Brunei’s Empire Hotel & Country Club Voted ‘Best Host Venue’ on Asian Golf Tour
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Brunei’s Empire Hotel & Country Club Voted ‘Best Host Venue’ on Asian Golf Tour
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Brunei 's palatial Empire Hotel & Country Club has been voted ‘Best Host Venue' by the region's top golfers on the 2005 Asian Tour.
The resort topped a poll of 28 other venues on its debut as a host of the Asia 's premier professional golf tournament.
Key voting criteria for the 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf course overlooking the South China Sea were the course, facilities, caddies and staff.
Australian Terry Pilkadaris, who won the inaugural Brunei Golf Open, said: “This is the best place, golf course and hotel wise, that we've been too. It's beautiful.”
The Asian Tour returns to The Empire Hotel & Country Club in 2006, on August 24-27.
General Manager Ms Anne Busfield said: “We are delighted the Asian Tour players enjoyed their visit and look forward to welcoming them back in 2006.”
Another recent sporting celebrity guest, Formula One racing driver Jenson Button, also named The Empire Hotel & Country Club as his favourite hotel in the world in an interview.
Designed by one of the world's golfing greats, Brunei 's top golf course is rated among the best in Asia with lush, scenic fairways catering for golfers at every level. The par 71 championship is considered a "thinker's" challenge with tight fairways and fast greens skirted by jungle, cavernous ravines and a lot of water.
Floodlights allow night play on 18 holes and an abundance of wildlife constantly surprises the uninitiated. It is not uncommon to spot a troupe of monkeys strolling across the fairway, see a majestic Brahminy kite soaring above or hear the distinct call of the endangered hornbill.
Opened in 2000 on the doorstep of one of the oldest rainforests in Southeast Asia , The Empire Hotel & Country Club is a truly outstanding beach resort – an architectural masterpiece exuding grandeur and luxury with superb country club facilities rivaling the best anywhere.
One of the world's largest resorts, The Empire Hotel & Country Club features 360 spacious guestrooms and 63 lavish suites and private villas set in a 180-hectare (445-acre) tropical garden estate.
As Brunei 's premier hotel, The Empire Hotel & Country Club also enjoys a prestigious profile hosting royal and state visitors to the Sultanate of Brunei, with former US President Bill Clinton and Chinese premier Hu Jintao among its numerous VIP guests.
The resort has been collecting regional and international awards since it opened and was voted ‘Best New Resort' by Travel Trade Gazette Asia in 2001. TTG Asia subsequently named The Empire in as ‘Best Independent Hotel', and in 2004 and 2005 as the region's ‘Best Resort Hotel'.
Competing on the global stage in the prestigious World Travel Awards, The Empire Hotel & Country Club has been named ‘Asia's Leading Resort', ‘Brunei's Leading Hotel', ‘Asia's Leading Golf Resort' and, for three consecutive years, the ‘World's Leading Presidential Suite' for its breathtaking Emperor Suite, which is one of the world's largest at 666 sq m and has its own private indoor swimming pool and self-contained cinema.
With impeccable credentials for world-class meetings, conferences and exhibitions, the resort is also emerging as a leading Asian venue for the MICE market, including the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF), Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) CEO Summit and the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Meeting.
For executive travellers, the hotel has an exclusive E-Club, and for families an E Kids Club keeps children entertained all day.
Unique in Asia , the resort has its own state of the art theatre for live concerts and performances and its own movie theater screening latest international films daily.
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