The Coral Canoa Beach Resort & Spa will be the third hotel to open up at the Dominicus beach strip in southeastern La Romana. The Coral Canoa is slated to open Monday, 1 November. It has 536 rooms (476 superior and deluxe, 40 junior suites, 16 penthouse suites and four one-bedroom villas with jacuzzi). The hotel will have four restaurants, five bars, a discotheque, pools, gym, game area, sports center, children’s club, tennis courts, amphitheater, two rooms for meetings (200 and 150 persons), and a spa area. The local Coral hotel chain invested US$30 million in the property. The company also announced plans to invest an additional US$34 million in expansion and improvements of its properties in the DR, including 90 additional rooms at the Coral Costa Caribe in Juan Dolio, a 200 room hotel in Samaná and another hotel in Santo Domingo. Other hotels along the Dominicus Beach strip are the Viva Dominicus, the Dominicus Palace (opening this winter) and the Gran Dominicus. The Gran Dominicus and Viva Dominicus primarily cater to the Italian tourist, the Dominicus Palace will attempt to attract the US market, and the Coral Canoa will receive primarily German tourists.
