2013 Travel News Archive – Page 2

Now is the time to book into the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and enjoy a great show with Marc Anthony & Prince Royce plus all the pleasures of a beach vacation. The Puerto Rican salsa and ballad singer is booked for a 15 December concert. Anthony, described as the top selling salsa artist of …

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Bahia Principe is marketing its brand new adults-only Hotel Luxury Bahia Principe Bounganville Don Pablo Collection in the Playa Nueva Romana section, midway between Juan Dolio and La Romana destinations. The hotel just opened in November and features 244 junior deluxe suites and junior seaview suites distributed in villas on the property. The hotel offers …

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Families traveling to Punta Cana have a new property to consider. The brand new Memories Splash Punta Cana with 525 rooms features its own Splash Water Park with splash pads, spray grounds, tubes, a wave pool and water slides. Located on Bavaro Beach the hotel has a themed club for children, teenagers’ playroom and Wi-Fi …

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Relais & Chateaux announces that Eden Roc at Cap Cana will be its first hotel in the Dominican Republic. Each of the freestanding suites includes a pool and complimentary Wi-Fi. Eden Roc is one of the chain’s seven luxury hotels in the Caribbean. The others are Montpelier Plantation & Beach in Nevis, Hotel Le Toiny …

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MSC Musica has chosen Santo Domingo’s Sans Souci Port as homeport prior to the ship taking its passengers on a southern Caribbean route cruise. The ship stops at La Romana, St. Martin, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Antigua, and Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. This is the largest ship to dock in Santo Domingo. An estimated 50,000 …

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The final stretch of the 2013-2014 Winter Baseball Season is starting now, with the regular season that defines the four teams that will play the round robin to decide the playoffs ending 22 December. The teams will resume the games as of the 27 of December, continuing on 28, 29, 30 December. The league then …

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Traveling to La Romana from Santo Domingo now takes less than an hour-and-a-half as the new overpasses and express highway connecting San Pedro de Macoris with La Romana are open. On 30 November, the La Romana city bypass will open to the general public meaning it should take an hour to commute from La Romana …

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While Punta Cana does not have a mega convention center, it does have two centers with capacity for more than 3,000 people theater-style and a new one for 1,400 people. Newest in the area is the Palma Real Paradisus Convention Center in Bavaro that opened recently with the III Hopefor Initiative for disaster prevention and …

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Casinos are offered as another amenity at most resort and city hotels, located in Punta Cana, Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, La Romana, Samana, Boca Chica, Juan Dolio and San Francisco de Macoris. Punta Cana is the Dominican destination with the most casinos, 18. Most are located within the premises of the beach and golf destination’s …

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The Dominican Republic took three of the top 10 positions on the list of 25 top all-inclusive resorts all around the world voted by Trip Advisor online review site. The Iberostar Grand Bavaro Hotel in Punta Cana was seventh on the list, The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real was ninth, and the Luxury Bahia Principe …

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