders might also soon be called by Cathay for the building of a new 60-room hotel at Saweni Beach, be tween Nadi and Lautoka.
Like the new G.P.H. wing it will be fully air-conditioned, with self contained room units.
Mr Barry Philp, who operates the Mocambo Hotel at Nadi Airport, is known to have struck difficulties with the Fijian land-owners in his plan to erect a major tourist hotel on Yanuca island, an ideal site not far from the Korolevu Beach Hotel.
Last month's photograph of the work in progress at the Grand Pacific Hotel. A swimming pool will be built in the area in the left of the photograph. —Rob Wright, Fiji PRO.