Hala Hotel & Aqua Park is a hotel and water park in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
The hotel opened in 1989, as the Bissau Sheraton Hotel. It left Sheraton in 1992 and was renamed the Hotel Hotti Bissau.[1] It closed in 1998, as a result of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War, during which the rebels used it as a headquarters.[2] As of 1998 it had 165 rooms and 15 suites.[3][4] It was acquired[5] by the Libyan African Investment Company (LAICO) in 2004 and reopened in 2005 as the Libya Hotel. It was later renamed the LAICO Bissau Hotel.[6] In 2015 it was renovated, and reopened in January 2016 within LAICO's business-class Ledger Plaza brand as the Ledger Plaza Hotel Bissau.[7] In 2021, the hotel was received by an investment agreement between LAICO Bissau and MTM Bissau and changed the brand to Hala Hotel & Aqua Park.[8]
References
edit- ^ New African Yearbook. IC Magazines Limited. 1997. p. 213. ISBN 9780905268620.
- ^ Trillo, Richard (2 June 2008). The Rough Guide to West Africa. Rough Guides Limited. p. 1261. ISBN 978-1-4053-8068-3.
- ^ Africa hoje (in Portuguese). A. Cardoso. 1998. p. 10.
- ^ África hoje (in Portuguese). A. Cardoso. 1997. p. 201.
- ^ Mendy, Peter Karibe (17 October 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Scarecrow Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6.
- ^ "LAICO Guinea-Bissau".
- ^ "Libyan hotel in Guinea-Bissau reopens in January 2016 – Macauhub".
- ^ "Hala Hotel & Aqua Park || About Us". Hala Hotel & Aqua Park || Welcome to Hala Hotel & Aqua Park. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
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