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New Haiti Hotel opens.
The english language article with pictures.
Haiti?s New Royal Oasis Hotel Officially Opens in Petion-Ville
Haiti?s New Royal Oasis Hotel Officially Opens in Petion-Ville
And Haiti's first Best Western Premier has been under construction and will open in 2013
Best Western to Open First U.S.-Branded Hotel in Haiti
By Kerry Medina
May 21, 2012 10:40 PM
Dallas-based Aimbridge Hospitality has been chosen to manage the new Best Western Premier Petion-Ville Hotel in Haiti. The hotel, which is being built near Port-au-Prince, will be the first U.S.-branded and managed hotel in Haiti when it opens in the fall of 2013.
The Best Western Premier Petion-Ville is owned by Carabimmo, Inc., which is based in Haiti and saw a need for a higher-end hotel project to host business travelers in the Port-au-Prince area. The hotel is located about five miles from the airport in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petion-Ville. The seven-story, 106-room hotel will feature 2,000 square feet of meeting and event space to cater to business travelers.
In addition to a full service restaurant and room service, the Best Western Premier Petion-Ville will have doormen, 40-inch flat-screen TVs and wireless Internet in each guest room, and a gym and a spa located on the property. There will also be a Presidential Suite and two Governors Suites available.
?We are privileged to have been chosen to manage the Best Western Premier Petion-Ville in Haiti, and believe it is a great opportunity in a growing country,? said Dave Johnson, president and CEO of Aimbridge. In November, Marriott International announced plans for a $45 million, 173-room Port-au-Prince hotel, with construction to begin this year and opening scheduled for mid-2014.
Best Western to Open First U.S.-Branded Hotel in Haiti
By Kerry Medina
May 21, 2012 10:40 PM
Dallas-based Aimbridge Hospitality has been chosen to manage the new Best Western Premier Petion-Ville Hotel in Haiti. The hotel, which is being built near Port-au-Prince, will be the first U.S.-branded and managed hotel in Haiti when it opens in the fall of 2013.
The Best Western Premier Petion-Ville is owned by Carabimmo, Inc., which is based in Haiti and saw a need for a higher-end hotel project to host business travelers in the Port-au-Prince area. The hotel is located about five miles from the airport in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petion-Ville. The seven-story, 106-room hotel will feature 2,000 square feet of meeting and event space to cater to business travelers.
In addition to a full service restaurant and room service, the Best Western Premier Petion-Ville will have doormen, 40-inch flat-screen TVs and wireless Internet in each guest room, and a gym and a spa located on the property. There will also be a Presidential Suite and two Governors Suites available.
?We are privileged to have been chosen to manage the Best Western Premier Petion-Ville in Haiti, and believe it is a great opportunity in a growing country,? said Dave Johnson, president and CEO of Aimbridge. In November, Marriott International announced plans for a $45 million, 173-room Port-au-Prince hotel, with construction to begin this year and opening scheduled for mid-2014.
This is a small step but one that will hopefully put people to work. Because of the vast number of problems that Haiti has it is going to be difficult to build back a tourist industry. I think most people from North America and Europe are not considering Haiti at all. The pictures that are seen on TV have scared most people away,
LTSteve
LTSteve
you can go years before you ever hear anyone mention Haiti in the USA unlees you know someone from there or its on the news. No one ever says I want to go to Haiti for a vacation before or since the earthquake.. Mexico is about the most popular place it seems now, even with the drug problems. Maybe the nice new hotels will help the image. The news in the USA never shows anything nice about Haiti.
But you do know that Haiti was a tourist mecca back in the Pappa and baby doc eras, right? When there was NOTHING going on here in the DR.. No Punta Cana.. just a strip on the north coast perhaps.
Haiti had a wonderful reputation and was amazing as a destination. Right about up to ... well.. the fall of Duvalier in 86
Even today, I doubt that there is much here in the DR that can match the elegance and service of some of the hotels..
Certainly the Ovando, or the Jaragua or the Melia could not hold a candle to the Montana
Please provide links, and or, photos depicting the glamor you're boasting about.
When Dominican business entrepreneur Frank Ranieri wanted to get involved in tourism in the 1970s, he crossed the border into Haiti to see how it was done. “[Haiti’s tourism] was bigger than in the Dominican Republic,” Ranieri says.
A New Dawn for Haiti Tourism?
A New Dawn for Haiti Tourism?
i lived there for a year in 1979..
we had ibo beach, ibo lele, the oloffson, kaliko beach, club med, various hotels in Petionville where I never went except for lunch once..
there are old hotels in Cap Haitian...
the tourism industry in Haiti was very well developed.
long before there were links to post
that is why the Clintons went there on their honeymoon
oloffson rooms let me see
mick jagger
grahame greene
jonathan demme
a very world class destination
omg.. habitation le clerc?
Katherine Dunham studying dance...
ay it... ayiti has a rich and full history since the 50s
david x young..
it was a DESTINATION
sadly sorta gone.. at least the secure paradise end of it all..
oloffson rooms let me see
mick jagger
grahame greene
jonathan demme
a very world class destination
omg.. habitation le clerc?
Katherine Dunham studying dance...
ay it... ayiti has a rich and full history since the 50s
david x young..
it was a DESTINATION
sadly sorta gone.. at least the secure paradise end of it all..
i should say that it has a rich and full history since 1492
just search Amazon on Haiti
then go to the Dominican Republic search...
just search Amazon on Haiti
then go to the Dominican Republic search...
Habitation Leclerc - YouTube
Accueil - Kaliko Beach Club
these were in full swing... kaliko is about the only one that i have heard of on the coast that is the same as when i was there
Accueil - Kaliko Beach Club
these were in full swing... kaliko is about the only one that i have heard of on the coast that is the same as when i was there
You have not answered my question, surely there must still be some sort or archive to prove your claim, please provide for all us on this forum to see.
Someone somewhere must still have photos of this "glamor" you speak of, please provide.
i did not have a camera
there was no internet
please do not believe me if you think that i am prevaricating