Holiday Inn Express at Diamond now set to open in November – PM

The Holiday Inn Express hotel at Diamond will now open in November, 2024. Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves made a tour of the Holiday hotel on Monday, September 16, and said he is impressed with the construction of the hotel which has some unique features when compared to other Holiday Inn hotels across the region.

Gonsalves said with the opening of the hotel, there will be more employment opportunities for persons trained in the hospitality sector, and there will also be spill-off effects in other sectors including entrepreneurship, agriculture and transport.

The 93-room Holiday Inn Express hotel is being built by the Trinidad company NH Construction. Along with the Cobblestone Inn, it will be the second state-owned hotel in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The project is funded through a grant from the CARICOM Development Fund, along with investment by the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines of approximately $52 million.

The Holiday Inn Express is located approximately eight miles outside of capital, Kingstown, and in close proximity to the Argyle International Airport, the Hospitality Training Institute, and the Sir Vincent Beache athletic stadium. Its initially scheduled opening was the end of April, 2023, but this was pushed back to April, 2024. (API)