Inga's Dateline

tel Will Change [?]e Tourist Picture

m Dorothy Larin in Nukualofa. fonga’s new tourist hotel, The ;eline, in Nukualofa, has in on a new surge of activity ards completion, with the ointment of Max Tremain manager. Opening date has atively been set for March 1966, although actual corn ion of the building itself is by this December.

NX TREMAIN brings with him managerial experience from the fortable Roedean Hotel, Auck , a family affair which has ed him experience in all branches lotel work. From Roedean also 2s chef, Eric Bateman, and to an Eastern flavour there is a icse cook from Taiwan. Other will be recruited in Tonga and ed. ic Dateline is Government id and will offer 50 twin units, f which are fully air-conditioned can be turned into suites, or as connecting bedrooms for family mmodation. Meals will be a la

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ites will be priced at £TIO/ 107lay; £TS/10/- for a double room £T3/15/- single for air-con icd rooms, and £TS double, single for rooms without air itioning. There is a sliding scale hildren. Each room has its own and shower facilities. Tongan ncy is on a par with Australian, is three-storey tourist hotel ► many modern facilities new onga, including a beauty salon, > hairdresser, drug store, a duty shop and banking services. spacious health studio will de all aids to the “keep-fit” ad including steam and dry l baths. ere is an outdoor swimming and tennis court, with two •r squash courts planned for the future. urists visiting Tonga are re-

red to fill in a special entry mit, with photograph attached, daying in excess of two weeks, they don’t need a photograph if r will be here under two weeks.

Tiese entry permits will be issued passengers on planes or ships ire arrival, and photographs can taken on arrival for those without a copies. The plan is for the y procedure to be cut to the ; minimum. bnga offers much to the visitor the way of ideal climatic con ms, and a leisurely tempo of ig away from the jet routes, ut with the coming of the first ist hotel, everyone from Members •arliament to the man-in-the-street, been forced to take a new look hings. A modern hotel in itself Dt the answer to increased tourism, hey have been asking themselves t else Tonga can offer?

Onevoa Opening

Iready planned to open at the e time as the hotel is special >mmodation on the small, delight island of Onevoa, just twenty utes by launch from Nukualofa, 'ere, twin fale-type houses will be t with all modern conveniences, meals provided. Accommodation 12 is planned to start with on voa Island, where the swimming deal and glass-bottom boats will r the tourist a glimpse of the idise of reef life in the tropics, t Nukualofa itself, inboard run nts will be available for water ng, and special tours arranged sight-seeing. Roads to all these ictions are to be greatly im red, and already plans are being vn for an intermediate terminal ding at the airport.. This will jde Customs and Immigration lities and a coffee lounge for ellers. t the moment Polynesian Airways a service from Apia every

Monday and Fiji Airways a Tuesday and Thursday flight from Fiji, but it is hoped that these services will be extended after the hotel opens.

Apart from the financial rewards for the Kingdom for Tonga’s first tourist hotel, Dateline will offer much to the local resident, too.

Facilities of the hotel will be available to residents as a kind of club. For a premium of £l2 a year the swimming pool can be used at all times by residents, the benefits of the health studio will be available at ruling rates, and residents will be able to wine, dine and dance.

In October, the Premier. Prince Tungi, was in Tokyo, where among other things he was inspecting equipment for the hotel and arranging for samples to be sent back to the hotel management committee.

struction of Ton [?] Dateline Hotel Nukualofa was [?] advanced in ober, but the rial opening date still several months away. [?]o: Klaus Reschke.