Tallink Group will take a major step with its new accommodation, conference and spa services and establishes a new chain of hotels, breaking away from its former brand connection with Best Western hotels.

Tallink Group already operates the Tallink City Hotel (formerly Best Western Hotel Tallink), opened in 2004 in central Tallinn, and the Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel will open near the port of Tallinn in spring 2007. Both hotels will be brought together under the new brand – Tallink Hotels.

Tallink City Hotel is a business class hotel with 332 rooms, conference halls and negotiation suites. In addition, the hotel has two restaurants, a nightclub, a beauty centre and the travel agency Tallink Travel Club. In April, a new up-to-date conference centre accommodating up to 244 people will be opened on the 2nd floor of the hotel.

The Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel will open in spring with 275 rooms, conference centre accommodating up to 263 people, a restaurant and a cigar bar. The spa has three pools, including one pool with a wet bar and one filled with salt water, part of which will be seasonally open as an outdoor pool. The hotel also has a Sauna World with seven different saunas and a Beauty Centre offering innovative treatments.

Both hotels belonging to the Tallink Hotels chain are administered by OÜ TLG Hotell, an affiliated company of Tallink Group. In the 2005/2006 financial year, Tallink City Hotel served more than 140,000 clients, 5,000 more than in the 2004/2005 financial year. The occupancy rate at the hotel in the previous financial year was 60% (a growth of 2%).

Further information:
Tallink Group, www.tallink.com