The first-ever Hyatt House hotel in Mexico and Latin America has opened its doors in Mexico City.

The Hyatt House Mexico City/Santa Fe includes 119 “residentially inspired” guestrooms, ranging from studios to kitchen suites with fully equipped kitchens.

It also features the 24-hour H Market, with snacks, salads and sandwiches, free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel and the H Bar, featuring a mix of casual food and premium beers, wines and cocktails.

“We are very excited to announce the opening of Hyatt House Mexico City/Santa Fe, which marks the arrival of the Hyatt House brand to the region,” said Luciano Julio, regional director of operations in Latin America for Hyatt Place and Hyatt House. “Every space in this hotel has been conceived to remind guests of home, and we want to warmly welcome them to their new home in the heart of the Santa Fe business area.”

Mexican hospitality firm Grupo Presidente is responsible for the hotel’s operations.

“Now that we have opened our doors, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome guests,” said Braulio Arsuaga, chief executive officer of Grupo Presidente. “We are excited to collaborate with Hyatt on this project, and we believe guests will be pleased with the innovative extended stay concept offer at Hyatt House Mexico City/Santa Fe.”

Hyatt House also has a property in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

— CJ Staff

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It’s one of those places where you’d want to be even if there weren’t a great resort on the grounds.

The Surfsong Villa Resort is set on the ​​eastern end of Tortola,​ British Virgin Islands, just off Beef Island on Well Bay, a tucked-away spot you could drive by a million times and never know it was there.

But once you discover this well-kept secret, you begin to appreciate how he stark natural beauty of the BVI is integrated into its design and thoughtful management.

Surfsong is surrounded by water and the surf on the reefs help to create the most amazing of sea sounds — a siren call of the sea — and the resort’s namesake. (Wait for it at the end of the video above).

The villas all have different personalities, some small and intimate and others large houses. Staff can be arranged to prepare special meals and even shop and provision for you.

Having a villa on vacation is perhaps the best vacation experience there is.  With a staff to maintain and service your villa you might think you’ve died and gone to heaven.

And here on the edge of Tortola, it might actually feel like it.

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Secret Bay, one of the Caribbean’s most spectacular boutique hotels, has launched a limited time promotion offering free extra nights for travelers who book by July 15.

Travelers who book a stay at the Dominica hotel get three nights for the price of two, or six nights for the price of four — an extra night for every three nights you book.

“That’s more time to soak up the Caribbean sun from your villa’s private pool, enjoy a personalized dinner from our Executive Chef on your terrace, and swim in the turquoise sea off our secluded Secret Beach,” the hotel says.

Sounds good to us.

Rates start at $346 per night for stays through September 29.

Visit Secret Bay here.

— CJ

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At the short end of a long street in the epicentre of the Caribbean’s last great Creole downtown there is a bar.

But it is not just any bar. And it is a bar with big ambitions. It is one that seeks to lead the Caribbean.

25 Quarter opened two years ago in the old stone walls of the former Rhum St Barth space in Gustavia, a well designed, hip and funky joint with excellent service and a creative menu focused on a global street food fare, from tacos to dumplings.

It is a place to drink without pretense, with high design undergirded by quality.

But the mark of a truly great bar, the sort of bar that becomes a destination in its own right, is what’s in it.

And proprietaire Christopher Davis has filled this place with wonders.

For starters, there’s a remarkable slate of 135 bourbons, and a soon to formally debut collection of more than 330 rums, a total that will be the largest of any bar south of Key West when it comes online, housed in its own lounge-within-a-lounge replete with rum lockers.

And not just any rums — vintage, rare, world-beating rums, from limited edition bottlings from Caroni’s lost distillery in Trinidad to expressions from every single distillery in Martinique to often unattainable Cuban super-rums (think Havana Club Union, for one).

And then there are the master classes, regular celebrations of the world of spirits that draw in luminaries from tequila, rum and more to come to this intimate place and speak to aficionados on their craft.

This is a bar for bar lovers.

Sure, there are some wonderful places to drink in St Barth, beach lounges and hotels.

But there is nothing like this.

That’s what makes 25 Quarter the best bar in St Barth, and a Caribbean legend in the making.

— Alexander Britell

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Air France is increasing its service to Costa Rica, the carrier announced this week.

Air France will now be offering an additional flight from Paris to San Jose this winter, meaning three weekly flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle on San Jose on Boeing 777-300 aircraft with 468 seats.

The company said the move came to “meet high market demand.”

The carrier will also be offering the flights next summer for the first time, with two weekly flights on Boeing 777-200 aircraft with 312 seats beginning April 1, 2018.

Air France-KLM serves 25 destinations in the South America-Central America-Caribbean region.

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