Mandarin Oriental, the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world’s most prestigious hotels and resorts, is developing its first Central American property at Manzanillo Beach, Costa Rica.
Rancho Manzanillo will be an exclusive 538-acre gated golf and residential development including the 130-room Mandarin Oriental hotel, slated to open in 2010. The complex will feature branded Mandarin Oriental residences, beach and golf villas, and exclusive private homes, as well as an 18-hole Fred Couples Signature Championship golf course. Plans also call for 200 acres of protected tropical dry forest.
Amenities include three restaurants, three bars and a lounge, conference rooms, a 20,000 square-foot spa, a sophisticated fitness center, tennis courts, a golf pro shop and a series of multi-level outdoor swimming pools.
The development is located next to the ICT’s model tourism development project, Polo Turistico Peninsula de Papagayo, 25 minutes from the Daniel Oduber Quirós Airport in Liberia, Guanacaste.
The Rancho Manzanillo project is owned by by Corporacion Domaro, S.A. and Inversiones Costa Azul del Pacifico, S.A. It is being developed by T.F. Stone Companies of Dallas. Architecture for the resort will be provided by HKS, Inc. and landscape design by SWA Architects. Wilson & Associates is developing the hotel’s interior design, while hotel development services will be provided by Global Resort Development, Inc.
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group currently operates more than 10,000 hotel rooms in 23 countries.
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