The Dutch Caribbean’s first-ever Dreams resort has officially made its debut in Curacao.
Apple Leisure Group’s AMResorts brand has opened the new Dreams Curacao Resort, Spa and Casino following a large-scale renovation of the former Hilton Curacao resort.
The 197-room property includes seven dining options, a large casino with two bars, a PADI-certified dive center, a Pevonia spa and a prime stretch of beachfront on Curacao’s Piscadera Bay.
It’s also home to a 16th-century Dutch colonial for that can be used for party receptions and other events, AMResorts said.
Low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines is adding more new routes to the Caribbean next year — to The Bahamas, Cozumel and Puerto Rico.
The company, which has been rapidly expanding its Caribbean network over the past several years, has announced plans to launch three new routes to the Caribbean for the summer of 2020.
That will be highlighted by a new route from Houston Hobby Airport to Nassau in The Bahamas, with service set to launch June 13.
That route will operate weekly on Saturdays.
Southwest Airlines is also adding a new twice-daily flight from Houston to the increasingly popular tourism destination of Cozumel just off the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
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That route is slated to launch March 7, 2020, subject to government approvals.
The new flights from Houston are part of a growing expansion for Southwest at Hobby, where it continues to ramp up its Caribbean operations, from Punta Cana to Providenciales.
And Puerto Rico’s ongoing airlift boom is continuing with another new route from Southwest Airlines.
Southwest is launching a new nonstop route from Nashville, Tenn. to San Juan, Puerto Rico beginning in June.
The new flights, which will operate weekly on Saturdays, will also begin operating on June 13, 2020.
That’s been boosted by a surge in new flights, both from traditional powers like Delta to upstart carriers like Frontier (which just added three new routes to Puerto Rico) and the fast-growing Spirit, which keeps adding to an already strong network of flight options to Puerto Rico.
The British Virgin Islands is now home to its first Wyndham hotel: the Wyndham Lambert Beach Resort in Tortola.
The newly resort is a rebranding of the former Lambert Beach Resort, which had been slated to debut as a Wyndham before Hurricane Irma and finally opened last month under the new flag.
The 38-room hotel is set across eight “villa-style” buildings on 14 acres in Tortola.
Amenities include a restaurant and bar on the beach, a swim-up pool bar, an outdoor verandah for private dining and a fun happy hour scene.
The biggest amenity, though, is a setting on 1,500 feet of direct beach frontage.
Luxury Caribbean resorts just keep getting more and more impressive, and with every year the standard for Caribbean luxury gets higher.
We’ve long said that Caribbean luxury is a unique concept; but even within the sphere there are so many different interpretations and manifestations of what the word means in the region.
There’s sleek, modern luxury; the luxury of the residential resort; the luxury of overwhelming beauty and design; and the luxury of endless indulgence — to name a few.
The hottest luxury Caribbean resorts for 2020 all exemplify a particular brand of luxury; what they all have in common is a commitment to making guests feel grand.
Here are the hottest, buzziest luxury resorts in the Caribbean for 2020.
Cabrits Resort and Spa Kempinski Dominica There’s no hotter luxury Caribbean resort than the brand-new Cabrits Resort and Spa Kempinski Dominica, the Nature Island’s first true resort. The 151-room resort in northern Dominica is the first-ever resort in the Caribbean for the luxe Kempinski brand, and a new level of modern luxury for an island that has long been one of the Caribbean’s most closely-guarded secrets. Make sure you go for one of the plunge-pool suites, either gazing at the sea or at Dominica’s stunning green-mountain scenery.
