The former San Dollar Inn will reopen as the Hotel Abrego on July 1 in Monterey, Calif., following a major renovation. To celebrate, the hotel is offering opening rates from $159 Sunday through Thursday and $179 Friday and Saturday, through Sept. 3.
The Baymont brand has opened its first hotel outside of the U.S. -- the 59-room Baymont Inn & Suites by the Falls hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Owned and operated by PHI Properties Inc., the recently renovated hotel marks a significant achievement in the growth of the Baymont brand, which, since joining the Wyndham Hotel Group family in 2006, has almost doubled the size of its portfolio to more than 225 hotels.
John Long, vice president of Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, tells TravelPulse.com that as of Friday, June 19, the company saw a 10 percent increase in bookings for July. “Every week, it’s been going up a few percentage points and then on Friday we saw it pick up in a single for a month,” he said. “If we sustain that pace, we could be 15 to 20 points ahead by the end of June.”
SuperClubs is offering up to $800 in savings to travelers who plan ahead and book their Breezes Resorts vacations by July 31 for travel between Jan. 2 and Dec. 17, 2010. Clients will be among the first to experience SuperClubs’ newest resort, Breezes Panama, with an introductory rate of $155 per person per night.
Hotel Contempo opened on May 15 in a tropical-garden setting 11 kilometers from Nicaragua’s capital city of Managua. The boutique hotel has 18 spacious rooms and suites wrapped in gleaming white marble and local white Travertine tile.
Divi Resorts announced an opportunity for guests at the Divi Flamingo Beach Resort in Bonaire to experience coral spawning, one of the most spectacular biological phenomena on Earth. A rarely seen but never forgotten event for most divers, coral spawning occurs only two to three times a year.




