Blue Diamond buys the Grand Paradise Bavaro Beach Resort

As he had announced in March 2012 arecoa.com, the leading tourism company in North America, Sunwing Travel Group, through the Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts, a division of the company officially announced the purchase of the Grand Paradise Bavaro Beach Resort, Casino and SPA which belongs to the Dominican capital hotel chain, Amhsa Marina.

Stephen Hunter, President & CEO of Sunwing Travel Group, said: «With increasing demand for Punta Cana and the shortage of rooms available, this target was the obvious choice for the next expansion of our hotel division.»

Hynter noted that «this is a popular resort that is already in a privileged location in front of a white sand beach perfect and we have ambitious plans to differentiate the resort under the Memories brand next year.»

In a press release sent to the drafting of arecoa.com reconfirms what already existed as a fact after months of negotiations that with immediate effect, the Blue Diamond team will make the operation of the resort which will continue to be operated as Grand Paradise Bavaro Beach Resort until April 30, 2013.

A bear that date, the resort will close for a period of six months to complete renovation, with changes and improvements will take you to the level of the standards «Memories Resorts» chain Blue Diamond. The resort reopened in November 2013 as «Memories Punta Cana Beach Resort and Spa» 5-star.

The resort is ideally located opposite the world famous Bavaro beach only 30 minutes from Punta Cana International Airport and has 1.029 rooms and suites. All guests are served by all-inclusive, with the extraordinary choice of six a la carte restaurants, two buffet restaurants and 10 bars located throughout the resort.

This acquisition represents the second to Blue Diamond resort is owned and operated by the chain, after the recent acquisition of Breezes Trelawny, Jamaica, which was owned by Super Clubs. This resort is currently being renovated with an investment of $ 40 million before reopening as «Memories White Sands Beach Resort & Spa» later this year.

About Blue Diamond:

Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts, a division of Sunwing Travel Group is an innovative hotel management company that specializes in creating differentiated brands to meet the specific demands of different markets. It currently operates over 3,500 rooms in all-inclusive resorts in Latin America and the Caribbean under the brands «Memories Beach Resorts» and «Royalton Luxury Resorts.»