I'm Green! Reval Hotels is One of The Greenest Hotels in Lithuania!

During 2009, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania organized the competition "I'm Green" for schools, municipalities, journalists and the business community. The main theme was different kinds of waste disposal and concern about the future. After years of building initiative on this topic, Reval Hotels in Lithunia was chosen as one of the greenest companies in the country. If you are concerned about environmental changes and want to live the green way, you can be sure that Reval Hotels is similarly concerned and does all it can to protect nature and the environment.

About Reval Hotel Lietuva

Reval Hotel Lietuva is located in the centre of Vilnius, on the banks of the Neris River. Reval Hotel Lietuve is not only a great landmark of Vilnius city, it is also the largest hotel, with a restaurant, conference and event centre, two bars, a casino, a beauty salon and a fitness centre.

Reval Hotel Lietuva has 291 guestrooms and suites including 225 single/double standards, 62 executive, 3 suites and presidential suite. Designed in a modern Scandinavian style, each is elegantly furnished.

Why Stay @Reval Hotel Lietuva

Skybar – the best panoramic view of the city from the 22nd floor
Great location in the city centre; the business and cultural hub; easy access by road and plenty of parking
Free and easy WiFi internet access throughout the hotel
View – spectacular views over the Old Town
Lively hotel
Green key hotel –from bicyclerent to protecting the environment
Single location – wide range of services

Celebrate New Year in Vilnius! The Best Bar with the Best View!

The New Year' Party to outshine all others starts at 8 p.m in the Skybar when our Master of Ceremonies officially launches the event. Our in-house DJ will build up the atmosphere - moving from cool sounds to accompany your favorite cocktails and food from a splendid buffet created just for this one night, before enticing everyone onto the dance floor, and then taking you through to the early hours with the feel good party beat perfect for that special New Year's atmosphere.



New Year’s Eve package at the Skybar includes:

• Welcome drink
• Fabulous buffet from 8 p.m. till 2 a.m.
• Glass of sparkling wine at midnight
• Dessert and coffee from 10.30 p.m.
• Live entertainment

Evening starts at 8 p.m.

Chill out until 5 p.m.

Pricing

LTL 390 for a seat by the window

LTL 350 for any of the rest

10 % discount for First Clients

Reval Hotels appoints Juha Mähönen as Regional Director, Estonia & St. Petersburg, Russia

The leading hotel chain in the Baltic countries, Reval Hotels, has appointed its Country Manager for Lithuania, Mr. Juha Mähönen on a position of Regional Director, Estonia & St. Petersburg. In this newly created position Mr. Mähönen also takes the responsibilities as General Manager of Reval Hotel Group AS, chain’s subsidiary based in Tallinn, Estonia, with 3 hotels, and the organization in the newly opened Reval Hotel Sonya in St. Petersburg, Russia, will also report to him. Mr Mähönen will start in the new position on January 18th, 2010.

“We are once more happy to be able to promote someone from within our organization”, says Mr. Heikki Vanhanen, CEO of Reval Hotels; “Juha has been doing a tremendous work in Lithuania, and we all are excited about his new position. With his enthusiasm and innovation, proven skills of re-organizing and streamlining but conscious on quality of services, Juha is the right person for this new highly demanding job.”

Juha Mähönen has been working within hotel industry in his native Finland and abroad since 1982, and joined Reval Hotels in 2002 to open Reval Hotel Lietuva in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently he manages two Reval Hotels - one in Vilnius and one in Kaunas – and two economy class Reval Inns in Vilnius and in Klaipeda. “During the time I have spent in Lithuania our team has achieved many goals and reached new heights. Although our successes have been very rewarding for me, I felt it was time to move on to new challenges”, says Juha Mähönen. “Most of all I will be missing the people – customers and colleagues – in Lithuania, but same time look forward to make new friends in Estonia and Russia.”

Juha Mähönen has an Executive MBA from Haaga University of Applied Sciences, Finland and in 2005 he complemented the education with Hotel Management program in Cornell University in Ithaca, USA.

Mr. Mähönen is an active and visible member of many organizations in Vilnius, such as the Finnish Guild and Chaîne des Rôtisseurs. Earlier this year Mr Mähönen was invited to Councillor of EHMA, European Hotel Managers Association, being the National delegate for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russian Federation and Sweden. Mr Mähönen is married and is a father of two children. He enjoys travelling, sports, reading and writing.

Reval Hotels is the leading hotel chain in the Baltic countries, operating eight full-service, first-class hotels located in the major Baltic cities: three in Tallinn, Estonia, three in Riga, Latvia, one in Vilnius and one in Kaunas, Lithuania. A new hotel, Reval Hotel Sonya opened its doors in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 2009.

Reval Hotels is owned by the Norwegian real estate investment company Linstow AS, owned by AWILHELMSEN AS, major shareholder of the world’s second largest cruise shipping company Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

More information:

Heikki Vanhanen
CEO, Reval Hotels
heikki.vanhanen@revalhotels.com
Mob +371 2659 8688

Juha Mähönen

Regional Director,

Estonia & St. Petersburg (from 18.1.2010)

juha.mahonen@revalhotels.com

Mob +370 6556 4300

Reval Hotel Sonya - The Newest Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia

Challenging the Russian hotel market, Baltic chain Reval Hotels uses a bold approach to attract Russian and foreign travelers coming to St. Petersburg. Opening on November 26th, 2009, new Reval Hotel Sonya is an unusual hotel experience inspired by ”Crime & Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.



”Crime & Punishment” has been called the most St. Petersburg of all novels and the perfect guide to this fascinating city; a journey from chaos, confusion and selfishness to hope, love and compassion. Being a source of inspiration for countless authors, artists and directors through the years, it is now the main influence for Reval’s first hotel in Russia.

”Being newcomers on the Russian hotel market we decide to create a Russian hotel with a strong connection to the city of St. Petersburg and its heritage” says Heikki Vanhanen, CEO of Reval Hotels. ”We wanted Reval Hotel Sonya to be like an exciting story; intriguing and unpredictable, surprising and inspiring, and a place full of nuances.”

Centrally located in St. Petersburg, this is a beautifully designed hotel where the influences from Dostoevsky’s tale are sometimes clearly, sometimes more subtly on display. Furniture, colors, patterns, art and objects have been chosen carefully to enhance the Russian atmosphere and to generate a more inspiring, lively and creative ambience.

The familiar Reval Hotels’ room types — Standard, Reval, Executive, and Suite — have been given a new concept and design in the new Reval Hotel Sonya. The 173 guest rooms are divided into four categories ”Conscience”, ”Grace”, ”Rebirth” and ”Ego”. As ”Conscience” represents the standard room level, the ”Ego” suite has been inspired by Raskolnikov’s wish to become ”a Napoleon” who exists at his own superior level.

Furthermore, every guest room has its own unique door sign with a certain sentence from a specific part of ”Crime & Punishment” in Russian and English— prompting guests to spend just a little time in contemplation of the message of a Russian literary classic.

On the first floor of the hotel, the stylish restaurant and bar “Metamorfos” invites guests to experience Russian and European cuisine, complete with striking contrasts and pleasant surprises. The menu is created in a book format — its prologue, chapters and epilogue, present dishes with fascinating stories. Studying the menu will inform diners about the 19th century, the era of Dostoevsky, and of Rodion Raskolnikov’s Saint Petersburg. Guests will discover much about Dostoevsky’s travels to Europe, and also about the development of his mind and the inner transformation of his soul. The regeneration of the soul is expressed in everything: from the variety of materials used, in the formation of the interior, the creative embodiment of recipes from modern Russian cuisine, to the surprising combinations of ingredients and flavors.

This game of contrasts serves only one purpose: to make a stay at the Reval Hotel Sonya a delight and create a memorable impression of a great city. “Reval Hotel Sonya—one of the most exciting projects we’ve been involved in,” says Erik Nissen Johansen, the creative director of the Swedish architects and identity consultants Stylt Trampoli. “Thanks to the literary heritage exemplified by the Russian writer, this hotel has a special aura, that gives a real taste of the destination. ‘Transformation’ is an important theme of the famous work by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and it is this theme that inspired the design of the Reval Hotel Sonya.

”This is not another mainstream hotel you might find anywhere in the world,” says General Manager Juris Zudovs. ”Spicing it up with something unexpected yet familiar, we created an exceptional atmosphere and found a unique position on the city’s hotel market”.

Reval Hotel Sonya:

• Size of Building: 8200 m2
• Room rates: from 4140 Roubles, excluding breakfast.
• Special offer for Fall and Winter 2009-2010: Two for one offer available Friday to Monday at 7000 roubles, including 18% VAT, excluding breakfast.

About Reval Hotels

The Reval hotel group is the leading hotel chain in the Baltic countries, operating nine full-service, first-class Reval Hotels located in the major Baltic cities: three in Tallinn, Estonia, three in Riga, Latvia, one in Vilnius, one in Kaunas, Lithuania. Reval Hotel Sonya is the groups’ first hotel in Russia.

Reval Hotels is owned by the Norwegian real estate investment company Linstow AS, owned by AWILHELMSEN AS, major shareholder of the world’s second largest cruise shipping company Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

For further information please contact:
Juris Zudovs, Reval Hotel Sonya, General Manager
Juris.Zudovs@revalhotels.com, tel. +79219456626