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 Travel & Outdoors | August 2006 
As Hurricane Season Churns On, Cancellation Policies Keep Rolling In
 Gay Nagle Myers - travelweekly.com
The list of suppliers offering hurricane cancellation policy continues to grow as the hurricane season begins in earnest - August and September are traditionally the peak hurricane months.
The latest additions:
• The Reef Resort on Grand Cayman offers a new guest-focused policy permitting travelers to cancel a reservation within 48 hours of arriving on the island. The cancellation policy, which allows guests to rebook without penalty or pay a fee for one night’s stay, is valid through Nov. 30. For details, view the policy on the “Reservations” page at www.thereef.com.ky.
• Marriott International’s Caribbean Travel Interruption Promise is in effect at 16 resorts in nine Caribbean and Mexican beach destinations through Nov. 30. The resorts are in Aruba, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, Mexico (Cancun and Puerto Vallarta), Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, Trinidad & Tobago. The policy applies to a hurricane as defined and validated by the U.S. National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center. The specific details of the Caribbean Travel Interruption Promise can be viewed at www.paradisebymarriott.com/news/promise.htm.
And in the non-resort category, Digicel, which provides mobile phone service throughout much of the Caribbean, now provides hurricane alerts, tracking maps, public safety information and supplies to many of its customers. Digicel’s hurricane preparedness efforts are taking place across its 20 Caribbean markets. Some examples include:
• Digicel Cayman Islands has increased its network capacity and upgraded backup systems throughout the three-island network; Digicel Barbados, meanwhile, has provided hurricane packs containing flashlights, car battery chargers and recharge cards to its customers and donated phones and call time to the Barbados Disaster Preparedness Office.
• And on Jamaica, Digicel facilitated equipping the weather, rainfall and meteorological stations at the Jamaica Metereological Services headquarters.
To contact the reporter who wrote this article, send email to Gay Nagle Myers at gmyers@travelweekly.com. |
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