Hotel company Karisma is planning a big bash to celebrate what would have been the 80th birthday of global music icon Bob Marley. 

The company’s Azul Beach Resort Negril is planning a week of events to mark the occasion from Feb. 3-9. 

As part of the program, the 285-room property will be featuring “endless Marley-inspired dance, food, drink and education,” the company said in a statement. 

That will include a Jamaican cultural showcase on the history fo African drummers; a “retro reggae showcase”; a Bob Marley quiz and trivia event; a tribute performance by the One Love reggae band; a performance by the Jam Dynamites on the history of Jamaican dancing and a reggae beach party among others. 

Karisma called the event series a “gift to guests in honor of Bob Marley’s birthday, part of the ‘Gourmet Inclusive’ vacation experience.”

For more, visit Azul Beach Resort Negril by Karisma. 

— CJ

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The most iconic resort in the British Virgin Islands has completed a long-awaited comeback on Virgin Gorda. 

Luxury brand Rosewood has reopened its signature Little Dix Bay resort, marking the culmination of a multimillion-dollar effort to transform the property — one that overcame Hurricane Irma in the process.

Rosewood Little Dix Bay’s official opening comes Jan. 6 — and it’s already been operating for the last few days, according to its Web site. 

Rosewood Little Dix Bay, which closed in 2015 to embark on a dramatic re-imagination of the property, is almost an entirely new property. 

New York-based design team Meyer Davis led the makeover, which meant the creation of 80 brand-new guestrooms, suites and villas, according to the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board. 

That’s along with four different dining concepts: the Caribbean-focused Sugar Mill; a “wholesome slow food” eatery called Pavilion; the farm-to-table Reef House and the Rum Room rum bar, which is “dedicated to the liquid gold of empires, adventurers and buccaneers,” the property said. 

The latter will feature cocktails from the resort’s formative years in the 1960s and 1970s and what Rosewood Little Dix Bay is calling “an extensive library of rare and aged from from around the world.”

It’s a dramatic rebirth for the resort, one that has instantly made the new-look Rosewood Little Dix Bay one of the hottest openings of 2020. 

What hasn’t changed? A dramatic setting on 500-acres abutting one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere in the Caribbean — the site that first drew Laurance Rockefeller to the property in the 1960s – and brought a half-century of legendary guests, too — including Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. 

Rosewood Little Dix Bay has long been the crown jewel of the company’s Caribbean portfolio, one that now includes the new Rosewood Baha Mar and the in-development Rosewood Half Moon Bay in Antigua. 

For more, visit Rosewood Little Dix Bay. 

 —CJ

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