Pictured here Ed Malone, at the just reopened Talk of the Town Hotel, being interviewed by ATV. The place, in Ed’s words, is indeed radically changed. The most dramatic difference is the entrance which leads to the cool, newly-tiled lobby and the adjacent pool bar. Ed’s dry sense of humor comes to life, when he discusses the process of naming the revamped outlets. Visitors, he says, just refer to the watering hole as a bar and to the breakfast corner as the restaurant, thus management gave up on inventing fancy names which no one uses and opted for the obvious.
The Talk of the Town bar now occupies the entire terrace, in close proximity to the meeting room where the Kiwanis convene each week; and the restaurant has been relegated to the side of the pool, to a quieter area. It all looks very tropical and inviting in terracotta and a million shades of orange and yellow, with some sage accents. Ed's company Down Island Resorts & Inns and his partners, a Venezuelan hotel company, are over the rebuilding, adrenaline-pumping process and are now focused on filling the resort and bringing the locals who are sentimental about the property, back. Now a director on the board of the Aruba Hotel & Tourism Association, Malone is also the former President of the Caribbean Hotel Association . . .
