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Sandals or Beaches Sandals and Beaches Resorts is offering the Padi Discover Scuba Diving Experience for non- certified divers when they book via agents. The experience, which usually costs $100 per person, is available when agents book six nights or longer at any of the brands’ resorts in the Caribbean by December 7, for travel before Boxing Day 2020. sellingsandals.co.uk


Onyx’s first hotel in Japan to open in 2024 under Amari brand


Te Onyx Hospitality Group plans to open its first property in Japan in 2024. Te hotel management company


will open the 126-room Amari Niseko in the ski resort of Hirafu as a year-round leisure hotel, for skiing in the winter and hiking and biking in the summer. Te hotel will have studio


rooms, and one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites, plus a restaurant and cocktail bar. Te hotel will be part of Onyx’s


Tai-inspired contemporary brand Amari. Te group has also announced


three new-build hotels in eastern Tailand under its Amari, Shama and Ozo brands, including the 400-room Amari Jomtien Pataya, the 250-room Shama Wongamat Pataya and the 123-room Ozo Pratumnak Pataya. onyx-hospitality.com


Beach pool, Necker Island


BVI hotels open for bookings after extensive renovations


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Several properties renovated following hurricane Irma in 2017 are reopening in the British Virgin Islands. Among the hotels and resorts due to reopen is


Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island, which is taking bookings on a non-exclusive basis for the first time. Necker Island can accommodate 30 people but will


accept smaller groups of between eight and 15 people to share the property. It is available to book from June 2020. Te island is also available for individual bookings in one of 20 rooms during its Celebration Weeks. Te Valley Trunk Estate in Virgin Gorda will reopen


on December 3. It features eight suites, each with their own private deck. Exclusive hire of the estate starts at $12,000 a night for up to eight people. Each extra person is $1,500 per night. Rosewood Litle Dix Bay in Virgin Gorda is taking bookings for arrivals from March 1 next year. Te


Kempinski to restore historic Cuban building in style of its 1930s heyday


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Kempinski Hotels is to restore a historic building and former hotel that dates back more than 100 years in Cuba’s capital Havana. The 162-room Gran Hotel Bristol by Kempinski will replicate its 1930s to 1950s heyday. It will have a Presidential Suite, five restaurants and bars, a gym and a rooftop infinity pool. kempinski.com


$12k Price per night for Valley Trunk Estate for eight people


property will offer guests a 24-hour butler service. As a result of renovations, the all-suite property has reduced the number of rooms from 100 to 80. Rates start from $1,800 per night based on two sharing. Mango Bay Resort in Virgin Gorda and Wyndham


Lambert Beach in Tortola are scheduled to reopen in November. Island villas such as Baraka Point, Quito’s Gazebo and Inn and Maria’s by the Sea in Tortola have also been renovated. Biter End Yacht Club will open its Marina Village in


early 2020, with the rest of the resort to open in phases. Anegada Beach Club has added a small farm, from


which it plans to draw much of its produce, and will add five premium tents in 2020. bvitourism.co.uk


Hotel Riu Ocho Rios unveils first water park in Jamaica aer revamp


Riu Hotels & Resorts has opened its first water park in Jamaica after completing renovations at Hotel Riu Ocho Rios on Mammee Bay. Splash Water World includes five slides, a racing water slide and a funnel slide, as well as a kids’ pool with slides and swim-up bars. The hotel has also raised capacity to 901 rooms. riu.com


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