RIU Palace Punta Cana to Open Later this Month

RIU Hotels & Resorts will open its 28th hotel in the Americas and its ninth in the Dominican Republic when it debuts the 612-suite, all-inclusive RIU Palace Punta Cana in Bavaro Beach,the Dominican republic on April 28.

The new resort is the second RIU Palace in Punta Cana and is part of the six-resort RIU complex in that area.

RIU´s Caribbean holdings also include a resort in the Bahamas and one in Aruba as well as three resorts in Jamaica offering a total of 1,700 rooms. The RIU Ocho Rios Hotel, which opened last fall, is the largest in Jamaica with 856 rooms.

In Mexico, the resort firm has properties in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Nuevo Vallarta. A second Club Hotel RIU Vallarta will open in November in Nuevo Vallarta.