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Cayo Guillermo is a cay of the Jardines del Rey archipelago. It is located on the northern coast of Cuba , between the Bay of Dogs ( Bahia de Perros ) and the Atlantic Ocean . It is part of the Ciego de Ávila Province , and lies in the Morón municipality.
Kempinski Hotels S.A., commonly known as Kempinski, is a luxury hotel management company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in Berlin in 1897 as the Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft , the group currently operates 77 five-star hotels and residences in 35 countries.
To reach Cayo Coco, tourists had to fly to Máximo Gómez Airport on the mainland and then take a one-hour bus ride to the island. [1] In order to make travel to Cayo Coco more convenient, the Cuban government announced in 1999 that it would build a new airport on the island itself. [ 2 ]
Sunwing Travel Group became a subsidiary of the WestJet Group on May 1, 2023, following an acquisition announced in March 2022. This merger aimed to: Consolidate market share: By combining two major players in the Canadian travel industry, the acquisition significantly strengthens WestJet's position, particularly in vacation packages and sun destinations.
In November 2005, a Boeing 737-800 departing from Toronto to Santiago de Cuba was the airline's inaugural flight. [9] In December 2005, Sunwing flew its first direct flight from Sudbury, Ontario to Varadero, Cuba, making it one of the first international flights directly from the Sudbury Airport. [10]
Jardines del Rey developed on the coral reef system that lines Cuba's shore, between the Atlantic Ocean, the Bay of Buena Vista and Bay of Jiguey. The reef, part of the Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago, extends for two hundred kilometres (120 miles) on a north-west to south-east direction. Jardines del Rey Airport is located on Cayo Coco ...
The first resort, Guitart Cayo Coco (now the Hotel Colonial Cayo Coco), opened in 1993. [4] The Cuban exile group Alpha 66 attacked the resort with machine guns in 1994 and 1995, but there were no injuries. [5] Cayo Coco and the neighboring Cayo Guillermo provided settings for Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream [6] and The Old Man and the ...
El Senador is the original name of a luxury 4-star resort located in Cayo Coco, Cuba. It was owned as a joint venture between Cubanacan, a Cuban tourism company, and a syndicate of Canadian businesses. In December 2005 the Canadians sold their interest to an Anglo-Dutch syndicate, and the owners engaged the Spanish group NH Hotels as operator ...