Royal Resort For Royal Tourists

Project manager of the Royal Samoan Hotel, Colonel John Collard, arrived in Apia recently with a team of experts to begin the first phase of the hotel. This consists of reclaiming 65 acres of land near Apia upon which the Royal Samoan Hotel will be built. The first 150 rooms are expected to be completed by the end of the year, and 300 more rooms are being planned to be added later. The hotel is owned by Richard Hadley, a Seattle, USA, multi-millionaire, but is expected to be eventually owned by the people of Western Samoa.