Manfred Schoebel announced the Sol Meliá hotel chain would build a
luxury 500-room hotel in the Punta Cana area. Schoebel, spokesman for the organization,
told Hoy newspaper that the newest construction would be one notch above its
other two properties in the Punta Cana area and would open in time for the 2005
winter season. Sol Meliá also operates the Meliá Tropical Caribe
and Paradisus in the Punta Cana region, in addition to the Santo Domingo Meliá in
the capital city.
The third East Coast Sol Meliá hotel will be built with the US traveler
in mind, said Schoebel, who also mentioned that Meliá Caribe Tropical
would soon offer golf suites for those traveling to play their Cocotal golf course
this winter. The first 40 golf suites will be available at year’s end, with
another 40 to join the market in 2004, and 40 more by the end of 2005.
The new hotel and golf suites will be built on the Meliá Caribe Tropical’s
500,000-square-meter property, of which only one third has been built up so far
to house the present 44 residential villas, 502 hotel rooms for groups and couples
and another 502 rooms that cater to family travelers. The hotel complex also
offers eight meeting rooms with capacity for 1,000. For more information, see http://www.dr1.com/directories/realestate/palmareal.shtml