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Win a Free Trip to Bask in the Puerto Rican Sunshine This Winter
With a number of extra weeks of winter forward, loads of Individuals can solely dream of escaping the chilly and fleeing to the Caribbean to take in some photo voltaic rays. However, now, you possibly can enter for an opportunity to win a complimentary getaway for 2 to Puerto Rico to take pleasure in its year-round sunshine.
In honor of this week’s Nationwide Plan for Trip Day,’s the island’s non-profit vacation spot administration group (DMO) Uncover Puerto Rico has partnered with JetBlue and Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve to host the ‘Sunshine to Spare’ sweepstakes.
The giveaway contest will award a single winner a visit for 2 to the Island of Enchantment, full with roundtrip airfare from JetBlue and a three-night keep on the Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve on Coco Seashore.
Now via February 8, contestants can head to Uncover Puerto Rico’s web site to fill out an entry type, with no buy wanted. The competition is open to authorized residents of the contiguous U.S. and Washington, D.C. ages 21 and older. The winner can be chosen via a random drawing on February 10.
“Puerto Rico is the proper vacation spot to trade-in the chilly winter months and lack of daylight for a heat getaway with loads of vibrant sunshine,” mentioned Leah Chandler, Chief Advertising and marketing Officer of Uncover Puerto Rico. “We encourage vacationers to get outdoors and discover the Island’s distinctive choices beneath the Puerto Rican solar, whether or not that’s a day on the seashore, strolling via the streets of historic Previous San Juan, or mountain climbing in El Yunque, the one rainforest within the U.S. Forest Service.”
As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is the proper fly-and-drive vacation spot for American vacationers craving a Caribbean escape. Getting there’s simple, because it’s solely a brief aircraft journey away from most main U.S. cities and requires no passport for entry. Plus, you gained’t must alternate your money for international forex or alter your cell phone plan throughout your go to.
The journey giveaway announcement coincides with the launch of the island’s latest promotion, known as ‘Sunshine to Spare’, on which Uncover Puerto Rico partnered with the Pantone Shade Institute to provide a first-of-its-kind paint coloration based mostly upon the distinctively wealthy hues of Puerto Rican daylight. The venture recruited native physicist and College of Puerto Rico professor Hector J. Jimenez, Ph.D., to calculate the signature shade by modeling photo voltaic radiation and atmospheric situations at varied occasions all through the day, and at a number of totally different spots on the island. The wealthy red-orange coloration he got here up with was dubbed ‘Puerto Rico Sunshine’ and is being included into the DMO’s promotions as symbolic of the island’s passionate, energetic and spontaneous character.
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