Regionally-focused eating places, smooth lobbies, considerate service and a reinvention of how lodges do pleased hour. Kimpton has at all times been a singular resort model; however it wasn’t till 2016 that the corporate really got here to the Caribbean, with the excellent Kimpton Seafire in Grand Cayman. It was one other six years later that the corporate opened its second resort within the area, with the Kimpton Alona in white-hot Tulum.
However issues are heating up. Final summer season, Kimpton opened its new resort on the island of Roatan off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, and this summer season one other one is making its debut within the area: the Kimpton Las Mercedes in Santo Domingo, the more and more capital of the Dominican Republic.
The 130-room resort can be set in Santo Domingo’s charming, 500-year-old Colonial Zone, inside a sixteenth century constructing that’s been reworked by designer Rafael Moneo.
In line with the model, it’s an immersion in Santo Domingo’s model of cool, with all the things from a rooftop pool to a cigar-and-rum lounge and a trio of eateries. Uniquely, eight of the rooms can be giant “rooftop suites.”
Different inclusions vary from a health heart to a mixture of occasion house to Kimpton signatures like yoga mats within the room and, sure, that well-known nightly “social hour” for friends.
The resort can be a gateway for friends to “uncover all that Santo Domingo has to supply,” IHG’s Paul Adan tells Caribbean Journal. (Kimpton is an IHG model).
“The resort will welcome guests and locals alike with its refined fashion, progressive eating places and bars and heartfelt service,” he says.
What’s attention-grabbing concerning the new Kimpton within the capital is that it is going to be the product of a partnership with Spanish resort big Iberostar, which can really be managing the resort — the primary time the 2 corporations have accomplished one thing like this collectively, one thing Iberostar’s Rodrigo Silveyra known as an “increasing relationship with IHG.”
The resort is already taking reservations for stays starting July 1.
Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone has been present process large-scale enhancements within the final decade because the Dominican Republic seeks to show the primary European settlement within the Americas right into a powerhouse tourism vacation spot, and it’s led to a palpable change as cafes, eating places, artwork galleries and, sure, boutique lodges have begun to refill the neighborhood.
