from the desk of Clifford Weiner – cliffwaterford
London, 25 February 2008
“After 3 years and a few month in London (since 2 January 2005) I am moving on for a new challenge, this time in the hotter climates of Dubai. London was a unique experience, and the best part was meeting and working with so many wonderful and truly inspiring people! My last day at InterContinental London was 29 February and I will be starting in Dubai on 6 April. During the last 3 years in London I went from closing down the InterContinental, followed by an £80 Mio. refurbishment to reopening a new flagship hotel for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts in November 2006, the new InterContinental London Park Lane.
Since one opening is not enough, I joined Kerzner International (Atlantis, One & Only Resorts, Sun City) where I will be part of an amazing pre opening team of passionate, entrepreneurial and experienced people. I was appointed as Director, Food & Beverage for the opening of the Atlantis, The Palm – Dubai hotel and will be in charge of the Royal Towers section of the resort. Opening is scheduled for September 2008.
The property is rising in Dubai from the coastline of the largest man-made island in the world, the Palm Jumeirah. Positioned as the flagship property it is, situated at the apex of the Palm Jumeirah’s Crescent, Atlantis, The Palm. The resort will offer more than 1,500 guest accommodations at the Royal Towers, and over 39 Food & Beverage outlets. Here are 2 interesting links to follow; www.atlantisthepalm.com and www.thepalm.ae
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was part of the hugely successful opening of InterContinental London and supported me as great guest, friends, colleagues and business partners. To get updated on new contat details, I am on facebook as cliffwaterford.
Best wishes.”
Our IT Manager is German and his name is Juergen A., von L.! A foodie interview has to follow immediately!! He has created a blog for our hotel on blogger! Check this out! I hope many people will contribute on it and wish you all the best of success with your first posts, and keep it going. http://iclpl.blogspot.com/
Thanks for tagging me!
Edited 22 March 2008: Well, the blog died on 9 May 2007 with some confused content and because some people are sleeping. Juergen is moving to Germany to oversee 2 hotels, Cologne and Dusseldorf and the foodie interivew has still not been completetd. I will follow up, lets see what happens. Bis bald, tschuess.
On September 7 , 2006 we boxed up our pre opening office stuff in Hammersmith and moved back to Park Lane. The hotel was to open in exactly 2 month. I was based in the pre opening offices for nearly 1 year. We moved office once from the left to the right side of the street. The office, a big open plan place with about 20 people working was actualy quite nice once one got used to the new environement. We were fed with Pret a Manger sandwiches for 1 year, better then nothing, but I have had enough of that for now…
The best thing in Hammersmith is deffinitly Cafe Brera. Ouf offices were in the same building, so often I would quickly go down, 4 or more times a day, to grab a espresso macchiato. The boss there is a realy funny chap, he makes the perfect coffee but has no clue how to teach his staff to do it the same way. So during the year I ended up teaching them how to make the espresso macchiato I like.
