Hotel Dili

Hotel Dili
Hotel Dili
Location within East Timor
General information
Location	Avenida dos Direitos Humanos, Dili, Timor-Leste
Coordinates	8°33′7″S125°34′58″E / 8.55194°S 125.58278°E / -8.55194; 125.58278
Opening	1933

Hotel Dili is a hotel on the waterfront in Dili, Timor-Leste, established in 1933. It was purchased by Australian Frank Favaro (1935-2000) in 1971. ^[1] In 1975, Favaro harbored six Australians at the hotel during a battle, part of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, although they were said to "consistently refuse offers of evacuation." ^[2] The "concrete structures of the Hotel Dili were deemed almost impervious to assault." ^[3] The hotel had to be evacuated at one point due to an attack. Jane Nicholls describes the hotel as "wacky" and "East Timor's own Fawlty Towers ." ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Trahair, R. C. S. (2004). Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 75. ISBN   978-0-313-31955-6 . Retrieved 16 July 2012.
2. Jolliffe, Jill (1978). East Timor: nationalism and colonialism. University of Queensland Press. p. 138. ISBN   978-0-7022-1480-6 . Retrieved 16 July 2012.
3. Kingsbury, Damien (2009). East Timor: The Price of Liberty (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave MacMillan, Springer. p. 223. doi:10.1057/9780230621718. ISBN   9780230621718.
4. Nicholls, Jane (January 1999). Flight 642: Jakarta to Dili. Bruce Sims Books. p. 179. ISBN   978-0-9577800-0-2 . Retrieved 16 July 2012.
5. "Peacekeepers Patrolling Dili Silently Stalk A Small Hotel". The New York Times . October 3, 1999.(subscription required)

External links

• Official site Archived 2016-06-28 at the Wayback Machine