Sighted by tourists, Quest upbeat

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

JUST weeks after it opened, a new business hotel sees a promising future ahead, immediately seeing event and room bookings since operations began.

Quest Hotel and Conference Center soft-opened last Feb. 1 and its sales director Sarah Mascariñas said the market has been “very receptive.”

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She said they enjoyed 96 percent occupancy last Friday and hosted four functions for that day, including the Annual Economic Briefing organized by the Cebu Business Club and University of San Carlos School of Business and Economics.

The hotel expects to be fully operational by the third quarter of the year.

The hotel is a joint venture of Filinvest Land Inc. and Aston International, a chain of hotels, resorts and residences, which also manages Crimson Resort and Spa in Mactan, Cebu. The partnership has been named Fil-Archipelago Hospitality Inc.

The hotel will add 427 rooms to Cebu’s growing hotel industry but Mascariñas said only 112 rooms in three floors are available for now.

The hotel will occupy the seventh to 19th floors while the 20th to 25th levels will be the residential floors.

The hotel will come with 10 meeting rooms, along with private meeting rooms in the hotel coffee shop, a swimming pool and a business center.

As of Friday, two meeting rooms are available for use at the hotel’s seventh floor
while the other eight will be made available by the middle of next month or in April, Mascariñas said.

They offer four types of rooms--the deluxe, premiere deluxe, which offers a balcony overlooking the swimming pool, the junior suite and corporate suite.

Hotel guests, she said, will also enjoy complimentary wifi access.

Mascariñas said their location, which is across the Cebu Business Park on Archbishop Reyes Ave., makes them the ideal hotel for business.

“It’s a very strategic location. It’s at the heart of the business community,” she said.

Since they opened, she said most of their guests include long-staying expatriates, locals in Cebu for the weekend and corporate guests.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on February 23, 2012.