Courtesy of: Aruba Daily
Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the pleasure of honoring Mrs. Lorraine Perri who is celebrating this year her 50th consecutive years of visiting Aruba. Mrs. Lorraine Perri is married to Mr. Ron Perri who also visited Aruba for 47 consecutive years. The celebration took place at the Costa Linda Beach Resort in the company of honorable members of parliament Mrs. Clarisca Velasquez and Mr. Chris Dammers President of the Tourism Committee of the Aruban Parliament. Together with Mr. Ernest Giel representing the Aruba Tourism Authority and friends and family members, the Perri family celebrated this special event sharing their fond memories of Aruba.
Mrs. Perri visited Aruba for the first time in 1963 and stayed at the Basiruti hotel at Palm Beach where she, as explained by her “ate the best lasagna ever”. Nowadays the Playa Linda Beach Resort is at this location. Further she stayed at the Caribbean Hotel -now the Radisson Resort, as well as other hotels. Because of their yearly visits, the Perri family decided to buy a timeshare at the Aruba Beach Club and at the Costa Linda Beach Resort.
Mrs. Perri wrote her own book of memories from her visits to Aruba, with pictures of all her so called ‘brothers and sisters’ in Aruba and all the other family members and friends she came with from the USA to visit Aruba.
Hopefully Mrs. Perri will publish this book of memoirs someday in which she shares many stories and pictures of our beautiful island over the 50 years that she has been visiting us.
Aruba Tourism Authority wishes Mrs. Lorraine and Mr. Ron Perri with their daughters Christine and Theresa and their families many more years of happiness while visiting their home away from home, our One Happy Island Aruba.
