After 30 long years, Ezeiza will finally have an on-site hotel; project to be completed in 2013.
As the hub for 85% of all international flights in and out of Argentina, Ezeiza International Airport is always in the news. And usually for the wrong reasons, like the latest strike-du-jour (Aerolineas pilots, LAN flight attendants, air traffic controllers) or the recent chaos that ensued during the one-month closing of Aeroparque Jorge Newberry for renovations.
And while Argentina’s 33 major airports have seen major renovations since the 1998 creation of publicly traded airport concessionaire, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, one of the enduring problems at Ezeiza is the lingering utilization of the original terminal built 60 years ago during Per0n’s first term.
When that facility opened in 1949, it was one of the largest airports in the world and boasted amenities like an on-site hotel. The hotel, like most government goodies erected during that surplus-wasting wave of socialism, fell into serious disrepair and closed over thirty years ago after Per0n’s return from exile.
Now, after 40 years of being less-than-accommodating to international passengers and flight crews, Ezeiza will once again have its own hotel thanks to a joint venture between BA-based developer Fernandez Prieto & Asociados and relatively unknown hotelier, Land Hoteles. According to Clarin, the new on-site Ezeiza hotel will break ground in 2011 and be completed in 2013.
The US$30 million hotel will feature 160 guest rooms, a fitness center and a pool among other amenities. But perhaps best of all, it will be erected on its own podium rather than merged into the crumbling carcass of the old terminal. The announcement should encourage other foreign developers to contemplate hotel construction in and around Ezeiza, as well as much needed off-site parking. (Full Story in Spanish)
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