The Dreams Palm Beach Punta Cana resort has officially reopened, completing AMResorts’ reopening of all of the company’s 11 resorts in the Dominican Republic.
The all-inclusive, family-friendly resort, has 500 rooms and suites in the heart of Bavaro in Punta Cana.
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader was on hand for the reopening ceremony, joined by tourism officials and AMResorts executives.
The resort has reopened under AMResorts’ new CleanComplete Verification program of health and safety protocols.
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One of St Barth’s top beach hotels has officially reopened, Caribbean Journal has learned.
Le Sereno, the Grand Cul de Sac luxury resort, began welcoming guests again this weekend.
The property has relaunched with a spa by Valmont, new family suites, a reimagine restaurant and an extended beach area called Plage.
“It has been a challenging year for the industry, but we are delighted to welcome our guests back to Le Sereno as we open our doors and launch exciting new experiences for the 2021 season,” said Samy Ghachem, Managing Director of Sereno Hotels. “We look forward to providing our guests with world-class cuisine inspired by our sister property, Il Sereno Lago di Como, design-driven accommodation with offerings for larger groups and of course, the relaxed and luxury service that they know and love. Guests can rest assured our staff and procedures are above and beyond, having just finished our season at Il Sereno in Lake Como.”
The hotel has also debuted new Suites Piscines, villa-style suites that come with their own private pools. They also can be connected, the property said.
“Following damage from the passing of Hurricane Irma my family decided to demolish and to completely rebuild from scratch a significant part of the property, including more than half the rooms and all the public spaces, while maintaining the iconic style of Le Sereno which has a devoted following amongst guests. In the true spirit of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’, we worked on a complete rebuild, while keeping the essence of the hotel intact” said Luis Contreras, Founder of Sereno Hotels. “The craziness of this year meant our guests weren’t able to experience to the fullest this brand new hotel and we are looking forward to our grand reopening.”
The relaunch of the hotel is another boost for what seems to be a very strong holiday season on the island.
Planning to visit St Barth? The island’s health requirements entail showing proof of a negative PCR test within three days before arrival.
It’s a crisp December afternoon in Abaco, and “Fore Aces” is in Boat Harbour, a 124-foot-long message that one of the most important marinas in The Bahamas is very much back.
It’s not a surprise to the legendary singer-songwriter’s former yacht here in Abaco; this is The Bahamas’ boating Mecca, a place that’s drawn the navally inclined to its electric blue waters and green-hilled islands and cays for centuries.
And for nearly seven decades, they’ve started or ended or stopped along on their journeys in one place: the Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour Marina.
The Abaco Beach Resort.
“This is the crossroads of the Abacos,” longtime owner Manny Alexiou tells Caribbean Journal. “We’re the hub.”
And so the dramatic reconstruction and transformation the resort has gone through over the last 15 months since Hurricane Dorian is that much more significant — both for Marsh Harbour and the Abacos at large.
Alexiou is speaking inside the sparkling new lobby of the hotel, which overlooks the resort’s beach, the aforementioned marina and the Sea of Abaco.
In many ways it’s a completely new resort, with a sleek, fresh decor, upgraded rooms and, most importantly, a new energy.
The marina is pristine, too, with boats like Fore Aces joined by a new wave of charter yachts and boats of varying sizes.
Inside one of the rooms.
So are the beach and the campus itself, home to everything from a giant chess set to a playground.
And then there’s the restaurant, the Pool Bar & Terrace at Marinaville, led by the wonderfully talented Chef Deja Rutherford.
These fish bites are alone worth the trip.
The latter has already become Marsh Harbour’s place to be, thanks to a steady diet of Goombay Smashes and some outstanding food, including the spectacular fish bites that should somehow find manage to find their way into your order every time you dine here (“The secret ingredient is fresh fish,” Rutherford says).
Chef Deja Rutherford.
And it’s all the more remarkable given that all of this was done in a period that saw a hurricane followed by a pandemic.
What hasn’t changed, even amid all of these challenges, is the raw beauty of the Abacos, the blue and the green and the joy of hopping from the boatyards on Man-O-War Cay to lighthouse-gazing in Hope Town to pulling up a dinghy to the empty sands of Matt Lowe’s Cay.
Hope Town’s iconic lighthouse is just a short boat ride away.
And the Abaco Beach Resort is where you do it from.
“You come and you can enjoy all of Abaco’s experiences right from here,” Alexiou says.
And that’s what travelers and adventurers have done for decades, and what they’re doing here once again.
Because while it may not be his boat anymore, it certainly knows how to find that one particular harbor.
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