By Alexander Britell

While Puerto Rico has quietly become a haven for high-end hotels in recent years, one property has remained perhaps its signature luxury resort: the St. Regis Bahia Beach.

And while many resorts have already reopened their doors since last year’s Hurricane Maria, the St. Regis has been quietly been transforming itself, completing a $60 million renovation.

And now it’s officially open again.

The changes have touched every guest room and suite, along with the St. Regis Bar, its flagship eatery, Paros, and the Casa Grande main house at the resort.

The 139 refurbished units have what the hotel is calling a “light, modern and organic aesthetic,” with design focused around the surrounding environment.

The Robert Trent Jones Jr golf course.

The transformation also includes upgrades to the St. Regis’ spa, its pool and esplanade, and its oceanfront Robert Trent Jones Jr golf course.

The resort tapped Puerto Rican designer Nono Maldonado for the renovation, together with San Francisco’s Hersch Bedner Associates.

The St. Regis, which is also planning an $85 million ultra-luxury residential development, is set on 483 acres between Puerto Rico’s legendary El Yunque National Forest and the Espiritu Santo River State Preserve.

And its triumphant return means both of the island’s halo resorts (including Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlon Reserve) are now open and accepting guests.

It’s part of what will be a busy December for Puerto Rico’s luxury market, with the highly-anticipated relaunch of the iconic El San Juan hotel in Isla Verde and the debut of hotelier Loisse Herger’s ultra-luxe OLV:55 hotel in Condado.

For more, visit the St. Regis Bahia Beach.

— CJ

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

The leading luxury hotel in the Dominican Republic has expanded.

The Eden Roc Cap Cana has added four new oceanfront pool villas to its offering, each with wraparound terraces, private steps leading to the sea and their own infinity pools overlooking the waves.

Three of the four villas are one-bedroom, 800-square-foot private homes; the fourth villa has two bedrooms across 1,500 square feet.

Amenities range from Nespresso machine to pillows by Hanse to 55-inch LCD televisions; each villa also comes with private butler service as well.

The new additions bring the total units at the luxury hotel to 38 — including 34 standalone luxury pool suites.

The expansion comes after the Eden Roc added 26 oceanfront suites along the beach last year.

— CJ

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By Caribbean News Now contributor ROSEAU, Dominica – Thirty-eight families from the Petite Savanne community in Dominica on Friday received the keys to brand new homes in the Bellevue Chopin housing development compliments of the government and financed by the island’s citizenship by investment (CBI) programme. Over 800 residents were evacuated from Petite Savanne after […]

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By Ray Chickrie Caribbean News Now contributor GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Copa Airlines, which commenced twice weekly service to Guyana in 2015, and expanded that to four flights a week a year ago, on Thursday announced an additional flight to Guyana on Fridays, bringing the total number of flights to five per week. Also on Thursday, […]

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