• Friday, July 26, 2024
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Lodging at a discount

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  In case you have forgotten, hotel accommodation is no longer as expensive as it was the last time you travelled to Calabar and other destinations in Cross River State. It is now very affordable and even with discount to appreciate your stay.

All you need do is log on to www.experiencecrossriver.com and discover the many hotels with the right facilities and the kind of services you want. The portal simplifies booking and marketing of hospitality offerings in the state. It provides a platform that brings airlines, hotels, car hire and tour operators together with a special discounted rate on services, up to 50 percent.

At the click of the mouse, an array of hotels and the discount they are willing to offer prop up. If you do that, you get right there at the website between 10-20 percent discount from the hotel of your choice. The hotels include Obudu Mountain Resort, Tinapa Lakeside Hotel, Jorany Hotel, Five Two Zero Hotel, Pearl Suites Hotels, Freemans Hotel, Hotel Boston, among others.

While you enjoy the discount, the portal also offers other travel and hospitality services that are aimed at making travelling and accommodation seamless and an experience to visitors.

As you book online, the portal opens other related services such as car hire, luxurious chauffeur, flight booking and tours to destinations across the state.

Of course, with ‘Experience Cross River’ portal, there is no need to suspect that you are over-paying for a service or shortchanged because you get what you book for, and the participating hotels and other hospitality service providers involved in the business are competent and committed to its success.

One of the aims of the portal is to ensure an all-year round inflow of visitors to the state, which means more guests to warm hotel beds, so as to increase tourism and hospitality business, grow competence and improve the standard of living in the state.

Beyond that, the private sector initiator of the project seeks to integrate the tourism products available in the state as a way of simplifying booking and marketing hotel business in a uniform and seamless way.

Wherever you are coming from in Nigeria to the state, Arik Air and Aero, partner airlines in the experience Cross River project, will fly you, while Remlords Car Hire Services and Tours drives you from the airport to your destinations across the state.

Aside from this platform created to bind domestic and international tourists, visitors and investors to generate economic activities, the state hospitality private sector led by Remlords and Cross River State Hotelier Association assures that www.experiencecrossriver.com will sustain the state’s achievements in the tourism sector and also expand the market reach, accessibility and patronage. The ‘Experience Cross River’ portal is a comprehensive electronic pleasure platform that displays the rich tourism potentialities and allied products and services of Cross River State to individuals, groups as well as corporate organisations for ease of access. Conceptualised by the Remlords Group, the tourism innovation is a product that revolves round travels, events, tours, hotels and car hire services, completing the perfect circle of business, pleasure and fulfilling relaxation.

So, why not book ahead and check in online at the portal to get the best and save some money?

 

OBINNA EMELIKE