The building, before the name changed
Real photographs of 273/274 Aba Road — from its Claridon Hotels & Resorts years.
Grand Tokyu Hotel’s own website is currently offline and it publishes no photo library, and its Tripadvisor listing has no photos or reviews yet. But the address has a history: 273/274 Aba Road traded for years as Claridon Hotels & Resorts, and a set of its photographs survives on Tripadvisor and the OTAs.
They are published here — plainly labelled — because they are the only genuine photographs of the building we could find. There are 12 of them: the frontage, the courtyard and pool, reception, the restaurant, four room categories, a sitting room and a bathroom. They show the property as it was, not necessarily as it is today: Grand Tokyu has since refurbished and rebranded it.
Read this before you book on the strength of these pictures. These are archive photographs of the building from the Claridon era. Room finishes, furniture, the restaurant and the pool area may all have changed since. For how the hotel presents itself now, see the rooms and gallery pages — and note that the marketing imagery there is explicitly illustrative.
The cream facade and the two red arched gates that open onto Aba Road — the easiest way to recognise the building when you arrive.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Zenhotels)
Guest-room balconies wrap around a central courtyard, with a covered walkway and the property’s distinctive red-roofed crown structure in the middle of the block.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Zenhotels), cross-checked against the Tripadvisor courtyard shot
The small pool sits in the centre of the block, ringed by the room wings — exactly the layout older guest reviews describe.
Tripadvisor property photo, Claridon d2177947
Reception and the lounge areas, with the glass-topped tables that ran through the lobby and full-height windows onto the courtyard.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Zenhotels / OTA set)
Looking down onto the lobby floor: the marble-tiled entrance, the lounge seating and the corridor through to the room wings.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Zenhotels)
The dining room, laid with white-covered tables and dark chairs, with the bar and a television at the far end of the room.
Tripadvisor property photo, Claridon d2177947 (2017)
The classic layout: a double bed with a runner, orange drapes, a wall-mounted television and a nightstand — the room most guests were given.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Destinia / OTA set)
Two beds, a dark timber headboard and nightstand, tiled floor and a rug — this room also shows the split air-conditioning unit and wardrobe.
Tripadvisor property photo, Claridon d2177947 (2017)
The bigger category carried a wider bed, a proper writing desk and a luggage bench — the room to ask for if you planned to work.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Destinia / OTA set)
A suite living area with a television, a gilded armchair and gold drapes — the precursor of what the hotel now sells as its suites and apartment.
Claridon Hotels & Resorts gallery (Zenhotels)
Tiled bathroom with a shower over the bath, a vanity and the mirror lighting typical of the period.
Tripadvisor property photo, Claridon d2177947 (2017)
Another angle on the guest room: work desk, wall-mounted television and the dressing area beside the bathroom.
Tripadvisor property photo, Claridon d2177947 (2017)
| Photograph | Source | What we know |
|---|---|---|
| Courtyard, pool and rooms | Zenhotels listing for Claridon Hotels & Resorts, Port Harcourt | Same address 273/274 Aba Road |
| Lobby, restaurant, two double rooms and the bathroom | Tripadvisor property photographs, Claridon Hotels & Resorts (d2177947) — traveller-submitted, 2017 |
Same address reviewed by guests in 2015–2017 |
| Date of the photographs | 2017 (Tripadvisor uploads) and the Claridon trading era (property founded 2009) | Archive not current |
| Brand under which they were taken | Claridon Hotels & Resorts — the hotel’s earlier identity at the same address | Pre-rebrand |
Photographs of Tokyu Grand Hotel off 22 Stadium Road — a separate hotel about 4 km away — or of any other Port Harcourt property whose listings happened to appear in the same searches. Where a photo could not be tied to 273/274 Aba Road, it was discarded.
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Photographs remain the copyright of their owners and are reproduced here at reduced size for reference and identification only. If you own one of these images and would like it removed, contact the site owner and it will be taken down.
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