Grand Hyatt Trinidad Celebrates Grand Opening

The Hyatt Regency Trinidad hosted a formal Grand Opening gala on April 4, making it the first full-service hotel to open in the dual island nation of Trinidad & Tobago in 46 years.

The 428-room Hyatt is situated in the Port of Spain International Waterfront Development. While the hotel welcomed its first guests on Jan. 29, the Grand Opening marked a celebratory occasion to announce its upscale accommodations, dining, Spa Esencia and business services to the world.

Attending dignitaries included Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning as well as President George Maxwell Richards, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding, CARICOM Secretary General Dr Edwin Carrington, Prime Minister of the Bahamas Hugh Ingram, US Ambassador Roy Austin and the heads of Government and of State of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.