The 174-room-and-suite hotel has a 24-hour fitness center, a semi-Olympic-size rooftop pool and a “Heavenly Spa by Westin,” among other amenities.
“The Westin Monterrey Valle will set a new standard of hospitality in Monterrey by transforming the way travelers experience wellbeing in one of Mexico’s most important cities,” said Beat Meier, General Manager of The Westin Monterrey Valle. “We are extremely excited to offer our signature wellness programs that will help our guests eat, sleep, move, feel, work and play well while they stay at our wonderful hotel.”
It’s home to several dining concepts, including The Brooklyn, New York Brasserie and Deck11, the latter set on the aforementioned rooftop.
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From all-inclusives in Barbados to design-focused hotels in Jamaica, Marriott International added more than 10,000 rooms to its pipeline in Latin America and the Caribbean last year.
And the company is showing no signs of slowing down.
2019 was the company’s fourth consecutive year of record-breaking expansion in the wider Caribbean region — one that saw new properties across 15 different hotel brands.
“We had a landmark year for hotel transactions in the Caribbean and Latin America in 2019, fueled by the hotel development community’s demand for our leading business support and loyalty program, our attractive brands and strong owner interest in our new all-inclusive brand extensions,” said Laurent de Kousemaeker, chief development officer for Marriott International.
And Marriott has a regional pipeline of 146 hotels and resorts comprising more than 24,000 rooms, he said.
The company now has 268 open properties and some 55,195 rooms across 34 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean.
That includes an 800-room hotel in Jamaica (along with another in Curacao), along with a major step for the brand, the first ever all-inclusive Ritz-Carlton, slated to make its debut in Mexico.
But it’s not just all-inclusive.
The new Aloft in San Juan, which opened in the area’s Convention District earlier this month.
What it means is continued confidence by developers in the region — and continued strength in the region for what is the world’s biggest hotel company.
“We are poised for solid growth in this region,” de Kousemaeker said.
The Caribbean is mourning one of its most legendary hoteliers, Grenada’s Sir Royston Hopkin, who passed away over the weekend.
Hopkin was the proprietor of the renowned Spice Island Beach Resort on Grenada’s Grand Anse Beach.
Hopkin, a former CHTA Caribbean Hotelier of the Year, was also a past president of both the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association and the Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association.
Sir Royston Hopkin.
“A bright light has gone out in our industry this weekend, but Sir Royston’s love of our industry, our CHTA, our region and the beautiful resort he labored over will live on forever,” said Patricia Affonso-Dass, president of the CHTA. “[Hopkin was] a giant of a man, a bright light that lit up a room – not a man of half measures, but rather someone who believed that anything that was worth doing was worth doing excellently.”
Hopkin was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 for his contribution to the Caribbean and its tourism industry.
He had been chairman of the Spice Island Beach Resort since purchasing a majority interest in the then-Spice Island Inn back in 1987.
