Nakheel opens 304-room premier inn at Dragon City.

Nakheel has announced the opening of its second hotel at Dragon City - a 304-room Premier Inn, which is located a few minutes away from Dragon Mart and its 5,000 shops, restaurants and attractions.

The property was officially opened by Ali Rashid Lootah, chairman of Nakheel, and Alison Brittain, chief executive officer of Whitbread, the UK's largest hospitality company and owner of the Premier Inn brand. The eight-storey hotel features a 320-seater restaurant, a Costa Coffee shop, a fully-equipped gym, and meeting facilities. It is the fourth Nakheel hotel to be delivered, following the inauguration of a second hotel at Ibn Battuta Mall. Premier Inn also operates Nakheel's first hotel at Ibn Battuta, opened in 2016.

Premier Inn Dragon City is part of Nakheel's long-term vision for the mixed-use community, currently best-known for the Dragon Mart retail and trading hub, where a new shopping complex and 900-space multi-storey car park opened last month. Dragon City's first hotel, a 251-room ibis Styles, opened in 2016, and its first residential component - a twin-tower apartment complex with 1,142 units - is under construction.

"Today marks another milestone for Nakheel, Dragon City and Dubai as we deliver the fourth hotel in our hospitality project portfolio, and the second at this...