Restaurant News
Café Brasserie, located at the Renaissance Resort recently introduced their new menu, which includes sushi, shrimps and prime ribs. The new buffet named “Super bountiful buffet” offers an endless list of great fresh salads, pastas, cheeses and many other delicious goodies. The restaurant is open daily from 6-10 PM and reservations can be made at 297-5836000.
Pincho’s Grill & Bar has recently opened on the pier behind the new Aruba Surfside Marina, located diagonally across the Talk of the Town Resort. This new restaurant offers a romantic and casual atmosphere and is ideal to enjoy a beautiful sunset. Their specialty are pincho’s. It seats 70 comfortably. “A fusion of passions, food, beverage, service and atmosphere” is their slogan.
The Aruban restaurants, Waterfront Crabhouse, Sunset Grille, L.G. Smith Steak and Chop House, Amazonia Churrascaria, Ruinas del Mar, Pago Pago, Pasion, Aqua Grill and The Captain’s Table received the “Great American Quality Award”. This award was presented by Omar Gonzales, Director of the Caribbean Basin Agriculture Trade Office and Mrs. Margie Bauer, Director of the Foreign Agricultural Service of Florida. to those Aruban restaurants that use only the best ingredients & come up with new and innovative creations within their menus, according the American USDA criteria’s.
Hotel News
Aruba Surfside Marina has been completed and is now open to the public. The establishment located diagonally of the Talk of the Town resort consists of 5 ocean and beachfront suites in an intimate surrounding. It offers a grand suite, a one-bedroom suite and additional studios. The rooms are equipped with ADSL high-speed Internet service, cable television, direct dial telephone, semi-kitchenette facilities, private bathroom, air-conditioning, in-room safes and iron/iron boards.
The marina is also home of two of Aruba’s newest features: Pinchos Grill and Bar and the exciting water sport activity “Rhino Rider water safari”. Its located just 3 minute away from Oranjestad and a short drive from the airport, making it easy accessible. For more information, please contact them at 297-5830300 or e-mail ianthe@arubasurfsidemarina.com
The Radissson offers summer family value starting June 1 through Sept. 30, 2004,with their One Cool Family package rates begin at $179 per room, per night, and kids 11 and under, sharing the same room with their parents, stay, eat and play for free. Or, parents who think their kids are cool to hang out with during the day but want a reprieve at night can book a second room just for them at 50 percent off the price of the first room. Additionally, the resort’s Kids Club morning program is complimentary for kids 11 and under and each family receives a resort souvenir to accompany memories of sun, sand and quality time.
To entertain youngsters after dinner, Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino features Family Night at the Movies, taking place each Wednesday free of charge, showcasing the latest G-rated blockbusters. Family Day, a Guest Enrichment program entailing a fun-filled day of flying kites, building sandcastles and a picnic lunch at the beach, is also popular for creating lasting memories. The cost ranges from $12.50-20 per person.
The One Cool Family Summer program offers complimentary supervised children’s activities at the Radisson’s Kid’s Club, daily from 8 a.m. until noon. Fun activities include Behind the Scenes Hotel Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Beachside Soccer and Fun Swim. For more information and reservations, call Radisson at (800) 333-3333, the resort directly at (297) 5866555 or visit www.radisson.com/aruba.
After months of renovation, the meeting rooms of the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort Aruba, now reflects the surrounding tropical landscape. Long a favorite for executive corporate events, business seminars, and themed banquets, the Holiday Inn SunSpree® Resort Aruba is ready for guests to enjoy its fresh new look and expanded space. The Holiday Inn SunSpree® Resort Aruba has 6,058 square feet of total meeting space, with individually controlled lighting, projection booth, sound system, and other audio-visual equipment, data ports (including a confidential phone line) and the entire property is Wi-Fi.
A stage area, dressing room, and three levels of conference space provide flexible accommodations for intimate executive conferences, sales seminars, and receptions. In addition to the new look, the meeting rooms now bear names befitting the island setting: Las Palmas, Cadushi (a type of cactus), and the new Casibari Room (in honor of Aruba's famous rock formations. For more information about the resort's renovated and expanded meeting space, to plan an event, or to make group reservations, please contact Arlene Satchell at 1-866-3-SUNSPREE.
