Tune Hotels Set Open Second Thai Property in Pattaya

TUNE HOTELS SET TO OPEN SECOND THAI PROPERTY IN PATTAYA
Opening promotion with 199 baht rooms

A twin room at Tune Hotel Pattaya. More pics are available at www.flickr.com/tunehotels.

The award-winning value hotel brand taking Asia by storm – Tune Hotels – will swing open the doors of its latest property when the 192-room Tune Hotel Pattaya starts receiving its first guests on 17 February.

To celebrate, Tune Hotels is offering guests booking online through www.tunehotels.com rooms at amazing rates that start from just 199 baht per night. The rooms are open for sale between 10-17 February 2012 for travellers booking stays in Tune Hotel Pattaya from 17 February up to 5 April 2012.

Including Pattaya, Tune Hotels now operates 16 hotels globally – ten in Malaysia; two in Bali, Indonesia; two in Thailand and two in London, England. Adding to the list soon will be three locations in the Philippines – Angeles City (10 Feb 2012), Cebu City (24 Feb 2012) and Ermita, Manila (9 March 2012). Rooms at these hotels are now available for booking at www.tunehotels.com.

Tune Hotels’ first property in Thailand opened in Hat Yai in December 2011. It has become hugely popular amongst tourists and travellers that it is ranked as the number one hotel in the southern Thai city by the global travel website TripAdvisor.

Group CEO of Tune Hotels, Mark Lankester says: “The opening of Tune Hotel Pattaya marks a crucial point of Tune Hotels’ expansion in Thailand. It verifies our strong commitment towards Thailand and its tourism industry. This follows the successful opening of Tune Hotel Hat Yai, and with more Tune Hotels coming up in Thailand we are proud to be playing an even bigger role.”

Adding to its 16 properties currently will be another 30 hotels scheduled for opening this year in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the UK.

Tune Hotels has collaborated with the Bangkok-based Red Planet Hotels for the development of Tune Hotels in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Red Planet Hotels CEO Tim Hansing said: “Tune Hotel Pattaya will be one of the busiest hotels in the network, so we don’t expect these great promo rates to be available for long but there will be more chances for travellers who love the brand to take advantage more great value rates across the network as the year goes on.”

Tune Hotel Pattaya is located on the beach resort’s bustling Second Road, just minutes from the beach, shopping, entertainment and nightlife. Just a 90-minute drive from Bangkok’s international airport, the hotel is already proving popular with Thai and international tourists who want a comfortable, clean, safe and secure hotel to stay in before enjoying all that Pattaya has to offer.

Tune Hotels has successfully pioneered a branded value hotel brand with the concept of pay-as-you-use that has become hugely popular amongst travelers from across the world. Under the concept, guests only pay for room rates with the option of adding on other amenities like towels & toiletries, air-conditioning, in-room wifi and satellite TV service at selected hotels. Tune Hotels has received over three million guests since the opening of its first hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007.

Apart from enjoying great value, great savings at Tune Hotels, guests can also enhance their benefits and privileges by becoming a member of the BIG loyalty programme, of which Tune Hotels is a partner. BIG is a global loyalty programme that allows card members to accumulate points when travelling and shopping with BIG partners worldwide, and redeem the accumulated points for exciting rewards including flight seats on the world’s best low cost carrier, AirAsia. More information on BIG is available at www.tune2big.com.

For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotelsTH and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotelsTH.

For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com/thailand.

About Tune Hotels
Tune Hotels is part of the lifestyle business conglomerate Tune Group that was founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Group seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle offering ranging from value hotel stays, personal finance solutions and affordable prepaid mobile services. Tune Group of Companies are Tune Air, Tune Hotels, Tune Money, Tune Talk, Tune Box, Tune Studios, Tune Live and, Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR).

Since Tune Hotels was first launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2007, over 3 million guests have stayed in its properties spread across Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. It now has 16 hotels located in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, KLIA-LCCT Airport, Penang, Johor Bahru, Kota Damansara, Bintulu, Kota Bharu and Kulim in Malaysia; Kuta and Legian in Bali, Indonesia; Westminster and Liverpool Street in London, England; and Hat Yai and Pattaya in Thailand.

All Tune Hotels feature space-efficient, streamlined rooms focusing on high-quality basics: 5-star bed, powerful hot showers and energy-saving fans. The strategically located hotels provide housekeeping services, electronic keycard access into rooms, CCTV surveillance, and prohibits access into the main lobby without a keycard past midnight. Through Tune Hotels’ pay-as-you-use system of add-on WiFi, TV, laundered towels and other energy-consuming facilities and amenities, Tune Hotels aims to help guests conserve both their funds as well as the earth’s resources.

Tune Hotels is a part of Tune Group, the principal partner of the Premier League’s Professional Games Match Officials (PGMO) & the BIG Global Loyalty Programme.

About Red Planet Hotels Limited
Red Planet Hotels Limited (RPHL) was formed in 2010 and is a privately owned regional hotel investment company focused on Asia’s emerging markets by developing a portfolio of budget hotels in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Bangladesh.

RPHL owns the hotels it operates and they are all managed under a franchise agreement with Tune Hotels and was formed with a vision to capture the growth in the worldwide limited-service hotel market, supported by the growth in budget airlines and the robust economy of the ASEAN region and China.

Headquartered in Bangkok, RPHL now has 3,126 Tune Hotel rooms under development.