Bartica’s Seventh Avenue Hotel mirrors gold industry’s fortunes

Bartica’s Seventh Avenue Hotel with Sonjie De Barros inset

The decline in the number of guests that drop by Bartica’s Seventh Avenue Hotel looking for a room has not been sufficiently significant to cause the establishment’s Proprietrix Sonjie De Barros to worry needlessly. But it has been marked enough for her to take notice.

De Barros told Stabroek Business earlier this week that the 50 per cent occupancy – a figure which most hotel owners would give an eye tooth for – which her 10-room hotel was enjoying on Monday was below average.

Both Bartica and the Seventh Avenue Hotel have been ‘spoilt rotten’ by the township’s strategic location and the