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Sandos Hotels awarded with TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Our hotels in Spain, Sandos Monaco Beach Hotel & Spa, Sandos Papagayo Beach Rerort and Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf have been awarded...

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Sandos San Blas and Sandos Papagayo, awarded by TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence

Category : Sandos News

Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf

Certificado Excelencia TripAdvisor PapagayoOur hotels Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf and Sandos Papagayo Beach Resort have been awarded a Certificate of Excellence 2012 by TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site.

This award recognizes stablishments that obtained a high punctuation by their customers, in fact, all the awarded had an average of 4 out of 5 points. This was a requirement for obtaining the award, the other requirement was having plenty of reviews.

TripAdvisor Certificado Excelencia Sandos San BlasSandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf, in Tenerife and Sandos Papagayo Beach Resort, in Lanzarote, have fulfilled these requirements and they obtained good reviews by their customers thanks to an excellent customer service and value.

The Certificate of Excellence is given to stablishments all over the world by a website that already exceeds 75 million comments, 50 million users and more than 600,000 hotels logged.

The Mayas’ health and beauty secrets, revealed

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Category : Sandos News, Uncategorized

Sandos Caracol Eco Resort & Spa (5 star hotel in Playa del Carmen, Mexico) recently presented Xcalacoco Experience to the world, a set of activities including health and beauty treatments inspired by the Mayas’ ancient wisdom.

Among a wide range of experiences, this hotel includes spa treatments such as the Ancient Mayan Ritual, using honey -a very healthy resource well known by the Maya for thousands of years- to moisturize, nourish and repair skin.

The sustainable use of local plants also inspired the Mayan Healing Ritual, a traditional technique of regeneration and hydration using Chaya and Aloe Vera to stimulate collagen natural production and repair sun-damaged skin.

Extracted from the Mayan medicinal wisdom deepest secrets, Ancient Well-Being is a special treatment based on the benefits of cactus and cucumber, which due to their high content of vitamins, amino acids and proteins give your skin a long-lasting moisturizing effect. It helps to prevent flaccidity and protects against premature aging by stimulating cell regeneration.

Spa treatments are complementary to other activities offered by Xcalacoco Experience: walking tours, bicycle and boat, swimming in cenotes, visiting the aviary, encounters with deers, but also environmental awareness activities such as the ‘Plant a tree’ programme. The wellbeing of body and soul also inspired the ancient ritual of Temazcal, called zumpul-che by the Maya, a steam bath with aromatic herbs. This practice has survived from the ages thanks to several native communities’ traditions. Its use is both therapeutic and relaxing as well as spiritual.

Sandos Caracol Eco Resort & Spa is located in front of a beautiful white sand beach in Riviera Maya, 15 minutes from Playa del Carmen and 45 minutes from Cancun International Airport. It consists of 78 villas with a total of 956 rooms and Junior Suites. It was built over a large area on the edge of the exotic jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation between cenotes, mangroves and natural lagoons, all set in an ecological environment ideal for those who like living within nature.

Born in Benidorm (Spain) in the 90’s, Sandos Hotels & Resorts is a growing company. After extending its borders to Mexico, has expansion plans in this country and Dominican Republic. Its business strategy is based on three pillars: differentiation, sustainability and innovation.

Tenerife Symphony Orchestra brings Chamber Music to Sandos San Blas

Category : Social

On Thursday June, 28th, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra offers a free concert in Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf’s Auditorium, as a part of Tenerife’s Chamber Music Series.

 

After finishing the annual season of concerts at Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s Auditorium, the Orchestra’s management decided to take their art to 10 locations on the island, San Miguel de Abona being among them. Due to the availabilty of the best facilities in the municipality for such events, San Miguel’s Council has appointed Sandos San Blas’ Hall to be the venue for the concert, wich will start at 20:30 hours.

The concert will include 4 pieces of Mendelssohn and 2 of Shostakovski, all of them for string octet. The first, Opus 20: Allegro moderato con fuoco, Andante, Scherzo, and Allegro and Presto leggierissimo; the second: Prelude and Scherzo of his op. 11.

The concert is offered to the public for free, no matter whether they are staying at the hotel or not. To attend the event as a spectator, all interested persons must be present at 20:00 hours, as the doors will close once the capacity is filled. The estimated duration is 50 minutes. Obviously, the presence at the performance in swimming trunks or costume, or in open shoes is forbidden.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, generally known in English-speaking countries as Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich: 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.

Sandos Hotels: a new ‘green’ tourism model

Category : Ecology

Sandos Hotels & Resorts has created a new green line of hotels, consisting of Sandos San Blas in Tenerife (Canary Islands) and Sandos Caracol in Riviera Maya (Mexico). Both have something in common that make them very different to any other accommodation: the natural areas that they protect and show to the travelers.

Sandos Caracol is an eco-resort whose design and building was made taking in consideration the natural wonder that surrounds. So, main attractions in the hotel are precisely its natural areas: beach and mangrove. In order to teach about the place’s history and biodiversity, Xcalacoco Experience was created as a collection of activities around Maya’s customs and relationship with environment.

More than a simply ecotouristic attraction, Sandos Caracol efforts are to offer to its guests five stars holidays with a minimum environment impact. It is the first hotel in the world using a homemade electric car with solar panels to carry clients and luggage; moreover they are using solar panels to heat water in rooms. But taking care of the Earth needs a social task too and it is made on one side with guests, who can go to environmental awareness and responsible tourism courses and on the other side with local community, helding collaborations with public institutions of Playa del Carmen (Quintana Roo) in beaches and underprivileged children care.

Thousands miles away, in Tenerife, Sandos San Blas Hotel hosts the Environmental Reserve under the same name. This is one little strip that has a great flora and fauna diversity, besides prehistoric settlements remains of first Canary people, the Guanches. Visiting this place is a must to this hotel’s guests, though being a guest is not a requirement to do the visit. There History and Nature join.

Both hotels apply environmental politics to their activity: in energetic matters every possible renewable energy is used, also efficient electric systems; in catering the point is to reach ‘slow food’ idea, so this way they can guarantee that every edible has been produced no more than 50 miles away and, if possible, in environmental respectful ways; also in water saving and lots of small gestures that make a big effort. These initiatives have been recognized, in all Sandos hotels, by Travelife Golden Award.

Sandos Hotels & Resorts shows this and more news in in International Tourism Show of Catalunya (held in Barcelona from April 20 to 22). Sandos is a sound company that nowadays administers six hotels, located in Spain and Mexico, and has development plans in Dominican Republic. The pillars of its strategy are innovation, differentiation and sustainability.

Sandos Caracol Eco-Resort & Spa pioneering Sustainability and eco-tourism in Mexico

Category : Ecology, Innovation

Featuring its own established Eco Club with environmental conservation programs, interactive green programming for guests and several innovative sustainability initiatives, Sandos Caracol Eco-Resort & Spa, has become a leader in eco-tourism in Mexico.

Developments completed in 2011

In 2011, the eco-resort continued its leadership in the sustainability trend in Mexico when it introduced 99 eco-friendly rooms that reduce carbon emissions by 70% and became the first resort in Mexico to develop, build and utilize a golf cart that functions solely on solar energy. The new eco-rooms at Sandos Caracol contribute to the care and preservation of the environment though distinct functions including:

  • Ultra-efficient low energy air conditioning systems
  •  Solar water heating systems in place of gas water heaters
  • Water recycling systems
  • Internal LED lighting
  • Furniture made of wood from certified forests

Most recently, Sandos Caracol began operating a solar energy-powered golf cart developed and built specifically for the resort to transport guests around the resort. With a total of six solar panels, the solar energy transformed to run the golf cart prevents the emission of 1,686 tons of carbon dioxide per year and is equivalent to having planted 34 trees.

In December 2011, Sandos Caracol Eco-Resort & Spa launched the new “Xcalacoco Experience,” a unique program that allows guests to discover the Mayan culture in distinctive natural surroundings. At Sandos Caracol, Xcalacoco is a way of being, living and thinking, and the programming in the Xcalacoco Experience allows guests to live Xcalacoco. Activities include an eco tour and archaeology route on which guests can observe Mayan ruins, witness Mayan ceremonies, visit with a Mayan herbalist, help plant indigenous species significant to the Mayan culture, and participate in natural treatments and ancient rituals at the spa. Through adventures in nature and environmental activities, guests will learn to reconnect with nature, respect the planet and lead sustainable lives.

Sandos Hotels and Resorts: Company Committed to Education

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Category : Social

On Friday April 29, Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa, represented by  Director Ruben Martinez Sanchez, recieved the Certification “Company Committed to Education“. Awarded at the Union of the CROC by  National Institute for Adult Education (INEA), this award recognizes Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa for our on-site adult education efforts.  The INEA awards certificates to companies that make significant efforts to ensure that their workplace supports the elimination of the educational achievement gap in Mexico.  It’s our goal to see all of our employees advance their educations and realize their career goals.

Through our Open Learning Program, Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa worked with 69 adult employees to evaluate their continuing education needs and provide academic coursework that will allow them to reenter and complete their primary or secondary diplomas.  We began this program in August, 2010, and have currently awarded 25 employees their primary and secondary school diplomas.  Our next goal is to earn the INEA certificate, “Company Free From Educational Gaps”.  We look forward to completing this goal by August, 2013, when we expect to graduate the remaining 45 students from the program.  In addition, in January, 2012 Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa Open Learning Program expanded employee education services to include an on-site open high school program.  We currently have 13 employees studying  towards the completion of their high school diplomas.

 

San Blas and children: activities and entertainment during Easter

Category : Sandos News

San Blas y los niños: actividades y animación en Semana Santa

Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf offers the coming weeksSandos San Blas a full entertainment program. For the time of Easter special workshops and games have been prepared for entertain children.

Activities dedicated to children allow their parents to enjoy this great hotel in Tenerife while the kids enjoy and learn. Fantastic hotel entertainers are responsible for children’s enjoyment from 10 am to 5 pm. Children under four years must be accompanied by their parents.

Usual days, kids can enjoy activities such as educational workshops bracelets, clay, salt, gardening and more. In these activities, children learn to construct their own toys and souvenirs from their stay in the Canary Islands.

For Easter, the hotel has special activities sure to delight children. On Wednesday installed a bouncy castle and prepared a tricycles circuit. To the delight of anglosaxon guests, decorating Easter eggs workshops have been organized and, of course, a treasure hunt as is tradition in those countries.

Of course, there is also room for fun and sports, water games, gymkhanas, paintings and more. To give small adventurous experience, have been prepared as thematic sessions held on Sunday, April 8, Indian Day, or the first Monday after Easter Day Cookies. The following Wednesday will be the Water Day, while Friday is Pirate Day. Children will live adventures around the hotel, always under the eye of professional entertainers of Hotel San Blas.

Groups of Birds seek Refuge from Canary Islands Drought in San Blas Enviromental Reserve

Category : Ecology

Picture by Ricardo and Rayco.

Drought in the Canary Islands is a very serious problem for farmers. The water tanks are almost empty and the environment is very arid. Some birdwatchers wonder lately where are the birds of the area. Well, the guides of the Environmental Reserve of Sandos San Blas have reported that in recent days have seen an increased presence of birds of different species in the area.

These officers, who in addition to dealing with visitors, are connoisseurs and lovers of local flora and fauna, have managed to identify at least 10 different species who are both native and common in addition to some migratory birds that had never been seen before in this Environmental Reserve , located in South Tenerife.

Due to lack of water, the dam of San Blas , not exploited for irrigation has become a haven for birds such as the Coot and the Gallinula. However, in this time of the year the Reserve’s star is indeed the Whistling Duck, a migratory bird that, in these months comes from America on his way to India and spend no less than four months in the Canary Islands, ‘in all inclusive board’, because places such as San Blas has more than enough food and water for the season. Once Reserve Managers have reached counting 50 of these specimens

“It’s a treat for our eyes,” said our friends from the Reserve. If you are fond of birds, come discover the Reserve, surely there are some sighting waiting for you.

Sandos Hotels commitment to segmentation

Category : Sandos News

Sandos Hotels & Resorts continues innovating. The last idea that is been applied to the managed hotels in Spain and Mexico is to create three product lines, according to the experience that each hotel offers the customer: Eco Experience, Beach Experience and Luxury Experience.

Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf (Tenerife) and Sandos Caracol Eco Resort & Spa (Riviera Maya) are included in the ‘green’ line or Eco Experience. So, guests of these hotels can enjoy environmental education activities and know about Canary and Mayan cultures.

The peculiarity of these hotels is to bring local traditions and ecological tourism, in a very special environment. El Caracol is surrounded by the Caribbean mangrove, whose wonders can be enjoyed thanks to the innovative project Xcalacoco Experience, while San Blas Reserva Ambiental has a unique landscape conserved as it was thousands of years ago.

Sandos Monaco Beach Hotel & Spa (Benidorm), Sandos Papagayo Beach Resort (Lanzarote) and Sandos Playacar Beach Resort (Riviera Maya), line up the ‘blue’, or Beach Experience, offering a comfortable and pleasant way to enjoy Levante, Papagayo and del Carmen beaches.

The latest acquisition of the chain, Sandos Cancun Luxury Experience Resort, represents the most exclusive of the chain. The ‘red’ line meets in this hotel located between the Caribbean Sea and Laguna Nichupte, with luxurious rooms, a modern spa, culinary experiences and more.

In one of these three lines will now be included all establishments that will be incorporated into the chain. The colors of the brand image and new names of hotels in Spain will reflect this new business strategy.

Born in Spain in the 90, Sandos Hotels & Resorts is a sound company. After extending its borders to Mexico, has expansion plans in this country and the Dominican Republic. The three pillars of its business strategy are differentiation, sustainability and innovation

Sandos hotels in Spain New Brand

Category : Sandos News

Sandos Hotels in Benidorm, Tenerife and Lanzarote renew their brand. They are wearing new look and new names. In an unprecedented communication campaign, Sandos Hotels denominations applied in accordance with services provided by each accommodation. Sandos Papagayo and Sandos San Blas has new Fan Pages on Facebook.

Sandos Hotels & Resorts has designed three product lines, that will include México and Spain resorts. These are the follow: Beach Experience, Luxury Experience and Eco Experience.

Sandos Monaco Beach Resort & Spa is on Beach Experience. One of the most rated hotels in Benidorm, since late last year is an Adults Only establishment. Its spa is probably the most modern and complete of the Costa Blanca.

Sandos Papagayo Beach Resort is on Beach Experience. First Sandos hotel in Spain and the favorite for families visiting Lanzarote, a unique destination for nature, adventure and relaxation.

Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf  is on Eco Experience. A unique hotel in the world, considered one of the best in Europe by Gotravel magazine, has an environmental reserve itself and is very close to one of the main golf courses in Tenerife: Golf del Sur.

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