53 Properties made their debut on the 10th Annual Travel+Leisure 500 Best Hotels list including celebrated One&Only Cape Town. The famed South African enclave, joins One&Only Ocean Club and One&Only Palmilla on Travel+Leisure’s 2012 T+L 500 list of World’s Best Hotels which honors One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos as the Top Hotel in Mexico. This compilation of 500 top hotels in the world is based on data collected in the most recent World’s Best Awards readers’ survey serving as a guide for where to stay in the year ahead, featuring hotels sorted by region and highlighting T+L editors’ insights on what sets each apart. www.TravelandLeisure.com/tl500


In other honors, One&Only Palmilla once again emerges as a leader in the 2012 Conde Nast Traveler Gold List Reader Survey. Also included in the hotly anticipated round-up was One&Only Ocean. Both resorts are included as part of Conde Nast Traveler’s Platinum Circle representing the hotels, resorts, and cruise lines have made the list every year for the past five years running. The Gold List is based on data collected from the annual Readers’ Choice Survey http://www.cntraveler.com/gold-list/2012

Evoking the era of the world famous Nassau Speed Weeks in the 1950s and 60s, the 2011 Bahamas Speed Week is a totally new and unique event offering luxurious experiences, exclusive hospitality and endless opportunities to have fun in the sun while the northern hemisphere is in the depths of winter.

Recently, staff from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art traveled to the One&Only Ocean Club to study a French cloister which, after partial destruction during the Reformation and the French Revolution, was salvaged and rebuilt in The Bahamas. This research is being conducted by a recipient of an Annette Kade fellowship, under the supervision of a curator of the Cloisters museum. Researchers took precise pictures and measurements of all the cloister elements (capitals, columns and bases) in order to help establish their original provenance. Initial research suggests that the cloisters come not uniquely from Montrejeau as has traditionally been said, but from several distinct monasteries in southern France.

For more information on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, please visit http://www.metmuseum.org.

JetBlue Airways, in partnership with the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board, is pleased to announce plans to further expand its successful Caribbean network with the addition of Westchester County Airport's (HPN) only international flight, offering daily nonstop service to Nassau, Bahamas (NAS). Service takes off November 15, 2011, subject to final government approval. For more information, please visit jetblue.com.

Heralded as the most effective workout system in New York City and Los Angeles, Physique 57™ is a vigorous and dynamic exercise method designed to rapidly transform your body with a proven cardiovascular program of isometric exercises and orthopedic stretches. Interval training sets incorporate muscle-defining arm exercises, intense thigh and seat sequences, waist-chiseling abdominal moves and fluid stretches to create a long and lean physique.

Discover the legendary One&Only Ocean Club while strengthening your body and relaxing your mind during one of two exclusive four-night Physique 57™ Retreats: December 4-8, 2011; January 12-16, 2012; May 3-7, 2012; September 20-24, 2012; and December 2-6, 2012.

The iconic One&Only Ocean Club in The Bahamas will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its acclaimed Dune Restaurant with an exclusive Tenth Anniversary Menu designed by Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten for guests to enjoy during the month of October 2010.

The One&Only Ocean Club offers a truly perfect setting to combine business with pleasure, providing the space, technology and professionalism needed to conduct a variety of events with the comfort and opulent surroundings of one of the world’s finest resorts.

World-class golf awaits ardent lovers of the game at the legendary One&Only Ocean Club resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas. Unveiled in December 2000, the Tom Weiskopf designed 18-hole Ocean Club Golf Course is a major attraction at the resort.

While boasting a variety of modern amenities following a $100 million renovation in 2000 by Kerzner International and a 2004 expansion to add three private villas, the fabled history of the legendary One&Only Ocean Club resort will be ever-present at this island hideaway, harkening back to a simpler era of superlative service and true elegance.

The renowned One&Only Ocean Club KidsOnly program is designed to actively amuse, educate and challenge children aged 4 - 12 at this legendary, elegant resort. The program fits with One&Only brand’s global KidsOnly offerings for younger guests, and is specifically tailored to One&Only Ocean Club and its Bahamian surroundings and culture.