The St. Regis group added its 21st property with the opening of the St. Regis Bahía Beach in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, on November 4. Located 25 miles east of San Juan, the 483-acre beachfront resort has 139 rooms with private terraces overlooking either the vast blue of the Atlantic …
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Sneak Peek: Taj Falaknuma Palace
After nearly a decade-long restoration, the Falaknuma Palace opened as a Taj hotel in Hyderabad, India, on November 1. Built in 1884, Taj Falaknuma Palace (Falaknuma translates to “Mirror of the Sky”) sits atop a 2,000-foot-high hill and is surrounded by 32 acres of Mughal-, Rajasthani-, and Japanese-style gardens. It …
Sneak Peek: GoldenEye Hotel and Resort
Scheduled to reopen November 12 after a two-year renovation, the GoldenEye Hotel and Resort in Oracabessa, Jamaica, was originally the Caribbean hideaway of world-renowned author Ian Fleming, best known as the creator of James Bond. More than a decade after Fleming’s passing in 1964, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer …
Leisure: Above and Beyond Par
My approach shot to the 15th hole at Mayakoba’s El Camaleón course has caught the greenside bunker. It is not my first time in the sand today. I have been struggling, and now I need to get up and down to help out my teammates—one of whom decides that now …
Leisure: Above and Beyond Par: Going Pro
When selecting a pro-am tournament, you should consider the obvious (quality of course, strength of field) and the not-so obvious (three rather than four amateurs per pro, walking and caddies, tee times rather than shotgun starts, additional special events). Individual spots typically cost between ,000 and ,000 and may include …