Some excerpts from the website of Hotel Tower Guyana that might be useful
The Hotel offers 78 comfortable
single and double rooms suites, a
24-hour caf service on weekends,
24-hour front
desk service,
pool,
gym,
direct dialing from your
room, full
business services (including
photocopying and
Internet services),
safety deposit boxes,
24-hour taxi service and three
restaurants (including a gourmet
restaurant) and two
bars, including an executive
bar. Spectrum
Poolside Restaurant. Spectrum
Poolside Bar. Diyaljee's Jewellery Gifts. The
Beauty Alcove (salon). Tower
Bureau Business Centre. Rainforest
Tours (
Tour Desk). We take special pride in designing and decorating our
rooms so as to offer you delightful ambience, maximum comfort and convenience. Our dcor is light and refreshing and each
room is equipped with its own
television with access to international
channels as well as
hair dryers,
irons, bottled water,
Internet ports, reading lamps, local magazines, hot and cold
showers, fresh supplies of towels and
toiletries. Our fully equipped
gym is open twenty-four hours to guest - providing fresh towels, bottled water, hot and cold
showers and diet and nutrition guides. Aerobics classes are held between 5pm and 6pm daily by trained instructors.
Massages by our trained masseur are also available upon request. The
swimming pool measures 60 feet 6 inches long by 26 feet 2 inches wide. Trained lifeguards are always available and swimming classes are conducted in the evenings and on Saturdays. Sun-tanning beds strategically placed around the
pool are perfect for soaking up the hot Caribbean sun. Special packages are available for families. Hotel Tower's
restaurants offer a wide range of International, West Indian and local dishes. We have become reknown in Guyana for offering a unique combination of tasty dishes. We are proud of this reputation and are committed to offering unforgettable meals at affordable costs. If staying at the Hotel, you cannot afford to miss
breakfast at the
cafe. Undoubtedly the most popular
breakfast place in Guyana, you can enjoy a wide range of dishes from a typical North American
breakfast to a local feast of pepperpot or saltfish with bakes. The Caf also serves
lunch, including a daily
buffet lunch and
dinner. A wide range of cakes, pastry and other baked goods are available fresh on a daily basis. The Caf is open from 6:30am to 11pm Sundays to Thursdays and twenty-four hours on Fridays and Saturdays. The Cazabon
Restaurant. One of Guyana's leading
cuisine restaurants, the Cazabon has its own
Bar,
cocktail area,
private dining room and open dining area catering for forty-five patrons in comfort and class. The menu of meat, seafood and other delicious items prepared with that uniquely Tower touch is served every evening from 6:30 to 11pm. The Cazabon
Restaurant offers a wide range of gourmet dishes in an elegant
air-conditioned setting. Dining in the Cazabon is dining at its finest - our Chefs will taunt and tease your taste buds by taking them all over the world in one evening. See more Photos here. The Spectrum
Poolside Restaurant. The Spectrum
Poolside is a more laid back atmosphere with a clear view of the Hotel's
pool. Our big-
screen TV keeps you abreast with up-to-the-minute news and the most popular sporting activities around the world. Troolie covered roof, this
Bar and
Restaurant has the appearance and ambience of a true oasis. Patrons can dine around the
pool or have a
drink against a backdrop of a mixture of live and recorded music. The Karaoke Band plays every Friday night from 6:30pm. The
Restaurant/
Bar is open from 10am until 11pm daily and serves a wide range of exotic dishes, including the popular Crab Back (Crab Meat served in a Crab Shell). The entire or a section of the
Restaurant/
Bar can be reserved for private functions. Capacity: Seated - 300 Seated and Standing - 800. The Spectrum
Poolside Bar. The
Poolside Bar is more suitable for larger groups and for the outdoor-type person. See above for more details (spectrum Restuarant). Fully
air-conditioned, spacious but yet quietly private
bar, the walls are adorned with charcoal paintings depicting Guyanese historical folklore. The Black Magic
Bar is ideal for the
Business Executive winding down at the end of a hard day to couples wishing to spend a quite evening. With capacity to hold approximately 100 persons, the
Bar is also the perfect location for private
cocktails and
parties. The
Bar opens from 4pm to 1am on weekdays and Sundays and from 1pm Saturdays. See more photos here. Hotel Tower hosts a number of special activities to ensure that our guests fully enjoy their stay with us. These include food festivals where we invite our guests to sample dishes of different nationalities in grand style, karaoke night, Sunday buffer
breakfast brunch, steel pan music, literary and art festivals, exhibitions and other forms of entertainment. The elegantly decorated
room with parquet floor of Guyana's exotic wood is a truly a multifunctional facility with its own
bar, this 55' by 50'
room is ideal for
conferences,
cocktails,
parties,
meetings and
dinners. The
Room has hardwood
ballroom floors and its name was inspired by scenes which are handpainted representing the life customs of Amerindians in the interior Rupununi savannahs of Guyana. The Rupununi
Room can hold between 150 and 200 persons. Capacity: Dining - 150
Meetings Conferences - 200
Cocktails - 300. The
room measures 48' by 16' and is ideal for smaller
meetings,
cocktail parties and private dining. The Hibiscus
Room is the smaller function
room primarily used for hosting
conferences and workshops. It's walls are covered with bright, refreshing paintings, typical of West Indian dcor. The
Room can hold up to forty persons. Capacity:
Meetings - 20-30
Cocktails - 50 Dining - 20
Situated on 167.5 acres of leased land from the Government of Guyana, the Resort offers a variety of sports such as
volleyball, cricket, swimming, miniature
golf, boating, table
tennis and shuffleboard. Beach
parties, sports filled week-ends with boating
trips and a wide variety of indoor and outdoor
games are very popular activities at the Resort. Hiking
trips and nature walks attract tourists and nature lovers. If you are looking for a more adventurous and natural setting, this is the place to be. On entering the Resort, two cabins are immediately visible, and just beyond them is the main building nestling in a clearing below the high-rise cabins. The two-storied main building can be accessed from one of its two decks at the top of the slope or below, behind the house. The lawns around the main building are well kept and serve partly as a miniature
golf course. There is also a swing over-looking the creek. The winding creek has a white sand beach seven hundred feet long. As you walk from the clubhouse towards the beach you discover some of the cabins cleverly nestled in the trees, so that they are slightly secluded from one another and from the main path. Alongside the creek, appropriate
furniture allows for sunbathing, picnicking and conversation. At the end of the beach, which widens significantly into an open area, a beach house, beach
furniture,
volleyball, and a large swimming area make this area the most popular when there are any outings at the resort. Emerald Tower can be a place to enjoy nature or a place to get away for some fun in the sun, whether engaging in sports or just relaxing in the beach.
Hotel Tower Limited is located in the heart of Georgetown with a splendid view overlooking the main shopping areas of the City. It boasts a panoramic view of national landmarks and other prominent buildings such as the
Bank of Guyana Building, the Cenotaph, City Hall, the National Museum, the National Library and major stores such as Courts Guyana Limited and Guyana Stores Limited. Map of Georgetown (Capital City). Click here to view maps. The Hotel itself is a magnificent structure - five stories tall, with two wings, seventy-eight (78)
rooms, a
swimming pool,
gym, caf, a
poolside restaurant, two
bars, a gourmet
restaurant, a
conference/
banquet room and a comfortable lobby area. In terms of physical resources, the Hotel is well endowed. It is the second largest Hotel in the country today. Facts at a Glance Full country name: Co-operative Republic of Guyana Area: 215,000 sq km (83,850 sq mi) Population: 825,000 Capital city: Georgetown (pop 200,000) People: 51% East Indian, 43% Afro-Guyanese, 4% Amerindian, 2% European Chinese Language: English (though most Guyanese speak a creole), also Hindi and Urdu Religion: 57% Christian, 33% Hindu, 9% Muslim Government: Democracy President: Bharrat Jagdeo. Environment Roughly the size of the UK, Guyana is bordered by Venezuela to the west, Suriname to the east, and overshadowed by Brazil to the south. Its northern coast abuts the Atlantic Ocean. The country's most prominent geological feature is the Guiana Shield, a vast crystalline upland north of the Ro Solimes, the Amazon's major
channel. From Mt Roraima (2772m/9092ft), on the Brazilian border, the shield recedes in steps all the way to the coast. Thick rainforest covers great chunks of the interior, though southwestern Guyana features extensive grassland. About 90% of the population lives on the agriculturally rich coastal plain. Guyana's varied and spectacular wildlife includes brightly-plumed birds and mammals such as tapirs, ocelots and monkeys. The equatorial climate results in high temperatures, tempered by cooling sea breezes. There are two rainy seasons: from May to mid-August and from mid-November to mid-January. History The aboriginal inhabitants of the Guyanese coast were Carib Indians who had driven the peaceful Arawak north and westwards into the Antilles. European settlement didn't occur until 1615, when the Dutch West Indian Company erected a fort and depot on the lower Essequibo River. The Dutch traded with the Indian peoples of the interior, and established riverside plantations - worked by African slaves - and sugar quickly became the dominant crop. While the coast remained firmly under Dutch control, the English were busy establishing sugar and tobacco plantations west of the Suriname River. Conflict between the two countries meant parts of the region changed hands a number of times, but by 1796 Britain had become the major power. In 1834, slavery was abolished forcing many plantations to close or look for another source of labor. The British solved the problem by shipping indentured workers from India. From 1846-1917, almost 250,000 laborers entered Guyana, dramatically transforming the country's demographic balance and laying the basis for persistent ethnic tensions. Guyana achieved independence in 1966 and four years later became a co-operative republic within the Commonwealth. The sugar industry was nationalized and the country's economic base diversified through production of rice and bauxite. However, Guyana's economy was in almost permanent recession up until 1990 as it slid out of mainstream engagement with the rest of the world and experienced the exodus of much of its educated class. Its domestic economy was not helped by border disputes with neighboring Venezuela and Suriname.