Holiday Inn Dublin Airport
02 August 2021 08:20
The Brand
Owned by the the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel group, Holiday Inn operate over 225,000 rooms across 1,232 hotels - with another 259 hotels currently in the pipeline.
The Hotel
Located within a ten minute shuttle bus ride to Dublin Airport, the brand new Holiday Inn Dublin Airport (HIDA) provides 421 air conditioned rooms over 10 storeys.
Catering predominantly for short-stay travellers, HIDA also offers modern business and conferencing facilities for up to 120 delegates, and boasts high-speed WiFI throughout the hotel, as well as an all-day dining service and four meeting rooms.
Other facilities include a fully equipped gym, Starbucks, and in the guest-rooms, air-conditioning, premium Hypnos beds and of course, a top draw TV entertainment system.
The Technology
Working in collaboration with Ignitus Group, specialist IT & Networks provider for the Hospitality Industry, Airwave supplied and implemented a television entertainment system into the hotel's 421 bedrooms.
The project commenced on the hotel's roof and in the headend room, with various network infrastructure installed to support the delivery of a full line-up of Freeview channels
367 x 43-inch, 76 x 49-inch and 4 x 55-inch Samsung EJ690U Series Hospitality TVs were wall-mounted in the guest-rooms. Samsung's EJ690U Series provides UHD resolution and HDR10+ picture refinement technology, providing a crisp, clear and memorable viewing experience.
Adding to the EJ690U's arsenal, Airwave implemented a Samsung REACH IP interactive system on each TV, featuring a homepage and ten information pages.
"We're delighted to have collaborated with Airwave in the provision of a TV entertainment system and supporting network infrastructure, to the Holiday Inn Dublin Airport. The project ran smoothly, hitting all deadlines and the system is working very well".
Krunal Patel, Director, Ignitus Group
