(21 Sep 2021)
Indonesia’s newest 5-star luxury hotel is also
Langham’s first hotel in South East Asia.
The 223-room property, which soft opened on 9
September, is located in District 8 at SCBD and features, amongst
many other things, a 336 sqm Presidential Suite and
Chef Tom Aikens very first restaurant in the region.
To learn more about The Langham, Jakarta and what
makes it stand out from the considerable amount of 5-star
competition in the city, Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com sat
down with
Gaylord Lamy, the hotel’s General Manager.
In this exclusive interview, filmed over Skype on
21 September 2021, Steven asks how the development plans and
design of the hotel changed knowing that COVID19 was here to stay,
what challenges the hotel
faced in recruiting the right calibre of staff, and what
technology the hotel has incorporated into the rooms and the
public areas.
We discuss the hotel’s soft opening, how many
rooms the hotel has made available to guests and when the remaining rooms are
scheduled to open.
We also talk about the hotel’s F&B outlets,
Gaylord tells us what guests can expect from The Langham’s Club
Lounge, how Tom’s by Tom Aikens has been received by Jakarta
residents and whether guests should be concerned about prices and
what type of food they can look forward to in the restaurant.
With notoriously bad traffic in the city, hotel
bars have often made a very large difference to a property’s
RevPAR and Occupancy Rates, especially with the all-important
corporate market, so Steven asks whether Tom’s also
doubles up as a bar and what other F&B outlets are scheduled to open in
the coming weeks and months.
As Gaylord enjoys running, you will also learn
what type of jogging routes are in the area and much, much more in
the video and podcast below.
The Langham, Jakarta – Exclusive Video
Interview with Gaylord Lamy, General Manager
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PODCAST
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Editor’s note:
As the above video interview was conducted over the internet, I
would like to apologise that the audio and visual quality are not
up to the same HD/UHD quality that they normally would be. Hopefully it won’t be too
long until we are once again conducting exclusive video interviews
in person, but for now we have to make do with what we have. Thank
you.
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