With the majority of Panama City hotels enforcing “no pet” policies, La Cresta de Oro short term private apartment rentals are the choice of travelers with pets.

Located in the San Francisco neighborhood of Panama City, just blocks from one of the cities largest parks, La Cresta de Oro offers two fully furnished pet proof and people ready apartments with amenities like wireless internet, cable tv, maid service, fully equipped kitchens, laundry facilities and dog walking services and of course air conditioning.

Guests may choose from a 3 bedroom, 3 bath ground floor unit or a hotel style studio second floor unit. A common courtyard and off street parking are available for guests also. No pets? no problem. La Cresta de Oro rents to people without pets too.

With its safe convenient location and friendly, helpful proprietors at hand ready to advise you on the ways of Panama, La Cresta de Oro is the best choice for your stay in Panama City!

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Playa Blanca Resort on the Panama Pacific is an all inclusive experience. Yes, if you stay at the Playa Blanca Resort you pay one set fee for everything. More than the reasonable prices, it is the experience at Playa Blanca Resort that brings visitors back again and again.

The experience starts the moment you check in, where you can choose an over-sized room with either two queen sized beds or one King. Your room also boasts spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and pristine beach.

After you settle into your luxurious room you can venture forth for tennis or play volley ball and soccer on the beach. There are dance and aerobics classes and two swimming pools with two Jacuzzis. For the evening the all inclusive experience can include concerts and musical reviews in the theater or dancing to salsa in the disco past midnight. For the adventure there is kayaking in the surf or a self guided tour of the coastline in a peddle boat

Whatever your cravings are you can be sure that you will satisfy them in Playa Blanca Resort. An International Buffet so big that you won’t be able to try it all in one day! A Japanese restaurant famous for its sushis or a Thai- Fusion restaurant right on the beach! You name it!

Playa Blanca Resort offers spectacular views in a tropical climate coupled with invigorating recreation or relaxation in privacy with discrete but attentive service. That is what “all inclusive” is supposed to mean. If one of the 219 rooms or 3 suites at Playa Blanca interests you, visit www.playablancaresort.com or contact Panama Travel Group at:

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The Place to see and be seen in 2010

Buddha-Bar Hotel & Spa is one of the most exciting projects coming to Panama. The internationally acclaimed brand is famous for its chic hotels, fabulous restaurants and nightlife and some of the past decade’s best electronic music compilations, which bear the same name. The project is unique because it is conversion as opposed to new construction. And like other exclusive international brands arriving on the isthmus of late, Panama is Buddha-Bar’s first-ever incursion into Latin America.

Work on Buddha-Bar’s first Latin American property is already under way here in Panama, a conversion project
of Hotel Crystal Suites on Via Brasil.
The eight-story hotel will be ready at the end of this year. It’s 90 full-service suites with contemporary Asian design are being sold as condo-hotel units. The popular amenities, like a signature restaurant, lounge and a rooftop bar will be open to the public in Panama.

“We are excited to be spearheading such a momentous milestone for the Buddha-Bar brand.” said developer Carlos Salinas of Venezuela “The result will be one of the most luxurious five-star developments in Panama’s thriving metropolis, which has proven to be an ultimate ‘hot spot’ for jet-setters.” Salinas also commented that Panama City’s cosmopolitan allure and popular tourist appeal were factors that played a key role in bringing the brand to Panama. He says: “Buddha-Bar will be the ‘it’ place to bring in 2010 at the hotel’s official opening on New Year’s Eve.”

Buddha-Bar has become an international craze in cities like London, Cairo, Paris, Beirut, and Dubai. Buddha-Bar Hotel & Spa caters to the most sophisticated clientele in “see and be seen” locations that offer avant-garde yet peaceful lodging including a Zen spa.

Converting an existing building allows the hotel to enter the market quickly, said Salinas: “We have 12 hotels in Europe under Hospes Hotels, and we always look for existing buildings that have lots of life in excellent locations.” The Buddha-Bar remodel has already begun on the Crystal Suites Hotel located on Via Brazil, near Punta Pacifica. For more information, visit www.buddhabarpanama.com

Article courtesy of The Visitor Newspaper, Panama’s Tourism Newspaper.

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Twenty-two hotel projects, with an investment of more than 569.2 million dollars, are currently being built in the country, according to reports provided by the Tourism Authority of Panama.

These projects are listed on the National Register of Tourism and enjoy the tax incentives granted by law 58 which expired December 28, 2006, which amended a section of the Act 8 of 1994.

Twelve of these projects are located in the heart of the capital city (for a total of 424.1 million dollars), two in the area of Amador (for $ 22 million) and three in the Casco Antiguo (by 65.1 million dollars) .

In the area of Farallon, Cocle Province, two projects are being developed with an investment of 46.2 million dollars, while in the city of David, Chiriqui, other tourist infrastructure is built at a cost of 8.5 million dollars and two in Santiago de Veraguas, worth 3.3 million dollars.

These projects provide accommodation over 4 thousand 816 rooms to the existing offerings, which until last year was 16 thousand 843 rooms across the country.

The Ritz Plaza Suites, Le Meridien, Trump Ocean, Casco Viejo, Central, Founder The I and II, Breezes Panama, Mikonos and David are part of these hotel projects being built and it is estimated that some of them are ready at the end of this year.

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The hospitality center is to be built in the former headquarters of APEDE will no longer have 156 rooms, but 300. And its opening is planned for 2012.

For months there was no movement on the ground of the former headquarters of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE), which will be the construction site of the Nikki Beach Hotel Panama City, with an investment of $ 60 million. But the project still stands.

“We did a redesign of architecture and engineering, because when the project was launched in November 2008, we had in mind making 156 rooms, but in November 2008 that changed to 300 rooms. And that redesign took over six months, “said Maruquel Gálvez representing RG Realty, the development team of this hotel on Avenida Balboa and also owner of Nikki Beach Playa Blanca, Casa Grande and Playa Blanca Hotel Bambito.

The change is due to the interest including a casino in the complex and obeying with the room requirements to do so.

The architectural and engineering firms involved in this work are TSYA and BMA. And Destiny Real Estate is responsible for sales and marketing of the project.

“Now we have a more robust, lower and wider tower. And, despite changes in the original schedule, the date of opening of the hotel is maintained for 2012 and are in pre-sales phase, “said Galvez.

RG says that the redesign and new structural plans have been approved by City Engineering.

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When you visit Portobelo in the Colon Province of Panama today, you will see the cannoned husk of a fort that was built on the Atlantic shore of the Northeastern coast of Panama. Portobelo was the area known historically as Puerto Bello, which translates as ‘beautiful port’; from the time when it provided storm shelter for Christopher Columbus in 1502… and he named it on his charts.

Puerto Bello was a bay harbor town of Spanish treasure customs houses full of gold, pearls and newly minted silver reals, protected by several forts and many cannons to guard the riches collected by the Spanish from Central and South America natives for hundreds of years.

In the world paradigm of the 17th century, the accepted means of conducting naval war was to overcome adversaries at sea with all the ships available. Captain Henry Morgan operated in the Atlantic as a sea-raider authorized by the English King’s Letter of Marque, rather than as the outlaw pirate, who he appeared to be to the Spanish.

In a daring attack the Welsh Admiral Henry Moore and his ships crews overcame Puerto Bello’s defenses in June, 1666. The sea raiders held the citizens for ransom and overwhelmed the 3,000 Spanish troops who raced through the rainforest from Panama City, to come to the aid of the guards of the treasures stored there. But instead, Morgan and his men arrived on their own docks in Port Royal, Jamaica with 250,000 ‘pieces of eight’ the Spanish had stockpiled the silver for and minted in the Americas.

The new treasure on Panama’s Caribbean Coast is near Portobelo and is called Bala Beach Resort. Maria Chiquita Beach where Bala Beach Resort is being constructed is a community of less than 1800 people, located only 3.25 miles (6 km.) up the road from the today’s little town of Portobelo. It is your opportunity to find a treasure. You can position yourself as a Bala Beach investor – in the strongest equity building position – at the beginning stages of a beachfront resort development.

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Destination: Caribbean Town of Portobelo in the Colon Province of Panama