70369 wrote:I am sorry, but that's just not possible because this property did not start out life as a Five Star Hotel. It began as a Spa and had no more than 2,500 square meters.
It was designed originally in
2003 under the name
Spa Secrets Marquis:
In
2005 it went through a big transformaation (addition) project where a massive 42,000 square meters were added. The property was then renamed to Hotel Marquis Los Cabos:
Whenever I want to know information about the construction of a building, especially a commercial building, I always start at the source with the Architect. The Architect knows every aspect of the project better than anyone. The Architect for the Marquis was Mr. Jacobo Micha, out of Mexico City:
LinkedIn - Original Marquis Hotel ArchitectThe name of his Architectural firm is:
ARCHETONIC.
When you click on the
Projects for this Firm, a timeline of all construction is shown at the top of the screen. This firm as been designing projects from 1991 through 2012.
On the
2003-2006 link found here:
ARCHETONIC Projects 2003-2006, you find the only two (2) photo portfolios for the hotel in question with completion dates of
2003 and 2005. You also find that the Architect lists the hotel with two (2) different names.
There were plenty of sources to document this. I used the following as a starting point:
Five Star Alliance, Hotels in Mexico. This site shows the original build date of the hotel as
2003.
Five Stare Alliance site showing 2003 build date:
Another very interesting note on this topic was the source that you used as the 2011 opening date:
http://www.amresorts.com/mediakit/p...pening-2011.pdf.
The problem with that link is that it does not return a page back from the domain
www.amresorts.com. When you actually visit the
http://www.amresorts.com site, you find that it is an online marketing company that has
downloadable fact sheets, images and Adobe pdf documents that Sales Agents can use to build
their own marketing materials for any given resort for which they handle online PR.So, if
www.AMRESORTS.com does not have the pdf file that was posted to show the opening date of
2011, then on what computer does that same pdf document now reside? That's one interesting question.
Here is another interesting question. When you simply drop that same link into your browser's address field, you get this html page returned showing that the document no longer exists on that server:
If that pdf was photographed at the online marketing site, before it was posted in this thread, then that link should take you straight back to the host machine containing the same pdf, as this was just posted yesterday.
So, if the pdf document cannot be found showing an opening date of
2011, then AMRESORTS, an online marketing and PR company, is probably not a better source of information than the
Architect himself and his Firm's website showing the project completion dates of 2003 and 2005.If you were there in 2010 as you said, then you would have been looking at a build that was at least 7-5 years old (depending the massive addition project date). Not a building that was under construction.
Lastly, and probably most notably - when you look at the video that Tang 6 Alpha (StealthTrader) posted, you can clearly see that that two pictures of the Marquis entrance, show the date from the camera or video device used to take the picture. That date shows
2009.
The building had been sitting on its foundation and open to the public
4-6 years before Tango 6 Alpha (StealthTrader) took the photos/video stills in 2009.[/B]