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Villa units under construction of the West Bay Resort and Hotel.

West Bay resort takes shape

01 March 2004

Construction work is under way in Doha on the West Bay Resort and Hotel, owned by the Tourism Development Company.

The two-phase project, which is due for completion by mid-2005, will comprise a 350-room hotel and 70 villas. Construction work is in progress on the villas, covering around 42,000 sq m, which will make up the resort and the first phase of the project.
The 74,000 sq m hotel – for which the conceptual design has been completed – will be developed in the second phase. Dates for construction and budget allocation for the hotel are yet to be finalised.
The villas, right on the waterfront, will be surrounded by landscaped gardens with a large, lagoon-style swimming pool, with water features. The villas, which are of three different types, will have four or six bedrooms. All bedrooms in the villas have en-suite bathrooms and there are kitchens, dining and lounge areas.
While the developers envisage that some villas will be let as single units, others will be two self-contained units (one upstairs, one downstairs). The development will also offer some of the resort’s villas on a room-by-room basis.