Optima hotel chain (formerly Reikartz) opened the Optima Collection River Park hotel near Lubart’s castle in Lutsk on January 13.
According to the chain’s press service, the hotel has 86 rooms of the following categories: “Classic Single, Classic Twin, Classic Double, Standard, Superior, Superior MHN, Junior Suite and Suite. The hotel also offers two conference rooms and a meeting room. The hotel has a shelter for staff and guests during an emergency.
The Optima Hotels & Resorts chain unites more than 60 hotels in Ukraine. Until 2023, the chain was developing under the Reikartz Hotels & Resorts brand, and since 2020, with the help of Turkish shareholders, it has opened hotels in Kazakhstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan. In the summer of 2023, Turkish shareholders bought the Reikartz brand from a Ukrainian company for development in Turkey and Central Asia. In Ukraine, the hotel chain was rebranded in 2023 with the new name Optima Hotels & Resorts.
Optima Hotel Management LLC was established in 2008. According to Opendatabot, the company’s shareholders are Volodymyr Kashutin (Lviv, 99.9%) and Andriy Dema (Kyiv, 0.1%). Kashutin is listed as the ultimate beneficiary. At the same time, until 2019, the beneficiaries were Russian citizens Yuriy Vasin, Leonid Lavrentiev and Timur Rodionov.
According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 7 million, compared to a loss in 2022. Revenue increased by 40.8% to UAH 445.8 million.
Ukrainian and Polish presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andrzej Duda have met in Lutsk (Volyn Region).
A photo of the presidents in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Lutsk was published by the “Suspicious” telegraph channel.
The website of the Polish presidential office also published a photo from the church with the presidents. “Together we pay tribute to all those innocently killed in Volyn! We are united by memory! Together we are stronger,” they wrote.
In the telegram channel of the president of Ukraine also published photos of the meeting of Zelensky and Duda with a similar inscription: “Together we honor all the innocent victims of Volyn! The memory unites us! Together we are stronger!”.
Earlier it was reported that in July Ukraine and Poland will hold a series of events on the 80th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy.
