{"id":112070,"date":"2018-05-08T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=112070"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:16:37","slug":"forbes-highlights-vip-guest-lounge-at-punta-cana-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/forbes-highlights-vip-guest-lounge-at-punta-cana-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes highlights VIP guest lounge at Punta Cana International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111944\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111944\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PUJ2-8654-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Punta Cana Airport VIP \/ Lounge Club PUJ2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forbes is among the international press to highlight the airport pool lounge opened in the VIP area at the Punta Cana International Airport. The new facility is a way of squeezing out the last minute of water and sun prior to departing Punta Cana sun and sand destination.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Olmsted, a Forbes contributor, writes: \u201cIt will be hard to miss your flight when you can see your plane arriving from the swimming pool,\u201d he writes. He observes that the Punta Cana airport lounge has outclassed other VIP waiting areas around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently there have been a slate of new lounge openings and one-upmanship in the airline industry, including the excellent and still growing American Express Centurion Lounge network (read more here) and the ongoing roll-out of the United Polaris Lounge product. But one Caribbean airport just upped that ante with its resort-style approach to putting fun back into air travel,\u201d he writes referring to the VIP guest lounge at the Punta Cana International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airport was already one of the world\u2019s fastest, most hassle free and user friendly foreign gateways for arrivals, but now it is equally impressive on your day of departure. The lounge\u2019s flagship feature is an infinity edge swimming pool &#8211; outdoors &#8211; overlooking the tarmac, and it was designed by famed Dominican architect, Antonio Segundo Imbert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larryolmsted\/2018\/05\/05\/the-newest-airport-lounge-amenity-for-luxury-travelers-a-swimming-pool\/#13fa4fac5e70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes is among the international press to highlight the airport pool lounge opened in the VIP area at the Punta Cana International Airport. The new facility is a way of squeezing out the last minute of water and sun prior to departing Punta Cana sun and sand destination. Larry Olmsted, a Forbes contributor, writes: \u201cIt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/forbes-highlights-vip-guest-lounge-at-punta-cana-international-airport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}