The all-inclusive Sandos Hotels & Resorts was recently honored by Apple Vacations with the company's Golden Apple award for their standard of quality, service and value at Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa and the connecting Sandos Riviera Beach Resort & Spa in the Riviera Maya, Mexico. The Golden Apple awards were presented at a ceremony held on Sept. 15, 2009 at Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago.

Apple Vacations provides clients with a Vacation Satisfaction Questionnaire upon their return home and uses the responses to award a Golden Apple to those hotels that receive the highest ratings and positive feedback from Apple Vacations clients.

"The Golden Apple award is the highest award presented by Apple Vacations and a true honor and confirmation that our resorts stand out above amongst the rest," said Jacques De Paep, director of Sales and Marketing, Sandos Hotels & Resorts.

Sandos Hotels & Resorts, headquartered in Spain, has two resort complexes on the Riviera Maya, Mexico - Caracol complex, which consists of Sandos Caracol Eco-Resort & Spa and the Select Club Beach section, and the Playacar complex containing Sandos Playacar Beach Resort & Spa and the Playacar Riviera Hotel section - as well as one resort in the Canary Islands, the Sandos Papagayo Arena Beach Resort & Spa. Future openings are planned in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.