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MARJORIE YUE

In tune to the beat of Florida’s

Tampa Bay, the

519-room JW

Marriott Tampa

Water Street opened this year in the heart of the dynamic Water Street neighbourhood.

The harbour city’s first five-star property features two outstanding restaurants with Driftlight delivering regional farm-and-ocean-to-table cuisine and on the sixth floor, overlooking the pool or bayfront, Six serves up bistro fare with a local twist. For a grab-and-go meal, Turntable offers a menu that rotates with the seasons.

Rooms from £215 per night. jwmarriotttampawaterstreet.com

■■The Palladium Hotel Group is offering two slices of La Dolce Vita from May■■28, with the opening of Grand Palladium Garden Beach Resort and Spa and Sicilia Resort and Spa, both on Sicily’s north coast. Lying 35 miles from the capital Palermo, the two hotels, set in 10 acres, have a total of 469 rooms and suites, six bars, three a la carte restaurants as well as baby and children’s clubs.

Doubles at the Garden Beach Resort from £195 all-inclusive, and from £165 at Sicilia Resort. palladiumhotelgroup.com/en

Guests at

Sandals’ resorts in the Caribbean are being asked to bring sanitary

towels, tampons and hand sanitiser to give to disadvantaged women affected by ‘period poverty’ in Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas. packforapurpose. org, sandalsfoundation.

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