Luxury Travel Advisor - September 2007 - (Page 76) THE PULSE HOT LEADS One&Only Resorts will operate its first Central America property in Cacique with 120 villa-style rooms in 2010. We hear the Regent Papagayo Bay will open the same year. www.oneandonlyresorts.com www.regenthotels.com The Jumeirah Southlands Resort on the South Shore of Bermuda has been given a Special Development Order Decree, or “the green light, to move forward with” out delay. Phase One opens in the first quarter of 2009. www.jumeirah.com Rosewood Hotels & Resorts appointed Carlos Salazar as the new managing director of Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort in Antigua. Salazar has management experience at properties including The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel in New York. Luxury travel advisors can contact him at carlos.salazar@rose woodhotels.com. www.rosewoodhotels.com Tokyo’s New Peninsula T he much-awaited and anticipated Peninsula Tokyo (www.peninsula. com) opened this month near the Otemachi financial district, the theater district, the Imperial Palace and Hibiya Park, offering plenty of options for the savvy sophisticates on your list. Averaging 579 square feet, we hear that the guest rooms are among the largest in Tokyo (Deluxe Suite shown above), with picturesque scopes of the city and park. VIPs whose needs are anything but basic should opt for the 3,730-square-foot, 23rd-floor Peninsula Suite, which commands views of the Imperial Gardens, Hibiya Park and Mount Fuji. Practically a hotel within a hotel, this palatial pad boasts its own minigym and kitchen where the hotel’s private chef will be happy to prepare a feast. Those who want to explore Tokyo in style can reserve some wheels from the hotel’s fleet of BMWs and Rolls-Royces (right). Contact Director of Sales Karim Meslem (karim meslem@peninsula.com; 81-3-6270-2510) to Mount Nelson Hotel, an Orient-Express property in Cape Town, South Africa, has appointed Andrew Cook as its new general manager. Cook joined the Mount Nelson staff in 1998 as rooms division manager, and has since served as the executive assistant manager and, most recently, hotel manager. Cook can be reached at acook@mountnel son.co.za. www.mountnelson.co.za book. Tip: Bespoke Tokyo (www.bespoketokyo.jp) offers exclusive access to the city’s most elite offerings. For more information about new hotels in Tokyo, see the May issue of Luxury Travel Advisor (www.luxuryta.com, click on “Past Issues”). 76 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR | September 2007 http://www.oneandonlyresorts.com http://www.regenthotels.com http://www.jumeirah.com http://www.peninsula.com http://www.peninsula.com http://www.rosewoodhotels.com http://www.bespoketokyo.jp http://www.luxuryta.com http://www.mountnelson.co.za
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