Meliá Hotels & Resorts

Gran Meliá Puerto Rico, Recipient of the Industry’s Most Distinguished Awards

Miami, Florida – Nestled on the northeastern shore of Puerto Rico, between the ocean and towering rainforest mountains, Gran Meliá Puerto Rico is uniquely poised to provide leisure and business guests with the Caribbean’s most luxurious resort experience, from its signature Royal Service, gourmet dining options and recreational activities, to professional meetings capabilities, pampering spa services and championship golf.

During its tenure as one of Puerto Rico’s most exceptional resorts, Gran Meliá Puerto Rico has garnered a distinguished array of accolades from some of the hotel industry’s most prestigious organizations.

Gran Meliá Puerto Rico has been awarded with the AAA Four-Diamond Award for three consecutive years, 2005-2007. AAA’s Diamond rating system is the most respected in the hotel industry and hotels must meet a list of strict criteria as determined by AAA tourism editors and trained professionals.

The resort is also the recipient of the 2004 Six Apple Award by Apple Vacations. Based on staff evaluations and the opinions of hundreds of thousands of Apple vacationers, only a select group of hotels earn this recognition, which is based on rigorous, luxury global standards.

Additionally, Gran Meliá Puerto Rico has received numerous honors from the meetings and incentive industry, among them Meetings and Conventions’ esteemed Gold Tee Award in 2006 and 2007. One of the industry’s most respected, it is bestowed to outstanding golf and meeting properties as selected by its readers, based on overall excellence. The resort also received the magazine’s Gold Key Award in 2007 for its meetings capabilities, professional services amenities.

One of the industry’s leading publication, Corporate Meetings and Incentives honored Gran MeliÁ Puerto Rico with its revered Paragon Award in 2006. The magazine evaluates hotels and resorts on meeting services’ quality, atmosphere, services, and recreational amenities.

Gran Meliá Puerto Rico features 486 deluxe suites with ocean, golf or mountain views and Royal Service suites with concierge and butler services. The resort offers fine dining restaurants with international cuisine and five bars. Recreational activities and amenities include two tennis courts and a basketball court, the non-motorized water sports and largest lagoon-style pool in Puerto Rico, a kids club and children’s pool, the full-service Yhi Spa, championship golf at nearby Coco Beach Golf and Country Club, and a daily program of activities and evening entertainment. The resort features 29,000 square feet of meetings space for up to 1,100. Gran Meliá Puerto Rico is located on Puerto Rico’s northeastern coast in Rio Grande, just a scenic 20 minutes from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and the Greater San Juan area, thanks to the recently inaugurated Route 66 highway, and is an AAA Four-Diamond resort.

About Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts
Founded in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca, Sol Meliá is the world's largest vacation company. More than half of the industry leader's hotels are located in cities and by far is the largest hotel chain in Spain as well as one of the most important in Europe . Sol Meliá's portfolio includes more than 350 hotels in 30 countries over four continents and it employs over 32.500 people in its Meliá, Me by Meliá, Tryp, Sol, Paradisus and Sol Meliá Vacation Club brands. For more information and reservation visit www.solmelia.com .