Palm Beach -- The Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino entertained top meeting planners last weekend. All meeting planners were from important Incentives Houses in the USA and everyone invited had the potential to book groups into the resort. Since the incentive customers all prefer warm weather destinations, the dignitaries were here to sample group inclusive options, great service, spa and golf.
They also enjoyed an action-packed last day on the island which included breakfast at the hotel’s Mira Solo martini bar overlooking the beach, followed by a short briefing by De Palm Tours and a Jeep Safari Tour, fondly known as Shake & Bake.
Dust covered and giddy from the sites and sounds, the caravan stopped for lunch at Tierra Del Sol’s Ventanas del Mar restaurant. Some participants stayed for a short 9-hole golf game but most retired to the oceanfront Larimar Spa, back at the resort.
In the evening for their farewell party on the beach De Palm Tour created an impressive Pangea lounge, with pan-universal décor mixing a life size state of Buddha, Persian carpets, candelabras, special light effects, an Indonesian dragon, Balinese statuesque and an authentic belly dancer which emerged from the dark sea, just before the delicious dessert – Caribbean canolli - was served.
The belly dancer enchanted the meeting planners with her pelvic rotations and gyrations. She was escorted by a good-looking torch bearer leading her way up the beach. Local well-known decorator Fernando Mansur, helped conceived the unforgettable evening complemented by the first class cuisine of the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino culinary team featuring the James Beard house Caribbean menu.
After dinner the Kukoo Kunuku, rated # 1 by "E" Entertainment TV as favorite tour in Aruba, picked up the dignitaries for a bar-hopping adventure.
They danced all night we hear, riding the wacky, wonderful, one-of-a-kind paranda bus, hand painted and cooled by the Caribbean trade winds and absolute FUN on wheels . . .
