Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix hotels filling up

Several of Bahrain's hotels are already fully booked for the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix to be held on April 13-15. Some hoteliers say they were fully booked as early as May last year, mostly by international corporate clients and all hotels have increased their rates by a slight margin.

However, others believe the response they got this year wasn't as good as it had been in previous years, while some say it was still early and that more bookings would be confirmed closer to the actual event.

Crowne Plaza sales and marketing director Zee Bassila said that the month of April was one of the hotel's busiest schedules.

Preparations for F1, coupled with the normal conferences, regular tourist visits and other events contributed to April being the month when the hotel earned the highest revenue, he said.