{"id":4480,"date":"2017-12-29T09:13:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T08:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riu.com\/blog\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2017-12-29T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T08:13:33","slug":"the-riu-palace-antillas-building-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riu.com\/blog\/en\/the-riu-palace-antillas-building-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Riu Palace Antillas building celebrates its 40th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

At RIU we love anniversaries, and today we want to celebrate with you the 40th anniversary of the building that houses one of our hotels in Aruba: the Riu Palace Antillas. In 1977, it opened its doors as the Aruba Concorde Hotel, and today, 40 years later, some of the original employees of that hotel still work there. To observe this anniversary, we wanted to share with you the stories of two of its employees who have been working at the same place for four decades: Freddy Molina and Leo Tromp, who received an award from the hotel director, Juan Blanco.<\/p>\n

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Molina is the Assistant Beverage Manager, and Alfonso Ariza, the Beverage Manager, tells us that the veteran employee at the Riu Palace Antillas is \u201ca wonderful person, dedicated to service and a example for everyone to follow\u201d. Freddy Molina says he is \u201cthankful and happy\u201d for the opportunity to continue working there that RIU Hotels gave him when it acquired the building.<\/p>\n

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Tromp, for his part, is a maintenance worker and also has 40 years of service in the Riu Palace Antillas building. The Assistant Maintenance Manager, Carlos M\u00e1rquez, has nothing but good things to say about him. \u201cHe’s a professional and an expert on all types of maintenance\u201d. About his long service at the hotel, M\u00e1rquez says that \u201cLeo Tromp knows this building better than we do\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Tromp himself has many memories of his early days at the Aruba Concorde Hotel and the years since. For him, there were good years and years that were not so good, but he kept working there for 40 years in the same building and loves it: \u201cEveryone says that I help them, but the best part is that at the same time they’re learning with me\u201d.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the building, the Riu Palace Antillas held an exhibit with photographs of the hotel in different years to show the evolution of the building over these four decades. And, given the importance of the event, the local media covered this very special date for us and published an audiovisual piece about it.<\/p>\n