After a three-year design and construction project, the designer Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Menlyn Park has opened its doors with reports of superior design and artistic elements. There’s a 17m Chesterfield couch in the lounge, an Olympic-length lap pool, stairwell graffiti, light features and other trendy indoor/outdoor spaces.
The hotel sets a new standard for stylish hospitality in Tshwane with its seamless indoor/outdoor social spaces and its on-trend interior tone. But the hotel’s real draw card will be the wide variety of event offerings, tailor-made for the Pretoria audience.
“With [each] Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! property the Protea Hotels group opens, we have pushed the envelope on style and have set trends. Pretoria is no different,” said Mark Satterfield, Marriott International business leader in South Africa.
The new hotel is situated next to the Menlyn Park shopping mall and close to the N1 highway. It is designed for the “millennial traveller” and visitor. The social areas are meant to flow easily from dining to indoor lounging and then to outdoor lounging in the outdoor living room, where social pods with their own individual fireplaces are spaced around the Olympic-length swimming pool. There is free unlimited wifi, across multiple devices.
The signature decadent milkshakes and gourmet burgers are on the menu, too, plus food-and-drink pairing events. But what should set the hotel apart is that it is said to have one of the largest and most flexible conferencing facilities in an on-trend design environment.
The ground floor can accommodate up to 350 delegates and the first floor up to 250 delegates. Each of the large spaces, filled with natural Highveld light from floor-to-ceiling windows, may also be divided in half to provide to discrete, soundproof conference rooms. On the first floor, the conference offering is further enhanced by two conference suites which consist of a boardroom each with an en-suite lounge. These may be used for breakaway groups or for smaller meetings, either together or as stand-alone venues.
“Pretoria is a young, exciting city that simply doesn’t get its dues. Protea Hotels recognised that there is a lively set of young-at-heart, ambitious movers and shakers in Pretoria whose choices for playing hard after working hard are pretty limited. Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Menlyn fills a gap we believe our guests have been waiting for for years,” concluded Satterfield.
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The hotel sets a new standard for stylish hospitality in Tshwane with its seamless indoor/outdoor social spaces and its on-trend interior tone. But the hotel’s real draw card will be the wide variety of event offerings, tailor-made for the Pretoria audience.
“With [each] Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! property the Protea Hotels group opens, we have pushed the envelope on style and have set trends. Pretoria is no different,” said Mark Satterfield, Marriott International business leader in South Africa.
The new hotel is situated next to the Menlyn Park shopping mall and close to the N1 highway. It is designed for the “millennial traveller” and visitor. The social areas are meant to flow easily from dining to indoor lounging and then to outdoor lounging in the outdoor living room, where social pods with their own individual fireplaces are spaced around the Olympic-length swimming pool. There is free unlimited wifi, across multiple devices.
The signature decadent milkshakes and gourmet burgers are on the menu, too, plus food-and-drink pairing events. But what should set the hotel apart is that it is said to have one of the largest and most flexible conferencing facilities in an on-trend design environment.
The ground floor can accommodate up to 350 delegates and the first floor up to 250 delegates. Each of the large spaces, filled with natural Highveld light from floor-to-ceiling windows, may also be divided in half to provide to discrete, soundproof conference rooms. On the first floor, the conference offering is further enhanced by two conference suites which consist of a boardroom each with an en-suite lounge. These may be used for breakaway groups or for smaller meetings, either together or as stand-alone venues.
“Pretoria is a young, exciting city that simply doesn’t get its dues. Protea Hotels recognised that there is a lively set of young-at-heart, ambitious movers and shakers in Pretoria whose choices for playing hard after working hard are pretty limited. Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Menlyn fills a gap we believe our guests have been waiting for for years,” concluded Satterfield.
