Hotel Melia
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Hotel Meliá en Ponce. Puerto Rico, located across from Plaza Degetau
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Colonial |
| Location | Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Address | 75 Cristina Street |
| Coordinates | 18°0′42.4″N 66°36′47.2″W / 18.011778°N 66.613111°WCoordinates: 18°0′42.4″N 66°36′47.2″W / 18.011778°N 66.613111°W |
| Opening | 1895(Founder: Bartolo Meliá) |
| Owner |
Current: (DBA Hotel Meliá Inc.) |
| Management | Nicolas Albors Meliá, GM Raul Albors, Exec. Mgr. |
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| Floor count | 4 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti Francisco Porrata Doria Enrique Soler Cloqull |
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| Number of rooms | 73 |
| Number of restaurants | 1 (Panorama) |
| Number of bars | 1 |
| Parking | On site |
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| Hotel Meliá | |
Current:
Prime Holdings Group
Historical:
The Meliá family
Hotel Meliá is a historic colonial style family owned and operated hotel located in the Ponce Historic Zone in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Puerto Rico. Hotel Meliá, which was founded over 60 years before the much larger Meliá Hotels International chain opened its first lodging facility, bears no relation to the multi-hotel chain headquartered in Spain.
The colonial facade of Hotel Meliá is located across from Parque de Bombas in Plaza Las Delicias, Ponce's most iconic square in downtown Ponce. The 4-story structure has its main entrance on Cristina street but guest rooms face either Cristina street or Plaza Degetau. Rooms facing Plaza Degetau have full views of Parque de Bombas and the Ponce Cathedral. The hotel has a roof-top terrace breakfast area and a swimming pool. The first floor of the hotel on the side facing Plaza Degetau is occupied by King's Ice Cream.
The hotel lobby, with its polished wood paneling, plush seating and marble floors is traditional of the hotel's long-recognized throwback elegance. The hotel has been called "reminiscent of Old World Spain'." Hotel Meliá Ponce's design was inspired by a small hotel in Barcelona, Spain. The tile on the second floor is similar to what is oftentimes seen in an Old World Spanish hotel. "The feeling of Europe is evident also in the layout of the property as one level up from the lobby there is an open air area...the architecture is a "unique mix of cultures with the Spanish influence reinvented”.
In 1890, Bartolo Meliá moved from Majorca, Spain to Ponce to take an accounting job. Once he arrived to Puerto Rico, Meliá discovered that the owners of the business he was to take a job at were in jail. Not discouraged, he settled in Ponce and opened a small grocery store across Plaza Las Delicias. Meliá imported many goods from Europe which established his reputation as a popular grocer in the city. Thanks to his success as a grocer, he expanded his store into a restaurant. Seeing the need for an overnight stay of drivers making their trips from San Juan to Ponce and the convenient location of his grocery-restaurant, he then expanded into a small hotel.
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