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Hotel's Valentine's Day Package Features Locally-Sourced Cacao

Lots of resorts are featuring chocolate-themed packages for Valentine's Day but the package at the Esencia Estate in Playa del Carmen, Mexico gets you in touch with cacao right at the source.

Cacao was once referred to by the Mayans as the food of the gods. Esencia purchases the cacao seeds directly from the small town of Tizimín a few hours away from the hotel's Playa Xpu-Ha, Mexico location. It is used in Esencia's organic spa for its antioxidant properties. In the hotel's restaurant, Sal y Fuego, cacao is used in signature drinks and favorite dishes and the chef prepares the cacao in the estate's own garden kitchen using an all-natural process with no preservatives or additives.

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The Plans For Cuba's Luxury Golf Resort

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

As travel to Cuba opens up, plans for Cuba's first golf resort continue. Esencia hotels and resorts is planning a golf resort in conjunction with the Cuban government. The resort was announced last year but is attracting new attention as all eyes are looking toward Cuba as a travel destination once again. The Carbonera Golf and Country Club will include an 18-hole golf course, boutique hotel, 800 apartments, 100 villas and three restaurants from D&D the London restaurant group originally led by Sir Terence Conran. The club may cost up to around $400 million to create. It is set to open in 2011.
[via Daily Mail]

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