Private and semi-private shuttle service between St Maarten and Anguilla will relaunch this month, Caribbean Journal has learned.
The 25-minute private and semi-private service is set to resume Nov. 15, the Anguilla Tourist Board confirmed.
That will include Calypso Charters, Funtime Charters and GB Express as approved companies authorized to operate the service.
The service runs between the St Maarten-Anguilla Ferry Terminal, which is just across the road from Princess Juliana International Airport, and Anguila’s Blowing Point Ferry Terminal.
The former Serafina Beach Hotel in San Juan’s hip Condado neighborhood has officially relaunched as the new Condado Ocean Club Hotel.
The property was developed with an original investment of more than $40 million.
The “ocean-inspired, adults-only, boutique hotel” officially opened its doors this week.
“At Condado Ocean Club Hotel each visitor is more than a guest, they are members and an integral part of our club, a place where we value the local life-style and culture, art, ambiance, food and authentic experiences that make up our property,” said Albert Charbonneau, the general manager of the hotel. “We are excited and ready to personalize each stay, with excellent service, with charm and charisma”, said Albert Charbonneau, general manager of the property.”
All of the 96 rooms at the hotel have “dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows” overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, according to the property.
Rooms have been imagined in what the property describes as an “elegant, beach style,” with bath amenities by Malin + Goetz.
“In every detail, we consider the senses, both in the settings and different spaces, views, scents, and flavors that will make the stay memorable,” said Betsy Mujica, director of sales and marketing at the Condado Ocean Club.
The property has opened with the “strictest health and safety protocols” amid the new realities of travel, it said.
The property is part of Paulson Co.’s hotel portfolio in Puerto Rico, which now includes the St Regis Bahia Beach; the Harbor Lakes in Palmas Del Mar; La Concha, a Renaissance Hotel in Condado and the Condado Vanderbilt.
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The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization has launched a new campaign looking to help maintain the region’s prominence as a “place of solace” amid the pandemic.
“This theme compliments the region’s success in generally containing the spread of COVID-19 which has taken a major toll on tourism along with other sectors of our economies. Caribbean countries have taken the required steps to protect our citizens and residents, conducted the required training to prepare our tourism and related frontline workers for the return of visitors and put the health protocols in place to reassure our potential visitors and residents that we take their health seriously,” said Neil Walters, the acting Secretary General of the organization. “This has been the groundwork, and now we seek to rebuild the sector.”
November is Caribbean Tourism Month and the CTO says it is encouraging the general public to share on social media thing they “can’t wait to experience” in the Caribbean.
That’s along with a campaign featuring “live “demonstrations on regional culture like cocktails and cuisine.
The vast majority of the region’s tourism destinations have reopened in the last few months — some 25 countries, according to Walters.
“The resilience of the Caribbean is shown by the progress we have made towards the resumption of tourism activity,” he said. “This year’s theme further compliments the reopening of our borders, as the clarion call ‘We welcome you’ speaks to the fact that the Caribbean is the perfect place for those who have begun to travel or are thinking of traveling soon, to find solace in a place that is an oasis of health at this time.”
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