Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We hope that your holidays are filled with magic, laughter, and with love, peace, and hope.
The Sandos Team wishes you Happy Holidays!
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The Sandos Cancun Luxury Experience Resort and Spa offer guests a unique, all-inclusive dining plan, the Total Gourmet Experience. One of the special culinary options included in this plan is found in Seasons Restaurant where Head Chef Victor Cano has developed an extensive avant guard menu in our molecular kitchen.
Molecular cuisine applies principals of chemistry to extract rich flavors from the molecules that make up foods such as produce, meats, and herbs. These molecules are extracted and the compositions and textures are changed into forms such as liquid reductions, warm jellies, airy foams, flavored pastas, and faux caviars. A classic example on the Seasons’ menu, and one of Chef Cano’s favorites, is the Cajun-crusted tuna which consists of a tuna cube rubbed in Cajun spices and accompanied aspic (jelly citrus) in case of tomato, mixed greens and vinaigrette axiote.
Seasons will offer special a la carte dinners for both our Christmas and New Year celebrations. Guests arriving throughout the year have the opportunity to sample the rich flavors and unique gourmet creations which are always based on the use of seasonal produce.
Chef Cano and the staff at Cancun Luxury Experience Resort and Spa invite all of our guests to come and sample the extensive menu they have prepared and learn more about the very unique culinary art of molecular gastronomy.
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On December 1, 2012 Sandos Playacar Resort and Spa completed a lengthy project of extensive renovations in the Hacienda Section of the property. These hacienda-style suites now feature a fresh, minimalistic interior design and spacious private areas that combine to offer the ideal lodging option for couples and families.
Couples visiting Sandos Playacar will enjoy the quiet, romantic setting of the Hacienda Section, which features private outdoor pools and Jacuzzis. Families can take advantage of connecting rooms, which allow groups to book the suites together and share special vacation moments in the indoor and outdoor spaces.
Ideally located along the ”Camino de Salud” (Path of Health), an interpretive nature path, these suites feature outdoor patios set among lush tropical plants. Visitors can view a wide variety of birds and animals directly from these outdoor spaces, all of which lies just a short walk from the our pristine Playacar beach.
Sandos Playacar invites new and returning guests to book a hacienda suite for a unique and relaxing vacation in Playacar.
Since 2010, Sandos Playacar has been offering much needed support to communities in the Riviera Maya through our donation program. On Saturday December 15, 2012 this program became formalized into Ayudanos a Ayudar (Help us Help). Our Sandistas in our Playacar hotel have consistently volunteered their time and donated usable household and personal items to social organizations in Playa del Carmen for distribution to low-income families and individuals.
Sandos will now officially expand this program to invite guests to donate new and used items in our lobby donation centers. The items collected will be delivered directly to the rural Mayan communities of Cholul, Santa Cruz, and Cocoyol in southern Quintana Yucatan.
The Ayudanos Ayudar program has been designed to encourage guests and Sandistas to participate in practices related to Sandos underlying mission of sustainable tourism. By donating new and used items guests can offer direct and useful economic support to communities in need. At the same time, Sandos is able to donate usable items such as sheets, pillows, and household appliances, which allows us to reduce waste.
Sandos appreciates the dedication of the staff members who have headed this project, Guadelpude Barron (Eco), Humberto Marin (Director of Housekeeping), and Enrique Perez (Web Relations) with key support from hotel director Ivan Tapia and from the maintenance and Eco Club staff . Like many projects and at Sandos the launch of the Ayudanos a Ayudar program is a testament of our commitment to creating innovation and sustainable tourism programs. We invite guests to stop by the lobby donation center and donate new or used goods during your stay with us.
Christmas has already come to our Spanish hotels, Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf (Tenerife), Sandos Papagayo Beach Resort (Lanzarote) and Sandos Monaco Beach Hotel & Spa Adults Only (Benidorm).
The hotels are full of Christmas trees, reindeers, Santa Claus, snow and pasque flowers. Meanwhile, the sun is keeping our pools and terraces warm.
Don’t miss the best pictures on our Facebook pages:
www.facebook.com/SandosPapagayo
www.facebook.com/SandosSanBlas
Merry Christmas!!
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Ingredients:
• 1 duck breast
• 700 grams of salt (depending on the size of the breast)
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon of duck fat or extra virgin olive oil
Preparation:
• Clean and dry the duck
• Place salt in small container
• Lay duck breast on salt bed and store in cold area for 12-20 hours
• Remove the salt
• Mix black pepper with duck fat and baste the breast in this mixture
• Place breast on a skewer or hook for curing
For high quality duck ham it is important to keep the duck in a cool, dry and draft-free area. If you have to put in the open, cover the breast with a fabric.
Curing time depends on size, climate, and humidity. If you have limited time to prepare the duck ham, buy a thinner piece of meat, and once it is almost cured, cut it into slices.
This will accelerate the drying, although thicker pieces will be more juicy.
It is very important to always keep the meat at a low temperature (between 4 and 10 degrees C)
Enjoy, Jose Maria Trujillo, Sandos San Blas chef.
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Sandos San Blas Nature Resort and Golf, our eco resort located in Tenerife (Canary Islands) was present at the wedding fair, Feboda, in Tenerife, where we presented a booth with extensive information about our unique wedding services in our San Blas eco resort.
The seventh annual Feboda highlighted the latest developments in the world of weddings, including banquets, dresses, hairstyles, gifts and wedding trends. Sandos San Blas offered a small-scale stage overlooking the sea to offer fairgoers a firsthand experience of celebrating a wedding in an authentic environmental reserve.
We are excited to share our photos from this special event, and we invite visitors to explore more information about our unique wedding services.
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Sandos Caracol Eco Resort and Spa was very pleased to host a recent visit from Thomas Cook’s new Kids First Family Vacations Program. This unique new program offers video reviews of family friendly vacation destinations hosted by children who are visiting resorts with their families. The on-camera reports offer in depth information about family friendly features and programs for children.
Sandos Caracol is excited to have our Eco program, water park, Kids Club, mini disco, and resident animals and wildlife featured by this exciting new travel program. We hope you and your family will view the excellent video footage and schedule a visit to Sandos Caracol Eco Resort and Spa to enjoy a fun-filled, educational family vacation in our stunning beachfront location.
The hotel chain Sandos has been present in the World Travel Market, a leading global event for the travel industry, that is taking place these days in London.
Some company representatives have traveled to London to introduce news about the hotels and to meet with clients, travel agencies, tour operators and tourism professional from all nationalities.
In other news, the Sandos Hotels team has introduced our first Adults Only hotel in Spain, Sandos Monaco (Benidorm) and some new international projects that will be launched next year. Also, our New Era event that will take place in Sandos Caracol on December 21st and 22nd to mark the end of the Mayan Longcount calendar.
