2000 Travel News Archive – Page 17

US Airways is advertising great fares to the US for purchase up to Friday, 27 October for Tuesday-Thursday travel. These are: Baltimore US$320, Boston US$306, Chicago US$398, NY US$272, Hartford US$320, Philadelphia, US$272, Pittsburgh US$354, Washington, US$320. Several restrictions apply. For more information call Tel. 540-0505 in Santo Domingo. (3 October 2000)

If you have not already, book your hotel in Playa Dorada, Sosua or Cabarete to participate in the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. The event takes place next weekend in Sosua, Playa Dorada and Cabarete on the North Coast. Coming for the event, are several outstanding jazz and blues players. The schedule of the performances is …

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Minister of Sports Cesar Cedeño confirmed that the Dominican government is in the process of making the US$25 million deposit-guarantee for the hosting of the Pan Am Games in 2003. If Santo Domingo declines the site, the country would be penalized with this amount. Puerto Rican journalist Ray Garriga told the Listín Diario that the …

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Museo del Larimar opened at Isabel la Católica No. 54. Entrepreneur Jorge Caridad, who also successfully operates the Museo del Ambar since 1998 in Santo Domingo, developed this new museum. Caridad owns one of the leading gift shop/jewelry stores in the area. The museums give shoppers a perspective on what they are buying. (29 September …

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Ventura Serra, chief executive of Occidental Hoteles in the Dominican Republic, said that the pool area and adjacent gardens of the Embajador Hotel hotel are definitely not off limits to visitors to the hotel. He said that the use of the pool and tennis facilities is restricted to those that are not guests or members …

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