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This four-star hotel is centrally located and adequately equipped, offering banqueting and conference facilities—albeit a little shabby. It’s reasonably priced for extended, business-related stays.
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This five-star hotel is considered an ideal place to stay for business travellers because it offers superior equipment, facilities and excellent service. Located 3kms from the airport and 15 minutes from the city centre, the Crowne Plaza has all the usual executive extras (including in-room fax) plus extensive sports and leisure facilities. The café in the lobby is a buzzing meeting place for locals. It has meeting rooms for up to 1,000.
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Sitting behind the InterContinental and 15 minutes from the sea front, this apartment mini-block—three floors high and one-anda- half years old—is younger than most of the competition on this street. It’s also just 15 minutes from the airport.
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Four Points Kuwait, the latest addition to the main Sheraton Kuwait Complex, offers complimentary round-trip transportation and 24-desk and hotel facilities. There is one meeting room that can accommodate up to 70 people. The hotel can also accommodate 48 people in a classroom set-up, 90 for a reception and 48 for a lunch/dinner.
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Located 20 minutes from Kuwait City and the airport, this hotel resort is close to Ahmadi, the site of the Kuwait Oil Company headquarters. The hotel is spread over a large area along the coast. It caters fully to all executive needs, sporting a state-of-the art business centre.
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The new JW Marriott has taken over the site of the former Le Meridien Kuwait, right in the middle of the business and financial area, and succeeded in winning the Business Traveller Hotel of the year award for 2004. Rooms and suites have all been refurbished with many technical extras. The Executive Club floor is on a par with the best, while the Japanese restaurant Kei is particularly popular for business lunches. The hotel offers 10 meeting rooms for up to 1,500 people. There is a health club, indoor pool, Jacuzzi and steam bath.
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Formerly The Ritz, Le Meridien boasts a glass front overlooking the sea, giving the lobby a bright and airy aspect and complemented by stylish furnishing. Most guestrooms have beautiful clear views over the Gulf towards the Kuwait Towers. All are larger than the norm and feature most of the facilities a business traveller would expect. It offers meeting rooms for up to 50.
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This five-star deluxe hotel offers premium business facilities and meeting rooms. Built in 2003, Le Meridien Tower Kuwait is a new hotel with 70 Art and Tech rooms, all featuring plasma screen TVs, power showers, DVD, VCR, CD, interactive TV and high-speed internet access. It’s in an ideal location in the heart of the business district and only 15 minutes from Kuwait International Airport. The hotel offers live cooking shows in the restaurant serving international specialities.
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This modest but well-located cluster of apartments offers a quiet habitat. It’s in a prime location, very close to the sea and near the city centre and its restaurants. The large Salmina supermarket, which is an experience in itself, is also a short walk away.
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Lively and courteous staff will try to do anything to please you and make your stay as worry-free as possible. They’re always on hand to give advice or travel tips. This is one of the best rental apartment choices in the city.
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The Mövenpick Hotel Kuwait opened early in 2003. It’s located in Shuwaikh Bay on the waterfront, not too far from the airport and the city centre. Built around a waterfall and pool feature surrounded by palm trees, and lawns reaching down to the lagoon, most rooms have either a balcony looking on to the lagoon or a patio with access to the lagoon and gardens. It offers a meeting room for 30.
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This five-star beach-front hotel offers adequate business facilities, with meeting rooms for up to 200 attendees. It is only 15 minutes from the city centre and 12 minutes from the airport. Guestrooms are either Oriental or Nordic and all have internet access via interactive TV. The hotel has two authentic dhows in dry dock in the grounds: Al Hashemi, the biggest dhow in the world, with a reception capacity of 1,000 persons, and Al Boom, now a successful steak and seafood restaurant. Water sports and a recreation club (including a private beach) make the place popular with visitors and European residents. It offers 12 meeting rooms for up to 650.
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The first boutique hotel in Kuwait is very different to other hotels in the city. It feels like a European hotel with Arabic charm and service. Most of the rooms are suites and are lavish and grandiose, but perhaps a little too elaborate in design. The meeting room is located on the 7th floor and accommodates 15 persons.
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Close to the Kuwait Towers, three minutes from the business district and 15 minutes from the airport, Safir International is perfectly positioned. Banquet halls and the two dedicated executive floors with butler service present great locations to entertain and be entertained with anything up to 700 persons. Be sure to ask for a room with a balcony and Gulf view—and don’t miss out on the takeaway patisserie.
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While this Sheraton is handy for the business and financial districts as a leading conference venue, it also has all the luxuries of a top-notch traditional hotel. All guestrooms are fully equipped for business guests, while the almost ostentatious five floors of St Regis Tower rooms deliver such executive glitz as a Jacuzzi, butler service and Louis XIV furniture. Dining options range from Iranian to classic English tea. The roof-top Bukhara restaurant serves classy Indian meals with a great view over the city. The hotel offers meeting rooms for up to 2,000 and has a health club, golf simulator and squash facilities.
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Situated in the heart of the banking district, the Oasis is a small, functional, well-run hotel that sees plenty of repeat business. As with the hotel in general, guestrooms are clean, functional and compact. The Tipu Sultan Restaurant serves Indian, Arabic and international cuisine, but is particularly recommended for its Indian dishes. Styled after the palaces of Rajastan, the restaurant has beaten metal panels and a wooden ceiling. Parking can be difficult for those not arriving by taxi or hotel transport. There is a meeting room for up to 10.
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