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Short Takes

Programs & Packages

  • The Horseshoe Bay Resort, in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, is offering groups that actualize between Nov. 8, and Feb. 28, 2010, one complimentary golf foursome with each 10 room nights booked, including driving range access and shared carts. For example, a group with 100 room nights would get complimentary golf rounds for 40 attendees. Nightly rates start at $139 per room now through Feb. 2010. The Horseshoe Bay Resort Marriott offers 50,000 square feet of total meeting space. Planners can also arrange meeting breaks such as a quick round on the resort’s 18-hole Bermuda grass putting course. For more information, call 830.598.7880 or visit www.hsbresort.com.
  • St. Maarten’s Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino is offering its Two-For-One All-Inclusive…Plus, Plus Plus incentive package, valid for travel through Dec. 15, 2011, for bookings made by Jan. 31, 2010. All-inclusive meetings groups automatically receive a group rate discount, complimentary meeting space, 20 percent discount at The Good Life Spa, one complimentary upgrade to a one-bedroom suite at the group rate, one complimentary room per 30 room booked and one complimentary staff room. Incentive events include a dine-around in the Maho Plaza and a one-hour cocktail party, and island activities include a regatta and a sunset sail. Incentives with 80 to 100 room nights choose one food and beverage incentive; from 101 to 150 room nights, one food and beverage or island activities incentive; and over 151 room nights, one food and beverage and one island activities incentive. The resort offers more than 16,000 square feet of meeting space. For more information, call 800.223.0757 or visit www.sonesta.com/mahobeach.

Kudos

  • Group guests from The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun can team up with volunteers of the resort to help Mayan communities in need. The Mayan Acquaintance Experience is the resort’s VolunTeaming activity. Partnering with Kanche (www.kanche.org), a local nonprofit organization, the beachfront hotel is offering meeting professionals and group guests the opportunity to have an encounter with the Mayan culture through a full-day giving experience, where participants travel to a nearby village to join the locals on projects that will contribute to improve the rural conditions of the town—everything from painting and gardening to carpentry and furniture restoration tied to the upgrade of the town’s school. In addition, guests can also collaborate in implementing recycling programs to raise environmental awareness in the community. When partaking in The Mayan Acquaintance Experience, guests make a donation of $115 per person. Profits go directly to Kanche. For more information, call 011.52.998.881.0808 or visit www.ritzcarlton.com.