By I.H.Sharif :
Under the leadership of General Manager Eldridge Johnson Mac Ewan 111, Pan Pacific Sonargaon, one of the leading world-class hotels in Bangladesh, collects for the public exchequer as much as BDT 1.25 to 1.50 crore as VAT (value added tax) revenue from its overall sales including F & B (food and beverage) service monthly. The hotel achieves as high as 80 per cent occupancy on an average annually and is in the LTU (large taxpayer unit) list of the government.
Offering a choice of 277 suites and rooms, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, is located at a distance of 30 minutes drive from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, 10 minutes drive to Gulshan Commercial and Diplomatic Zone through Hatirjheel flyover and five minutes from one of the largest shopping malls in Asia-Bashundhara City comprising over 2,500 retail and electronic stores, cafeterias and a multiplex movie theater. The hotel meets the needs of residential accommodation for people traveling on business or pleasure.
Launched some thirty-three years ago in 1982, the hotel achieves about 80 per cent room occupancy round the year and collects highest VAT revenue from its sales of F & B (food and beverage) in Bangladesh.
The room features of Sonargaon include 42-inch LCD television with local and cable channels, highspeed broadband and/or Wi Fi internet access, fully stocked mini-bar, complimentary bottled water and daily newspaper, walk-in wardrobe, bathrobe, slippers and hairdryer, IDD telephone and voice mail, personal digital safe, 24-hour in-room dining and daily turn-down service.
The weekend package for two checking in at 2 PM and checking out at 12-noon on the next day costs BDT 14,800 including complimentary buffet breakfast that costs BDT 2,350 per person. Its buffet lunch costs BDT 2,550 and buffet dinner costs BDT 2,750 per person.
Sonargaon has two swimming pools-one for children and the other for adults. For room guests the use of swimming pools is complimentary and for outsiders the charges are BDT 1,500 per person and BDT 1,000 per child.
When some fifty years ago, I emerged Khulna district champion, Rajshahi University champion and finished runner-up in East Pakistan combined universities swimming championship at the age of around 20 in 1965, I did not imagine that I would get the opportunity of swimming in the superb swimming pool of Sonargaon Hotel some fifty years later.
At the end of May last, I along with my eleven-year old grandson, Aleef Sarar Sharif who is now living with his parents in Los Angeles, USA, got down to swim at the swimming pool of Sonargaon. My main purpose was to train up my grandson with the art of swimming. When we were in the swimming pool two foreigners and a local elderly person were also in the pool. None of them knew the art of swimming for taking part in competition where a competitor has to use both legs and hands for propelling forward. All of them were seen swimming using only their hands for propelling forward.
US national Eldridge J. Mac Ewan who joined Pan Pacific Sonargaon five years ago in 2010 is said to be a very efficient General Manager of the hotel. Asked to give his comment about Pan Pacific Sonargaon, he said, “It is dynamic,” while talking to me in the morning on 24 November last.
Prior to joining Pan Pacific Hotels Group in 1997, with his first appointment as General Manager of the elegant and prestigious, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka, he held numerous executive positions throughout the world including Cairo, Dubai, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur and throughout the United States. During his career in the hospitality industry, Eldridge J. Mac Ewan has won lots of awards between 1986 until now.
Under the leadership of General Manager Eldridge Johnson Mac Ewan 111, Pan Pacific Sonargaon, one of the leading world-class hotels in Bangladesh, collects for the public exchequer as much as BDT 1.25 to 1.50 crore as VAT (value added tax) revenue from its overall sales including F & B (food and beverage) service monthly. The hotel achieves as high as 80 per cent occupancy on an average annually and is in the LTU (large taxpayer unit) list of the government.
Offering a choice of 277 suites and rooms, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, is located at a distance of 30 minutes drive from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, 10 minutes drive to Gulshan Commercial and Diplomatic Zone through Hatirjheel flyover and five minutes from one of the largest shopping malls in Asia-Bashundhara City comprising over 2,500 retail and electronic stores, cafeterias and a multiplex movie theater. The hotel meets the needs of residential accommodation for people traveling on business or pleasure.
Launched some thirty-three years ago in 1982, the hotel achieves about 80 per cent room occupancy round the year and collects highest VAT revenue from its sales of F & B (food and beverage) in Bangladesh.
The room features of Sonargaon include 42-inch LCD television with local and cable channels, highspeed broadband and/or Wi Fi internet access, fully stocked mini-bar, complimentary bottled water and daily newspaper, walk-in wardrobe, bathrobe, slippers and hairdryer, IDD telephone and voice mail, personal digital safe, 24-hour in-room dining and daily turn-down service.
The weekend package for two checking in at 2 PM and checking out at 12-noon on the next day costs BDT 14,800 including complimentary buffet breakfast that costs BDT 2,350 per person. Its buffet lunch costs BDT 2,550 and buffet dinner costs BDT 2,750 per person.
Sonargaon has two swimming pools-one for children and the other for adults. For room guests the use of swimming pools is complimentary and for outsiders the charges are BDT 1,500 per person and BDT 1,000 per child.
When some fifty years ago, I emerged Khulna district champion, Rajshahi University champion and finished runner-up in East Pakistan combined universities swimming championship at the age of around 20 in 1965, I did not imagine that I would get the opportunity of swimming in the superb swimming pool of Sonargaon Hotel some fifty years later.
At the end of May last, I along with my eleven-year old grandson, Aleef Sarar Sharif who is now living with his parents in Los Angeles, USA, got down to swim at the swimming pool of Sonargaon. My main purpose was to train up my grandson with the art of swimming. When we were in the swimming pool two foreigners and a local elderly person were also in the pool. None of them knew the art of swimming for taking part in competition where a competitor has to use both legs and hands for propelling forward. All of them were seen swimming using only their hands for propelling forward.
US national Eldridge J. Mac Ewan who joined Pan Pacific Sonargaon five years ago in 2010 is said to be a very efficient General Manager of the hotel. Asked to give his comment about Pan Pacific Sonargaon, he said, “It is dynamic,” while talking to me in the morning on 24 November last.
Prior to joining Pan Pacific Hotels Group in 1997, with his first appointment as General Manager of the elegant and prestigious, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka, he held numerous executive positions throughout the world including Cairo, Dubai, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur and throughout the United States. During his career in the hospitality industry, Eldridge J. Mac Ewan has won lots of awards between 1986 until now.
