What a chain's name promises, and how consistently its properties keep it.
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The three Sandals resorts closed by Hurricane Melissa return in November and December 2026 after a $200 million rebuild. Reopening dates, what is actually changing, and where to stay in Jamaica in the meantime.
In 1969 the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic had no road, no hotel and no airport, and the place was called Drunkard's Point. Fifty years later it is the busiest airport in the country and one of the largest concentrations of all-inclusive rooms on earth. Almost none of that happened in the usual order.
Barceló started with a bus. Iberostar made shoes. RIU had eighty beds, Meliá had a lease and a 21-year-old. Four of the companies that run the Caribbean came off the same Mediterranean island within one generation, and that was not a coincidence.
