First Phnom Penh’s Airport Hotel Opens

The first ever airport hotel serving the Phnom Penh International Airport opened on July 1, 2012 located at Ratana Plaza on the junction between the Russian Blvd and the Hanoi Road on the way to the airport from the central Phnom Penh.

Dara Airport Hotel, the only 4-star “Airport Hotel " in Cambodia, is conveniently located only less than 10 minutes’ drive from the capital International Airport. The hotel is part of the Ratana Plaza complex, which houses a Lucky supermarket, Lucky Burger, iOne computers and a various shops.

Designed to offer both short-term and long-term accommodations, the hotel caters to businessmen, tourists, and transit airline passengers alike, especially for those who has short period stopover in Phnom Penh, and wish to gain a quick look onto Phnom Penh images, and wish to pick up the flight on time.

The hotel features contemporary designed rooms, business center with meeting room, fusion restaurant, a club lounge, lobby bar, fitness center, Infinity pool, therapy rooms, and airport shuttle service.

The hotel’s restaurant is called Blue Sky and has Western, Khmer and Chinese menus. The Attitude Lounge is located adjacent to the fifth floor rotunda and reception area.

The best feature of the hotel is the fifth floor open area where guests can relax in the open air, adjacent to the lobby.

The advantage is to be close to the airport, which fit best to travelers who has short time stopover in order to catch another flight.

It is just a walking distance from the hotel's new shopping mall, a large supermarket , and the Cambodian Country Club, the Phnom Penh largest and best sport complex, and a mere ten minutes away from the Grand Phnom Penh golf course.

The Dara Airport Hotel has 155 rooms with a fifth-floor reception, swimming pool, bar and spa. A 60-room second addition to the hotel on an adjacent street, with 11 long-stay apartments, in a building along with a restaurant and a branch of Canadia Bank is scheduled to open in November. When the adjacent addition is opened, the hotel’s total room count will be 226.