Siem Reap hotel
| country: | Cambodia |
| location: | Siem Reap |
| price: | From US $66 - US $105 per double room per night |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
description
Siem Reap hotel
Conveniently located in the heart of the old French Quarter, this hotel is less than nine kilometers from the World Heritage site of Angkor Wat.
This friendly 18 room boutique hotel also operates the Institute of Hospitality which is a vocational training facility funded from the operations of the hotel as well as from private individuals. The students are selected by various local NGO’s in consultation with the management of the school and are all young Cambodians at risk. The current 21 students are on a 9 month culinary course and other skills within the hotel industry.
When completed they will be able to find permanent employment within Cambodia. Besides paying no fees each student is paid a monthly stipend, uniforms, meals, study materials and a weekly supply of 4 kilograms of rice for their families.
Conveniently located in the heart of the old French Quarter, this hotel is less than nine kilometers from the World Heritage site of Angkor Wat.
This friendly 18 room boutique hotel also operates the Institute of Hospitality which is a vocational training facility funded from the operations of the hotel as well as from private individuals. The students are selected by various local NGO’s in consultation with the management of the school and are all young Cambodians at risk. The current 21 students are on a 9 month culinary course and other skills within the hotel industry.
When completed they will be able to find permanent employment within Cambodia. Besides paying no fees each student is paid a monthly stipend, uniforms, meals, study materials and a weekly supply of 4 kilograms of rice for their families.
rooms, food and facilities
Rooms are stylishly designed and feature all the modern conveniences such as: Superior rooms: Simple yet elegant with 2 queen-size beds and conveniently located by the pool or around the lobby and library area.
Deluxe rooms: Stylishly designed with a king-size bed and located by the pool and Spa area. Rain shower and large bathtub featuring a sliding window on to the bedroom complement the intimate and romantic experience.
The spa
The Spa features intimate treatment rooms for singles or couples including one with floral bath and steam room. Spa treatments available from professionally trained therapists include Thai Massage, Aromatherapy, Body Scrubs, Body Wraps, Facials, Floral and Herbal Baths and Healing Stones Massage. Our spa was voted as the 7th best Spa for Christmas 2005 by Asia Spa The restaurant
Our restaurant offers elegant indoor dining and casual yet upscale terrace dining while offering both Khmer and Western style cuisine. The menu is contemporary take on Asian and International styles utilizing local organic ingredients with quality imported products.
Other facilities
Institute of Hospitality how this holiday makes a difference
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We have deliberately made our programs such that the dignity and pride of the local people is never jeopardized. We demonstrate graphically just how much a little amount of money when used properly can start a family on the road to full sustainability. Whether the students at the Institute or the families that receive donations, they are taught to work towards their own betterment. We will fail students if they don’t learn their lessons and we will stop funding families if they don’t work towards improving their family’s life. An example, with a water well donation goes seeds. If they don’t clear and prepare the land properly, they will not get additional donations which will help them to work themselves out of poverty.
When visiting the villages we will only take a maximum of 5 visitors and restrict it to the actual donors so that there always is a personal connection. Because we are strict with the recipients to use the donations to work towards becoming self sustained, we stop them from adopting a ‘begging type’ of attitude.  We have hired from a local orphanage, a group of young dancers to perform weekly a series of traditional Khmer dances for our guests during the Khmer Dinner. Guests are given the opportunity to inter act with the students and in fact will often give separate donations to the orphanage after the dinner. We also offer our honeymoon guests to have a traditional Cambodian Monk Blessing ceremony while staying in the hotel. We have engaged local partners in the village to build water wells, houses, breeding piglets so that we can buy them for other poor families. We also purchase some local ingredients such as tomato, corn, sugar cane and chilly from the under-privileged who have benefited from our support program. This is to encourage them to produce more than what are needed for their family so that they can have extra income. We buy most of our hotel food locally and all furnishings are locally purchased. 42 out of 43 of our employees are local people, all of the hotel maintenance is carried out by local people and we encourage guests to support the local economy and support community development programmes. We work together with the Siem Reap branch of AusAid and provide them with our used cooking oil which they process into a kind of engine oil for generators and other machines to help farmers and poor people to have energy for their farming. Left over food from the restaurant, kitchen and staff canteen is used by the underprivileged to feed their pigs, cows, chicken, ducks and so on. We use organic produces such as vegetables, rice, coffee etc which are locally produced by the under-privileged, which also encourages less use of chemicals in framing. Community Support Projects As part of our ongoing commitment to the local community, we are pleased to offer an opportunity for you to participate in the local community support projects.  Build a Home US $1000 |
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