| Settling in Bangladesh |
Chapter 8 |
Hotels and Guest Houses |
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HOTELS Special rates are available for UN staff, if reservations are made through the office. Major credit cards are accepted. Pan Pacific
Sonargaon Hotel Rates (please add 12% service charge, 15% VAT and 5% supplementary duty)
The public areas are elegant with three restaurants, poolside cafe and bar, jazz bar, lobby lounge, pastry shop and 24 hour room service. Equipped with outdoor swimmingpool, tennis and squash courts, health club and sauna, a business centre, nine meeting rooms, laundry and dry cleaning, shopping arcade, banks and ATMs, travel agent, airline offices, limousine service, physician and baby-sitters. Dhaka Sheraton
Hotel Rates (please add 12% service charge, 15% VAT and 5% supplementary duty)
Dhaka Sheraton has attractive gounds and backs onto a large park (Ramna Park). The hotel has a lobby cafe, poolside cafe, two restaurants, an outdoor swimming pool, a health club, jacuzzi, sauna, steambath, tennis courts, table tennis table, business centre, meeting and banquet facilities, physician, shopping arcade, airline offices, travel agent, limousine service, banks, hairdresser, and book shop. Tropical Inn Guest
House Rates include VAT, service charge and supplementary duty, breakfast, laundry and local telephone calls.
A small guest house with 20 rooms, air-conditioned, with bathroom, refrigerator, telephone and satellite TV, a restaurant and a small computer room with email facilities. Clean and friendly, rates are negotiable for long term guests. Other UN favourites not published in the present edition are:
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