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Here are a bunch of pictures we took yesterday of Orient. We did NOT go to Club O side, so no pictures of there yet. I took a bunch more pictures of various places around Orient, but a lot of them, I don't know exactly what they were.

Bikini is going to be BEAUTIFUL. My guess is that they may open just for chairs and the bar relatively soon, but it sure seems like the restaurant is going to be quite a while.
















LaPlaya hotel




LaPlaya bar





Sad picture of Kontiki remains





Esmeralda





This one looks like it's been repaired, as compared to the first one.




Plantation Restaurant, open for business





Orient Village--picture taken at 11 am, approximately





Petit Casino


Construction happening where Yellow Sub used to be



Bar open on same side of street at Petit Casino, sorry I didn't catch the name.




One of the units at Green Cay Village, where we stayed, years ago.




Bruno's O Paradis, which looks fully open for business.

Absolutely great photos! Orient Beach is coming back to life and it is so uplifting to see the steady progress being made. I still believe that this upcoming November is going to be key. If just one-third of the previous establishments are up-and-running then the high season will bring back much of revenue lost from this past year. Now, if they would only start to rebuild Pedro's and Papagayo's! Thanks for posting.

Great photos. Bikinii looks to be fantastic when finished. Can't wait till May comes around.

Looks like some great potential there....nice pics

Bikini beach has posted soft opening in 3 days . Much has changed since January!

Wow, really? OK. We were planning on going to Orient tomorrow, but may wait a couple of days to see..

The bar is Coda. Very lively. Has fresh breads in the morning. Sandwiches during the day.

OK thanks.

Thanks for all the pics and reports. Don't know where to post this as there are many of your posts ongoing (love them all). Have a great vacation and a very Happy Anniversary!!

I just heard about this place today. Live music at least on Thursday; I have that penciled in on my calendar.

The pictures from the club o are very different, I have pix from club o but I’m “tech-NO”. And cannot post them on TTOL. Lol. I do have them on my face book page. Lina valboa But we just love the water and i swam for hours,

We didn't get there the other day, as we were going to lunch and I didn't want to take the time to drive all the way out the one entrance and then go back in the other entrance. (For those that don't know, that gate by the remains of Kontiki is closed. )

We probably are going to Club Orient today.

By the way, it's pretty easy to upload pictures directly to a post, or to the photo album section.