Dunes Hotel & Beach Resort welcomes you to its web portal. Visit and enjoy the most spectacular hotel on the enchanting Margarita Island in the Caribbean. Know in detail all the advantages of our "All Inclusive" system to make our hotel the perfect place for your vacations or corporate activity.
Dunes Hotel & Beach Resort is located in the north end of the island, in the area of the best beaches. Our beach Puerto Cruz is 2.5 kilometers long and is oceanic. To the left side of the hotel is Playa Zaragoza, characterized for being small and quiet. We are located 25 minutes from Santiago Mariño Airport and 30 minutes from Porlamar, where the Island Shopping Center is located.
Facilities
ROOMS: We have 329 rooms divided into 33 “houses” with a total of 203 rooms, and 3 “buildings” with 126 rooms. At the “houses” there are 115 standard rooms with queen size bed, bathroom, closet; 72 junior suites with a bedroom with a queen size bed, bathroom and closet, and a livingroom area/kitchenette with a double sofabed and bathroom, and 16 senior suites with a bedroom with a queen size bed, bathroom and closet, an extra bedroom with two individual beds and a closet, and a livingroom area/kitchenette with a double sofabed and bathroom. At the “buildings”, the 126 rooms are separated into interconnecting standard rooms, which can have either a king size bed, two individual beds or a kitchenette with a livingroom/bedroom area. Each one has a bathroom and a closet. All have garden view, air conditioning, cable TV, hair dryer, radio alarm, coffee making machine and mini fridge.
Standard rooms with balcony: 5% extra charge on rate per person per night. Subject to availability.
RESTAURANTS: Main restaurant LA CACHAMA. Buffet Service. Breakfast 7:00 am. -11:30 am / Luch 12:30 pm. – 2:30 pm / Dinner 6:30 pm.- 10:00 pm. Beach Restaurant EL CANEY. Lunch. Buffet and a la carte service. 12:00 m. – 4:45 pm. CUBOS ” Music Bar”: Jazz, Saxo, Piano, Blues. Open from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Open bar with drinks included in package as per “All Inclusive”. Out of package drinks and “munchies” at a nominal charge.
Specialty Restaurant LUCIANO. Only dinners.Casual wear (no shorts). Seatings: 6:30 pm / 7:30 pm / 8:30 pm. One visit included every seven (07) nights permanence in the hotel ( NON SMOKING) Room Service: 24 hour service
BARS: El Caney Beach Bar: at beach 11:00 am. – 4:45 pm. El Tirano Bar: located at main pool 11:00 am. – 6:00 pm.
Services
ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE : Accommodation in standard room. Safe in the room.All buffet style meals. Selection of national alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Late afternoon and midnight snack. Daily recreational activities on the beach and pool. Game room. Cinema functions for children and adults. Daily night shows. Nursing service. Use of gym, sauna and steam for ladies and gentlemen. Children's club. Karaoke (Monday-Wednesday and Friday). Discotheque.
SERVICES NOT INCLUDED: Transfer to Porlamar Mon. - Sat. Previous Reservation: IDA: 9:00 am. - RETURN: 2:00 pm. / 11:00 am. - 4:00 p.m. Medical service. Night use of tennis courts. Internet: Mon - Fri 8:00 am. - 11:00 p.m. / Sat -Day 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Bicycle rental. Massage service.
SPECIAL EVENTS: Congresses. Conventions. Product launches. Wedding Ceremony. Sports events.
Attractions
TYPICAL INFORMATION – NUEVA ESPARTA
Children’s Games: Among the most common “sepeserepe”, “la pava loca”, “el tamboreé”, “la ronda”, “la cinta verde”, “la candelita”, “la balasentá”, “el fardo”, “el cucambé”, “el talión”, “el tibiribirón”, “el zapizapato”, “el pirinduñe”, “la cañabereca”, “el negrito y el mar como su bocao”, “el trique y el tribilín”.
Adult Games: Still maintained “dominó”, “la ronda”, “el truco”, “carga la burra”, “la pelea de gallos”.
Legends: Among others, “the man that ground with the devil”, “the dead hunter”, “the iguana that spoke to a Gabino”, the zambo geminiano bird”, “the balck mans hair bush”; “the saintly paraulata”; “the hills”, “the cloud formation”, “the way to Santiago”, “why the snakes slither and the pigeons fly low”.
Music: Famous are the “gaitas”, “polos”, “malagueñas”, “jotas”, “sabana blancas”, “zumba que zumba”, “galerones”, “puntillantos”, “ensaladillas”, “aguinaldos”, “cantos de pilón”, “seguidilla”, “corríos”, “estribillos”.
Musical Instruments: There are “cuatros”, “maracas”, guitars, drums, “cumbias”, “furrucos” or “foco focos”, “charrascos”, “bandolas”, “bandolines”, “pitos”, and “guaruras”, most of local manufacture.
Dances: Well known are the “mud dance”, “the turkey”, the “fun dance” and the “chimichimitos”.
Fun: Among the dancing pantomimes, most famous are the “King Fish (carite)”, “la burriquita”, “la vaca”, “el róbalo”, “la chuiquía”, “la conocía”, “el vapor”, “la osa”, “el venado”, “la iguana”, “la balandra”, “el mono” and “el sebucán”.
Drinks: “Chinguirito”, “consigue rum” and the “guarapita”.
Dress: Femenine exterior – “bata” or “batola” (a long robe), “ropón” or “camisón” (long short as pijamas), “saco” and “saya” (flowing skirts as underwear). Femenina underwear – “cota” or “cotilla”
(short short as brassiere), “pantaleta de pierna” (long legged panties), “camisola” or “túnico” (under robe), “naguín” or “media nagua” (short tight pants), “nagua (enagua)” or “refajo” (tights). Masculine exterior – a change of clothes made of fiber material for work at sea or land, and pants with shirt for rides, walks, parties, etc. Masculine underwear – undershorts and sleeveless shirt.
Shoes: “cotizas”, “chinelas”, “babuchas”, “botines”, “alpargatas”, “tabacaleras”, “orejetas” and “cholas” (slippers).
Hats: The “cogollo” hat – white and painted, of wide or short rim, of common top or mule top. For the ladies, “pavas” or “chambelonas”.
Arts and crafts: Pots and crockery at “El Cercado”, Eláter, tobbaco, “cogollo” hats, “piñonate” (a local candy made of pineapple and sweet potatoe), “alpargatería”, baskets, “parape” and “carey” (turtle back crafts), “chinchorros” (local hammocks) and “escapularios” (patron saint necklaces), “petates”, “panadería” (bakery goods) and candy. From coast fishermen: “chinchorro” (loosely woven hammocks), “trenes” and “atarrayas” (types of fishing nets” and hooks. On the way between Porlamar and Juan Griego we will find ourselves on the “weavers track”, as half way through, at the town of Santa Ana, from time back in history has been outstanding in fine confection of “chinchorros” which with a wide variety of fibers offer the best way to take a nap. Also, there is a great variety of traditional hammocks, woven by fine and expert ancestral hands, each town weaving their own tradition.
Further ahead, nearly arriving at Juan Griego, we will find the town of “La Vecindad”, where artisans weave with their laborious hands baskets, hats, etc. representing local tradition across our borders. Vegetable fibers are also a leading figures in Margarita’s handicrafts. Baskets can be found in the Guacuco area, as well as hats and “mapires” (long woven bags), made by expert hands of weavers of San Juan Bautista and Pedrogonzález.
Very close to Santa Ana, we will find the small town of El Cercado, the center of Margarita’s pottery making since many years, using three types of earth, brought from “La Cruz” hill, to make decorative and useful pieces.
Myths: Local beliefs – the devil, “la chinigua”, “la llorona”, “la colmillona”, “los pájaros del diablo”, “los duendes”, “los chimichimitos”, “los sinamos” or “chinamitos”, “el pez Nicolás”, “la sirena”, “el chivato del cielo”, “la mula manía”, “la puerca parida”, “la gallina sacada”, “los entierros condenados”, “el maldeojo”, “el santiguao”, and “el tirano Aguirre”.
Traditions: It was customary to celebrate Easter Week, by not eating meat, putting in water the egg of a black hen to see the future; cutting one’s hair on the day of John the Baptist; dressing up in costumes of ghosts on the day of the dead; dancing and singing “parrandas” during Christmas time, etc.