Earth Day 2009
April 19th, 2009
Last hatchling from a Bucuti nest
For those of you who have been our guests in the past, you have seen how strong our company culture is with regard to the importance of sustainable practices. Within our company and through stewardship, we do our utmost to promote awareness of our environment and how to protect it. Therefore as you can imagine, Earth Day is a big day for us. Below are our April 22, 2009 Earth Day activities. We hope you will participate if you will be our guest this week!
8.30am: Beach Clean up
Bucuti’s owner, Ewald Biemans is the founder of the Aruba “Sponsor A Mile” program. Once a month our Bucuti associates gather in the morning and beginning at our resort on the beach, they head north, armed with garbage bags and clean up our mile of road and beach area. When we first started the sponsor a mile, our guests consistently expressed interest to join and ultimately we decided to inform them when it was happening, with an open invitation to participate. Some days our guests out-number our associates and we are so proud to have such socially conscience guests! For Earthday this year, let our concierge team know if you wish to join our beach clean up before 5pm April 21st. They will equip you with a free Bucuti Beach Resort T-shirt. concierge@bucuti.com
9am: Nature Sensitive Hike
Rangers from the Arikok National Park will take Bucuti guests on a special hiking tour in our beautiful park. Guests will see a variety of indiginous life…cacti, lizards, birds, wild donkeys and wild goats and more… The friendly and professional rangers will explain all about our native flora and fauna as well as interesting information on our country’s history.
The tour is from 9am till 12 pm. US $ 25 per person. Transportation and refreshments are included. Space is limited. Please sign up with the concierge; concierge@bucuti.com to reserve a spot.
11:30am: Hotel Tour by Bucuti’s Green Team Members
Over the past decade, Bucuti has won a multitude of environmental awards and accolades for our extensive efforts to protect the environment. We invite you to go with our Green Team Members behind the scenes, into the ‘back of the house’ as we call it, and learn about Bucuti’s extensive infrastructure designed to keep you, our associates and the environment safe. The Tour starts at 11.30am in our main Bucuti lobby. Please sign up by April 21st at our concierge desk.
1pm: Turtle Lecture by Yvonne van der Putten-Brinkman
Mrs. Yvonne van der Putten-Brinkman from the Turtugaruba foundation was invited by the management and associates of Bucuti for our annual update and education about our local sea turtles. These gentle giant turtles nest on Bucuti’s and other Aruban beaches at this time of the year and we conduct a refresher course for our associates to protect and care for the Turtles properly when they appear on our beach to further future generations. Please join us! We welcome you on this day from 1pm – 2pm in the Tara Lounge.
3pm: Recycled Crafts Contest at the Pirates’ Nest.
Join us in the Pirates’ Nest Restaurant for our recycled crafts exhibition and contest with our associates. Associates will show off their art pieces created from recycled materials. The recycled crafts contest will start at 3pm and we need your help to be a judge! You can participation by voting for your favorite recycled craft. Winning selections will be entered in the 8th Annual Island-wide Recycling competition at the Library in Oranjestad held on Monday the 4th of May.
3pm: Meet owner Ewald Biemans at the Pirates’ Nest during our Recycle Contest
Ewald Biemans is known as the island’s foremost tourism industry activist for Environmental protection over the past 3 decades. Meet him at the Pirates’ Nest after the recycling contest to ask questions about how you can protect the environment at home by reducing, reusing and recycling.
6pm - 10.30pm: The Pirates’ Nest restaurant will offer a special menu featuring Aruban Cuisine
Join the Pirates’ Nest tonight for an authentic Aruban cultural experience. The Chef has created a special Aruban traditional menu for you to taste the flavors of Aruba. Reservations are required, please see our concierge team for your reservation.
The price of the Aruban menu is $34.95 p.p. inclusive of service charge and government taxes.
8pm: Movie on the beach, underthe stars: The Inconvenient Truth
The Inconvenient Truthis Al Gore’s movie which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. It is a controversial movie, whether you agree or not, we hope to inspire discussion and concern for the subject.
Write and tell us what you think of our Earth Day program. We appreciate your feedback!
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July 28th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Susan: My wife and I just returned from spending a wonderful week at the Bucuti and I wanted to compliment you not only on the great staff and accomodations at the Bucuti but the amazing commitment you and the team demonstrate in the protection of the environment. We participated in the beach clean-up while we were there and not only enjoyed the fact that guests participated, but your staff did as well. I also wanted to note that one evening there were turtle eggs hatching and in addition to a group of concerned naturists helping shepherd the baby turtles back into the ocean, one of your bar tenders did the same. He illuminated the beach with his cell phone so he could see and was picking up the babies who were disoriented and walking them back to the ocean. I was very impressed with that commitment and concern. A similar experience in Mexico did not result in the same level of concern among that resort’s staff I can assure you. Please pass along my greatest compliments to everyone at the Bucuti from Deborah to the Concierge staff (Bettina, Mary Ann, Natasja) the bartending staff, Jose, your new Restaurant Director, the cleaning staff – everyone. You have truly set the bar high. We are very fortunate that Tom Wordinger insisted that we come to the Bucuti. It was probably the best and most fulfilling experiences we have had to-date in our travels. By the way, we are sorry we missed the Inconvenient Truth – one of our favorites. Dan and Deb Fox-Gliessman