Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announced last week plans to build the first St. Regis Hotel in Latin America. Scheduled to open in 2007, the St. Regis Hotel, Mexico City is owned by Grupo 1818, a group of several prominent Mexican real estate investors and developers clustered under the name Ideurban Consultores, one of the largest real estate development companies in Mexico.
Following its grand opening of the St. Regis Hotel, Mexico City will boast the city´s most luxurious accommodations, targeting discriminating travelers and locals alike with 189 luxuriously appointed guestrooms and suites, as well as approximately 100 stunning private residences.
Dreams Resorts & Spas, a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, has announced its arrival into Mexico´s hottest destination Playa Maroma, the ´in´ beach destination near Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
The new Dreams Maroma Resort & Spa is scheduled to open autumn 2007 and will be designed by Dallas-based HKS, Inc., noted for its fame in designing Atlantis in the Bahamas and Las Ventanas al Pariso in Los Cabos.
Presidente Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts will open its ninth 5-star hotel in Mexico, the Presidente Intercontinental Villa Mercedes Merida, in Yucatan state capital Merida by December.
The 150-room hotel will occupy a 19th-century mansion near boulevard Paseo de Montejo, the city´s historic quarter and the convention center. The property, currently operating as the Hotel Villa Mercedes, is undergoing $12 million in expansion and renovations.
Marriott International representatives and New Orleans officials were on hand Friday to mark the official reopening of the JW Marriott Hotel New Orleans as the city took another step forward in its recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
J.W. Marriott, Marriott´s chairman and CEO, and Stephen Perry, president and CEO of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau, attended the opening ceremony.
A great value for divers, La Cabana All Suite Beach Resort & Casino in Aruba is offering extra savings on four- and eight-day dive vacations with the high-value Ultimate Dive package for the remainder of 2005.
The four-day/three-night Ultimate Dive package includes: Spacious Grand Suite accommodations Five dives Tanks, weights and transportation to and from dive boats Choice of one-tank dives, two-tank dives, reef dives or wreck dives Hotel service charge and tax.
Sunscape Resorts & Spas has announced the reopening of its Sunscape Puerto Aventuras property in Mexico´s Mayan Riviera on October 16. The resort had been closed since July for US$3.5 million in property-wide improvements and is now opening its doors to guests with a promotional rate through December.
Sunscape Puerto Aventuras´ renewal project included the rebuilding and refurnishing of 88 of its 305 rooms, the rest of which had recently been remodeled when the resort completed an extensive renovation in December.