August 26, 2009 PLAYA BLANCA HOTEL ANNOUNCES THE OFFER OF A SPECIAL WEEK FOR REPEAT GUESTS.
 It will take place from November 15th to November 23rd. The main goals of this special week are to have a delicate detail with our repeat guests and to carry on a group of activities that have been prepared just for the occasion and on behave of the beginning of the season 2009-2010 under our new name: Playa Blanca
Among the courtesies and activities, we will develop throughout this week are:
  • Welcome cocktail
  • Personalized check in
  • Upgrade Ocean View Rooms (according to availability), and courtesies
  • Special show devoted to our repeat guests
  • Special Repeat Guest Dinner at “El Ranchón” with lobster
  • Special Happy Hour devoted to our repeat guests
  • Special dinner and show at the swimming pool
  • Meeting of the repeat guests with the management of Cayo Largo at the Museum
  • A special certificate for their condition of “repeat guest”
  • Photographs that will be placed at the Museum and at the hotel website
  • Openning of the Forest of Friendship. Plantation of trees
  • Openning of the Repeat Guest Spot
  • Participation in the launch of the ranking of the hotel repeat guests on internet for the first time
  • Late check out free (according to availability)
  • Farewell Cocktail
  • Coverage in current time of all the activities throughout Cayo Largo and Playa Blanca Family Websites
  All repeat guests that are planning to visit us in these days (November 15th – 23rd) should specify their condition of “repeat guest” when making the booking.

May 25, 2009  

REPEAT GUESTS COME BACK TO OUR HOTEL UNDER THE NEW NAME PLAYA BLANCA

 In a flight from Canada arrived to our hotel the first repeat guests from that market since on May the first started to operate the former Barceló Cayo Largo under the new name Playa Blanca.

The big family now of Playa Blanca Hotel will continue enjoying the same special treatment as it was before. Special dinner, late check out free if availability, being member of the website dedicated to our faithful clients are some of the facilities they will keep enjoying.

Playa Blanca was during the latest high season the hotel with the highest repeat guests’ level, a record that we hope to keep during the next season.


MARCH 26, 2009                   LOUISA AND GUY, AS PART OF OUR GREAT FAMILY ARE BACK IN OUR HOTEL ONCE AGAIN.
 Louisa and Guy, loyal repeat guests of Barceló Cayo Largo Hotel are back and now for 14 nights this time
 The place where this picture was taken could not be a better spot, this couple together with the entertainment staff where they spend most of their time and one of the reasons why Louisa is an outstanding student in Spanish lessons and she is able to talk with any Cuban already. 

 You can always see these happy clients talking with workers, participating in all the activity entertainers organize or enjoying a tasteful cocktail with our barmen, it is what you can see, they are part of our great family Barceló, we had the chance to see them before they leave at the airport and they just say…¨see you in November¨.


MARCH 19, 2009               CANADIAN MARKET GROWS IN HOTEL BARCELÓ A 29% DURING FEBRUARY.
 Canada  has continuously increased its growth in significant form in the emission of clients to the destiny Cayo Largo and specially to Barceló Hotel.
 The closing of the month of February, the Canadian market showed a significant growth with respect to equal period of the previous year of a 29%, giving this market the first place of emission of tourists and it represents the 68,8%  of market of this hotel.

 It is significant in this market, the amount of repeat clients, for whom the hotel has prepared a loyalty program, that counts on Special Dinners, a customized Web site for them, among others action.


MARCH 17, 2009 BACK IN  BARCELÓ DAVID AND LINDA, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS FROM CAYO LARGO
 It is the second time in this year, visit number 17th at  Barceló Hotel CL in the 5 years of operations and the 23rd the destiny , where they will be this time for 14 nights.
 

David and Linda  always very glad, they can be seen at very early hours in the morning  crossing our beaches, as if they do not want the Sun to go ahead to them or sharing a joke with our workers, taking their morning coffee in the Lobby bar.

 He feels the hotel like his house, we call David  ¨Santi  Clo¨, by his white beard and its heavy body, Linda is possible to be seen knocking on doors of the offices to give the workers good morning, who already have become part of their family.

 Answering the question  of Why they return every year up to three times to the Hotel? they do not doubt in responding and with special tone and shinning eyes, say to us, We returned for their people.

ALEX AMONG US, ONCE AGAIN

 When we heard the news we didn’t believe it. Alex, the youngest repeat client of Barceló Hotel and his parents were back in the resort. Two weeks ago we said good bye to them at the lobby with a huge kiss of receptionists, bell boys, entertainers and some other workers who gathered there to see the expressive eyes of that kid which, for the first time, seemed to be hidden in the sadness of the farewell.

Once at his house, the boy kept the routine of calling his favorite workers who are not a few any more to become a growing long list. 

On Thursday April the 2nd Alex came back and now he shows with proud a shinning necklace that reads Cayo Largo and keeps as a trophy for his fidelity plus being an inseparable attire of his clothes.

His parents enjoy how the infant mixes with the  rest of the clients in one of the big hall of the buffet restaurant during the breakfast, also when he takes the little train to go to Paraiso beach or when he holds the hand of the public relation man to walk through out the hotel. 

 This family has visited our hotel three times this year. Cuba has been the chosen country in more than 17 occasions at places such as Holguín and Varadero but Cayo Largo del Sur and our resort specifically, has a magic that doesn’t allow them to think about another choice anymore say Adriana and Laurentiu, Alex’s parents.

Day by day we see the Barceló boy, as some people call him. His restless behavior does not surprise us anymore; it has become part of our daily life. There is not doubt about it; this little boy is a good example of the new generation who loves our hotel and will always do.


A DIFFERENT REPEAT GUEST
 Alex is a common kid, his green eyes and beautiful golden curly hair call the attention of any person that sees him sitting in his stroller or just in his father’s arms. But this 2 years and a half infant has something special that makes him call the attention at his young age. Alex loves and dreams with the Barceló Hotel.

His parents have been loving Cuba and its people for a long time now and they visited a lot of different locations until one day they decided to come to Cayo Largo.

At the beginning it was just another hotel till one day, destiny brought them here and from that moment on it has been the easiest decision to take any vacation time. Visiting Barceló.

 Alex has experienced, since the very beginning the warmth of our beaches, he has laughed of the jokes of barmen or he has been carried out in the arms of any working maids. His parents say that even in Montreal, the city where this little boy lives, he pretends being here and calls one of his favorite barmen to order the drinks he likes the most.  

   
 His face shines and his little heart gets bigger when it is disco baby time, he never misses one. He is even able to drink and even enjoy some soft drinks that he never tries at home. His love for the hotel makes him break the routine here although sometimes he is so tired he just can’t.

New clients reach Distinguished Guests category in Cayo Largo del Sur
 During last Sunday’s afternoon was held at Cayo Largo Museum House a meeting where it was given the important Distinguished Guest distinction to clients David and Linda Alber from Canada with 22 visits to our destiny, 16 of them to Barceló Cayo Largo Hotel and also to Elfriede and Dieter Teske from Germany who already have 30 visits since 1984 and stay in our resort right now. 

Distinguished Guests movement was created on February 20th, 2002 as a tribute to the 20th anniversary of Cayo Largo Foundation as a tourist destiny and since then, more than 50 clients hold the distinction.

Josée Seney and Michel Lemaire, DECLARED DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF CAYO LARGO DEL SUR. 

  The tourist destination gets dressed for a party again while declaring two of our faithful clients like Distinguished Guest of our Tourist Pole. .

  Josée Seney and Michel Lemaire   are lodged in the Barceló Cayo Largo Hotel and with this visit, they already add 24 times of coming to this Island of dreams. It was a very welcoming afternoon, accompanied by directives of the Gran Caribe Enterprise and those of the Hotel that welcomes them, certificates, gifts and the traditional pictures for the Museum House and the website were part of this activity.

 At night, a special dinner in their honor awaits in the Ranchón Restaurant of the Hotel and many other surprises. To accede to the album of pictures, click in the following link: Distinguished Guest


The news that are exposed in this page are elaborated and revised by the Commercial office of Playa Blanca Hotel, for what all emitted information is reliable.  

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