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CHIANG MAI, Thailand (17 May 2022) – Meliá Chiang Mai, a 260-key metropolis resort throughout the coronary coronary heart of Thailand’s mountainous Chiang Mai, with a number of the metropolis’s most spectacular views and its highest rooftop bar, opened on 10 April 2022.
Owned by Thailand’s primary built-in lifestyle precise property group, Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC), and launched by Meliá Hotels International, Meliá Chiang Mai is the first five-star resort to debut in Chiang Mai as a result of the onset of the worldwide pandemic. Situated on the energetic Charoen Prathet Road, hovering over the River Ping and bustling Night Bazaar, the resort is part of a roll-out of the Meliá mannequin in key areas all through Thailand that began with the launch of the nautical-themed Meliá Koh Samui, Thailand in January 2020.
With a design that pays homage to updated aesthetics and Chiang Mai’s charming historic previous and customs, Meliá Chiang Mai is located six kilometers from the Chiang Mai International Airport, near an array of vacationer factors of curiosity along with the Old Town with its historic moat and red-brick partitions. The metropolis’s oldest temple Wat Chiang Man, and the scenic Ang Kaew Reservoir have moreover inside shut proximity, with the elephant rescue coronary heart Elephant Nature Park, the gorgeous Mae Ya Waterfall, and UNESCO’s latest biosphere reserve Doi Chiang Dao throughout the mountainous surrounds.
Housed in a 22-floor tower fronted by an adjoining seven-floor podium establishing, Meliá Chiang Mai’s host of top-notch facilities consists of two consuming locations, two bars, and two lounges, one with an govt lounge on the 21st floor. Other facilities embrace Meliá’s signature YHI Spa with seven treatment rooms, a fully-equipped well being coronary heart, swimming pool, ballroom, 4 completely different meeting areas, and a youngsters and youths membership.
DINING
The resort’s pièce de résistance is a 360-degree rooftop bar on the 22nd floor named Mai The Sky Bar. Comprising two bars linked by a glass bridge, the bar affords views of the River Ping to the city’s east and the famed Doi Suthep Temple on the mountaintop to the west
Under the stewardship of multi-award-winning govt chef Suksant Chutinthratip, the resort attracts on Meliá’s Spanish origins and celebrates Spain’s famed gastronomy at its signature restaurant Mai Restaurant and Bar, on the twenty first floor, an all-day consuming restaurant Laan Na Kitchen.
Seating as a lot as 38 diners, Mai Restaurant and Bar focuses on luxurious updated Lanna (Northern Thai) mannequin dishes with Mediterranean influences, as cooks put collectively each dish à la minute from an open kitchen. Signature dishes embrace ‘Baked salmon trout fillet with nam prik oung pimentos‘ and ‘Pappardella soi curry noodles with yellow curry rooster and do-it-yourself pickled cabbage‘
Laan Na Kitchen serves real Mediterranean delicacies ranging from ‘Salmorejo con tomate triturado’ to ‘Fideuá de marisco’ in a vibrant market setting. In addition to its indoor house seating 110 diners and patio house catering to 26 additional people, Laan Na Kitchen moreover choices 4 private consuming rooms.
Mai The Sky Bar serves an array of real Spanish tapas and pinchos along with an infinite alternative of drinks along with imaginative cocktails crafted by professional bartenders.
The open-air Tien Pool Bar, located above the lobby on the second floor, embraces the resort’s outdoors swimming pool ambiance and lures mates with numerous tasty snacks, many with a Spanish aptitude much like ‘Bocadillo serranito’, and numerous refreshing drinks.
Next to Laan Na Kitchen on the underside floor, Ruen Kaew Lounge serves a healthful, small bites menu beneath the ‘My Balance by Meliá’ program along with a wellness-inspired afternoon tea, espresso, and further.
The resort moreover supplies a 24-hour in-room consuming menu along with 5 distinct healthful breakfast items, as part of ‘My Balance by Meliá’, along with a Spanish, Chinese, and native breakfast alternative.
In partnership with ‘Ori9in, The Gourmet Farm’, Meliá Chiang Mai is embracing the ‘farm to table’ social movement by establishing its private sustainable farm in San Sai District to reap pure fruit, greens, and herbs for its consuming locations. Under its ‘360° Cuisine’ program, the resort works fastidiously with native farmers to boost sustainability, encourage ethical manufacturing, help the farming group, give mates peace of ideas in regards to the place their meals comes from and make communities and the final meals system additional resilient.
Of the property’s in depth room portfolio, 38 rooms and 6 suites belong to ‘The Level’, an upgraded diploma of service and benefits that offers distinctive entry to The Level govt lounge. A sophisticated house for savoring an upgraded breakfast, complimentary all-day snacks, afternoon tea, and night time cocktails, the lounge will be suited to casual enterprise conferences. Private check-in and check-out at The Level Lounge, late check-out until 2 pm (subject to availability), complimentary ironing of garments, and a ten% low value on the YHI Spa are amongst completely different The Level benefits.
GUEST ROOMS AND SUITES
Meliá Chiang Mai’s 9 courses of updated, shiny, and homely lodging embrace rooms ranging in measurement from 30sqm to 54sqm and suites starting at 62sqm and topping out at 113sqm. All lodging operate a king-sized mattress (with two single beds moreover obtainable) and mod-cons much like a flat-screen TV with a alternative of worldwide channels, tea and coffee-making facilities, and ironing facilities.
The lead-in ‘Meliá Room’ supplies metropolis vistas with west-facing rooms providing a window on sunsets over one amongst Thailand’s most iconic factors of curiosity, the historic Buddhist temple on Doi Suthep mountain, and east-facing rooms that take throughout the daybreak over the Ping River.
The ‘Meliá Corner Room’ and ‘Meliá Premium Room’ are every completely soundproofed and have a chaise-longue that stretches your complete dimension of the glass wall. The 54sqm ‘Premium Corner Room’ is completely outfitted with a sofa, desk and chairs, and trendy amenities along with a mini-bar and alarm clock. The Family Room, moreover 54sqm, supplies ample room for additional beds, with connecting rooms obtainable upon request.
Located on the higher flooring of the resort, the 62sqm ‘Level Suite’ supplies bathtubs and sweeping views of Chiang Mai. Commanding 113 sqm on the 20th floor, ‘The Level Presidential Suite’ is the epitome of magnificence and sophistication. The Level Lounge is obtainable to mates staying in ‘The Level Room’, ‘The Level Premium Room’, ‘The Level Suite’, and ‘The Level Presidential Suite’
SPA AND WELLNESS
Meliá Chiang Mai’s YHI Spa choices seven private treatment rooms, designed in an underwater theme, and a traditional Thai pure sauna to help cleanse detox, and ease muscle strain.
The YHI Spa choices 4 single treatment rooms, two double (or {{couples}}) treatment rooms, and one double room for Thai therapeutic therapeutic massage along with a separate room for pedicures with two seats
The spa’s expert therapists use historic Asian therapeutic information combined with modern wellness methods in a full fluctuate of physique cures from massages and scrubs to wraps and facials, leaving spa-goers revitalized and refreshed. Treatments are primarily based totally on pure Thai wellness mannequin HARNN’s merchandise, made with pure elements by means of methods handed all the way in which right down to the generations of Thai artisans.
Overlooking the surface swimming pool on the second floor, the gymnasium consists of premium well being gear from the latest Matrix line by Johnson along with treadmills, elliptical trainers, and prepare bikes, along with a free weights station and a bunch of weights machines.
MICE FACILITIES
An idyllic venue for events and weddings, the property’s in depth conference facilities embrace a 358-sqm ballroom named Yi Peng Grand Ballroom and two carry out rooms on the tower’s second floor above the lobby, and a 185-sqm multi-purpose carry out room on the podium establishing’s prime floor, the seventh floor.
The ballroom’s 173-sqm pre-function house is linked to the surface swimming pool and Tien Pool Bar. As part of the ‘Power Meetings by Meliá’ program, the Power Lounge comprises a pool desk, drinks house, and funky seating suited to down-time between conferences.
Khom Multi-Function Room, on the seventh floor, opens to a 222-sqm outdoors terrace that moreover lends itself to events attributable to views of Chiang Mai, the river, and the mountains. The Khom Multi-Function Room adjoins a secret yard, that makes for a welcome shock all through espresso breaks.
“As one of the most popular places to visit on any travel itinerary to Thailand, we can’t help but be optimistic about the future of Chiang Mai’s tourism industry,” talked about Mrs. Wallapa Traisorat, Meliá Chiang Mai’s proprietor and AWC’s CEO and President. “Trading on the mystic splendor of Northern Thailand, this flagship hotel is part of AWC’s efforts to build a better future for Thailand’s tourism landscape and economy amid the new normal.”
“Following the successful launch of Meliá Koh Samui, Thailand, Meliá Chiang Mai marks an exciting expansion of Meliá Hotels International in Thailand,” talked about Mr. Ignacio Martin, Area Managing Director South East Asia of Meliá Hotels International. “To deliver Meliá’s warm Spanish hospitality, distinctive passion for service, and focus on the customer’s wellbeing, this hotel’s launch is all the more remarkable in these trying times.”
“Meliá Chiang Mai opens with about 160 employees and will eventually employ a total of 240 people,” talked about Meliá Chiang Mai’s General Manager, Mr. Edward E. Snoeks. “In addition to being hugely beneficial for local employees and their families, the launch of the first five-star hotel to open in the city since the start of the global pandemic is a much-needed morale boost for the local tourism industry.”
To contact Meliá Chiang Mai or to make a reserving, e-mail [email protected], title +66 52 090 699 or go to https://www.melia.com/en/hotels/thailand/chiang-mai/melia-chiang-mai/index.htm
To have an excellent time its opening, Meliá Chiang Mai is offering as a lot as 35% off its lodging for bookings on melia.com, for bookings and stays from now until 15 September 2022.
