100,000 Room Nights Free At Laguna Phuket

[george]

Laguna Phuket promo: 100,000 room nights free!

CHERNG TALAY, PHUKET: -- Laguna Phuket is giving away 100,000 complimentary room nights at its six resort hotels for guests who book online in March.

The “100,000 Smiles in Laguna Phuket” promotion is being run in co-operation with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), which will help to market the initiative.

TAT Governor Phornsiri Manoharn and Laguna Phuket Managing Director Michael Ayling announced details of the giveaway at a press conference at TAT headquarters in Bangkok on Wednesday.

The promotion represents a fightback for Laguna Phuket in the face of a tougher economic climate, coupled with a staff protest that caused widespread disruption to resort operations earlier this month.

Between February 6 and 9, a small but noisy number of employees and other activists, angry over reduced bonuses and frozen salaries, blockaded access routes to the complex, preventing holidaymakers from getting in and out.

TAT governor Ms Phornsiri Manoharn said, “In these challenging times everyone in Thailand’s tourism industry must work hard together and help each other to restore our declining tourism numbers. We really hope that this promotion brings 100,000 smiling faces to visit Thailand.”

From March 1 to 31, customers booking at the Banyan Tree Phuket, Sheraton Grande Laguna, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, Laguna Beach Resort, Laguna Phuket Holiday Residences or Laguna Holiday Club Phuket Resort for stays from March 15 to December 15 will receive one complimentary night’s stay on a consecutive night.

A minimum of two paid nights are required for bookings at the Sheraton Grande Laguna during April, July, August, October, November and December.

The Allamanda Laguna Phuket resort is not participating in the promotion.

The initiative, which coincides with the launch of a redesigned Laguna Phuket website, aims to help drive traffic to the new site as well as generate bookings for the upcoming low season.

Members of the public can visit http://www.lagunaphuket.com/100,000-smiles and http://www.tourismthailand.org/thailandsuperdeal to take advantage of the offer.

-- Phuket Gazette 2009-03-01

[alanmorison]

HOPEFUL signs of life are flashing in the chasm of Phuket's low season, with early bookings for April and onwards at some resorts now rivalling those at the same time last year. The encouraging beacon flashes in the dark come amid continuing pain.

At the big end of town, the management at Laguna Phuket is taking a pay cut . . . and the Banyan Tree group has announced a substantial drop in profit for Q4 2008. Laguna Phuket, as Phuketwan reported in detail on October 30 last year, is also putting on hold the Angsana resort and other major projects, including Laguna Vietnam.

Details at Phuketwan: http://phuketwan.com/tourism/laguna-chiefs...-booking-boost/

Edited March 1, 2009 by alanmorison

[ovenman]

Free nights. This is a scam. Buy one night at the full rack rack, they'll give you a night for free. It's a 50% discount at best. This "deal" has already been discussed here: Luguna offer

[FarangCravings]

Free nights. This is a scam. Buy one night at the full rack rack, they'll give you a night for free. It's a 50% discount at best. This "deal" has already been discussed here: Luguna offer

Som nom nah LAGUNA

I worked for this company a while back and they suck and treat there staff like Shiit also when you leave they never pay you what they owe you this promotion is a way to get people in and then they will hit them up for timeshare

Bout time they realized that there staff are the ones that make them money and they need to be treated fairly finally the staff stuck together and hit them where it hurt there pocket book