ORIENT-EXPRESS HOTELS IN MEXICO OFFERING TRAVELERS AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES

10-20-2009

  

 

Studies Show American Travelers Venturing To Mexico Now More Than Ever

 

 

 

Mexico (October 15, 2009) – Casa de Sierra Nevada and Maroma Resort and Spa, both unique, boutique Orient-Express hotels set in exclusive locations in the heart of Mexico, are now offering authentic experiences for visitors to partake in during their stay. In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Casa de Sierra Nevada invites guests to roll up their sleeves and join the market tour and cooking class at the hotel’s Sazón cooking school. In the Riviera Maya, Maroma Resort and Spa offers guests an opportunity to experience a private tour of the Muyil Ruins, surrounding nature with a trilingual guide and the Muyil lagoon. For more information visit www.orient-express.com.

 

These authentic offerings come at a time when Americans are choosing to visit Mexico most. According to recent studies done by the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI), Mexico is the most-visited country for Americans for the second consecutive with more than 20,271,000 travelers venturing across the southern border into Mexico last year to experience its world famous beaches, rich culture and gastronomic delights. The close proximity of Mexico in addition to the value of the exchange rate may prove intriguing enough for some Americans, but add in an authentic Mexican experience and a beautiful hotel complete with delightful touches and unsurpassed service, and the experience becomes one to remember for a lifetime.

 

Casa de Sierra Nevada (www.casadesierranevada.com) in San Miguel de Allende – a city perched in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Central Mexico – offers vacationers a more culturally rich travel experience in one of their 37 rooms and suites spread out amongst the historic town. Casa de Sierra Nevada and Sazón, the cooking school owned and operated by the hotel, encourages guests to sign up for their Sazón Culinary Experience package. The market tour and cooking class will allow guests to experience the colorful San Miguel Market guided by one of their highly experienced chefs.  Guest will learn pointers for selecting the best of the seasonal products, and bring unfamiliar items back to the Sazón kitchen to complete the experience by cooking and tasting the final dish. Guests leave the class with the recipe to bring their experience home. The package also includes full daily breakfast in the hotel’s award winning Andanza or Casa del Parque restaurants and margaritas and snack upon arrival. After a morning cooking class, visitors can choose to continue their cultural lessons by participating in a local language, art or dance classes around town. Package rates from $260.00*

 

 

Maroma Resort and Spa (www.maromahotel.com) in the Riviera Maya, is now offering the best of both worlds for the most discerning of travelers. Known already for its “World’s Best Beach” as named by the Travel Channel, guests can choose to pry themselves away from this luxurious Mexican hideaway and venture off grounds on the Muyil Forest and Float tour. The private tour starts in the Muyil Ruins for a one-hour guided tour of the ruins and surrounding nature by a Mayan trilingual guide who points out rare, colorful birds and the poisonous, medicinal, and hallucinogenic value of the endemic plants. From there it is a short, historic walk to Muyil lagoon – a clear turquoise fresh water lagoon, for a boat ride into the center of the lagoon where guests can dive into the clear canal water to snorkel. The hotel is also happy to arrange for guests to take part in the Punta Allen Eco Adventure tour – an unforgettable one day journey to the most preserved portion of the Yucatan peninsula's coral reef. Guests will visit freshwater lagoons, the colorful estuary of Boca Paila, remote portions of Sian Ka'an and the Punta Allen community to see how the locals have been developing a conservation-oriented, profitable way of life using the ocean resources and their fishing expertise. If guests choose to visit Maroma in December, they may be able to experience the handcraft market organized by the hotel, who invites local artisans from different communities to offer their products to guests in an environment representative of a real Mexican market with music, decorations, drinks and some traditional candies. Room rates from $765.00. Packages not included.

 

*Prices are based on currency rate at time of release distribution and may vary.

 

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Orient-Express, (NYSE: OEH, www.orient-express.com) the name behind an elite collection of travel experiences, first came into being in 1883 as one of the world’s most exciting and indulgent train journeys.  Today those same two evocative words also embrace hotels, cruises and other luxury rail adventures in 25 countries, across five continents.  The Company has offered exceptional luxury travel experiences since 1976, when it first purchased Hotel Cipriani in Venice and then shortly afterwards, recreated the celebrated Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, linking London, Paris and Venice, along with other European cities.  Today, the company owns or part-owns and manages 49 businesses, 39 of which are highly acclaimed hotels, each unique in style, from the Mount Nelson in Cape Town and Rio’s Copacabana Palace, to the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg and Maroma Resort & Spa on Mexico’s Riviera Maya.  There are two restaurants, including ‘21’ in New York, two river cruise operations and six luxury trains.

 

 

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