With an awesome Lagoon view and easy access to the water, Radisson Blu Anchorage is obviously the address for leisure seekers, amid other world-class facilities for unique unwinding.
Yet, the 170-room hotel and flagship property of the Radisson Hotel Group in Nigeria, is also a hub for the business and corporate traveller.
From well-equipped business lounges, meeting facilities, fast wifi to professional handlers, the focus on the corporate clientele has marked the Victoria Island, Lagos-based Radisson Blu Anchorage as a top business hotel in Nigeria.
Top among such innovations for the business and corporate clientele is an exclusive business lounge, which offers secluded working area with the requisite facilities and appropriate connectivity to augment the office experience for the avid business traveler.
Set on the executive floor, the lounge, which was opened after a massive renovation, has enabled the hotel to cash in on the virtual work model that peaked during the pandemic and has since become a trend globally. From working tools, enabling environment to fast wifi, the lounge is worth visiting as an extended office or work from home station.
As expected, the innovative offerings have been luring corporate guests and business travelers to the hotel’s friendly environment, while also enabling it to consolidate on its position as a leading business hotel in Lagos and Nigeria.
The growing number of guests that throng the hotel while on business trips, also testifies to the huge investment by the owners to ensure that corporate guests enjoy the same office convenience and efficiency at the business lounge.
Credit goes to AJ5 Architects, a leading South African building consulting firm, which has handled several high-end projects within the African continent, for turning the lounge into a mini office, amid convenience that is synonymous with the Radisson Hotel Group brand.
In addition to its friendly environment and enabling facilities, the lounge offers guests access to food and drinks throughout the day, inclusive of breakfast, lunch and dinner.
It is open to guests in the executive rooms and the suites, amid complimentary wifi, while other guests who want a piece of it, can pay a day pass for access.
Apart from the business lounge, the hotel also has other offerings that combine to stand it out as a business hotel.
The corporate guests also call the hotel home because of the meeting facilities that enable corporate engagements, from meetings, workshops, seminars and to training.
Starting with the Idera Hall, which can serve about 200 guests, and its largest meeting offering, the hotel offers other meeting room categories for 15 to 20 and up to 50 guests.
There are also audio and visual facilities, especially video conferencing equipment across all the meeting rooms.
Beyond the meeting rooms, the corporate and business traveler also enjoy flexible check-in and check-out time for extra convenience, while the hotel relies on its cordial relationships with airlines and diplomatic agencies to ensure that everything needed to support a friendly business environment is in place.
Of course, most business guests care more about fitness and healthy lifestyle than leisure, hence the hotel’s gym is well equipped, while those who want fitness beyond the gym can visit Upbeat Centre, one of the hotel’s partners in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
All these are top among the facilities and service offerings that stand out Radisson Blu Anchorage as a business hotel.
“Our services are designed specifically for corporate customers. We are focused mainly on our corporate guests from January to mid-December because that is where our strength is.
“We prepare them for their meetings, we make sure they are here for their meetings, and offer them enabling facilities. You cannot mix leisure and business when you are not designed for that,” Yusuf Sesay, the hotel’s sales and marketing director, explained.
With all these going for the hotel, it has had several nominations in the business hotel categories of major awards, most of which it won.
The sales executive, who attributed the many awards to the hotel’s continued focus on the business traveler and corporate guests, described a business traveler as a mix of indigenous travellers coming from within Lagos, within the country, the sub region and from across the world.
“But all of them research the facilities they want to stay in. That works in our favour because we have good reviews on TripAdvisor, Booking.com, and GRI Guests Review Index where we have over 96 percent rating because of our focus on corporate guests.
“We will not relent; we will keep improving on our facilities and offerings. We have improved our suites. We have also worked on our jetty because a lot of our corporate guests use it to access Lagos. We are committed to improving the experience of our guests,” Sesay concluded.
Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel in Victoria Island Lagos is a 170-room business hotel with sea and city view room options. It offers other facilities such as seven meeting rooms, spa, gym, outdoor swimming pool, world class jetty, indoor and open restaurants and a mini shopping arcade.
