ABOUT COMO UMA PARO
About COMO
Christina Ong (née Fu, born October 1947), also known as the "Queen of Bond Street", is a Singaporean businesswoman. A major player of a few companies, including Club 21 and COMO Hotels and Resorts, the Ong family, comprising Ong and her husband Ong Beng Seng, is valued at $1.8 billion as of July 2014, according to Forbes. She is said to be "one of the wealthiest women in the world
Located just 3 km from the Paro International Airport, Uma by COMO, Paro provides the facilities and benefits of an indoor pool, spa and fitness centre. It offers free WiFi. Offering Mountain View, the spacious and bright air-conditioned rooms have a flat-screen cable TV, DVD and CD player. They feature a sitting area, minibar and electric kettle. The attached bathrooms come with free toiletries, bath tub, a hairdryer and shower. Uma by COMO, Paro is located just 3.7 km from the beautiful Paro Town and 14 km from the famous Taktsang Monastery. The guests can approach the tour desk for the currency exchange. The property offers 24-hour front desk and baggage storage for the convenience of the guests. The dry cleaning and laundry facilities are available at a surcharge. Ironing service can be requested. The in-house restaurant serves local Indian dishes. The guests can enjoy refreshing alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at the bar. Packed lunches can be requested. Room service is available.
Departments
Front Office
The front office or reception is an area where visitors arrive and first encounter a staff at a place of business or the core operations department of the hotel.
Housekeeping
Four one week we are attached with the regular staff of the housekeeping department. After completing one week we are left by ourself to do the room cleaning and evening turndown service. We are made to do 16 day shift called split in the housekeeping department. Every morning from 6:am to 12:pm we have to clean both check out and in house room. From 12:pm to 6:pm we are free to go home. At exact 6:30pm we have to start evening turndown service till 9:30pm. We also worked in the public area for 5 days. Here the morning shift or duty start from 5:am till 2:pm. THE EVENING SHIFT START FROM 2:PM TTILL 11:30PM. Here our responsibility is to clean the rest room and have to put the restroom aminities like hand cream, hand wash, hand towel and tissue paper. After that we have to clean the lobby area,bar and courtyard. At around 10;30 am we have to start cleaning the restaurant. We have to frequently clean or check the guest restroom. In the evening service our responsibility is to frequently check the guest restroom and have to see around. Exactly at 9:30pm we have to clean the human resource(HR) office and it should be cleaned within 30 minthes. . When it comes to laundry the morning duty start from 7:am to 4:pm and the evening duty start from 12:pm to 9:30pm. Our responsibility is to switch on the machine and sort out all the uniforms and lineans. After finished the lineans and uniforms we have to start ironing the cloths. Eventhough the housekeeping work is a tiring we got experiemce which we know will be helpful in our future carrer.
Kitchen
In Como UAM PARO, kitchen department was divided into four sections. 1. Hot Kitchen It is place where western, Indian and Bhutanese cuisine. 2. Cold Kitchen It is a place where salad and freshly squeeze juice are prepared. 3. Pastry Freshly baked breads, cookies and varieties of dessert are prepared in pastry. 4. Stewards Area Play important role in kitchen because in this area steward are responsible for washing the restaurant dishes and all the kitchen utensils, as well as cleaning all the larger items of kitchen equipment and the food production areas. Culinary Adventure with COMO UMA PARO Guest can enjoy one hour Bhutanese cooking class, using techniques and ingredients native to the Himalayan country. Where guest can visit local vegetable market to find fresh and seasonal ingredients. While doing internship in kitchen department under experienced and knowledgeable chef we learn how to: · Prepare and cook food using variety of cooking techniques. · Learn to make different type of ice-cream. · Learn to make different type of bread.
Experience that i got from COMO UMA paro
