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Football Feast Iggy’s Beach Bar at the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas hosts an annual tailgate party which includes buckets of beer and an all-you-can-eat buffet.![superbowl_10]()
Screen Play The Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas has been broadcasting the Super Bowl on an outdoor beach-side screen for more than a decade.![superbowl_12]()
Best Seat in the House “It’s literally like a big tailgate party right on the sand,” said Colleen Doumeng, the advertising manager at Bolongo Bay. “The big screen is on the beach and people pull up lounge chairs and lots of picnic tables.![superbowl_11]()
Game Day in Paradise With the temperatures hovering in the low 80’s in St. Thomas right now and no passport required, maybe this is the year to watch the game with your toes in the sand.![superbowl_7]()
Beach Ball “We came up with the idea because the timing was perfect because it’s so cold and snowy on the East Coast," said Colleen Doumeng, the advertising manager at Bolongo Bay in St. Thomas, which offers a “Kick Back in the Caribbean with Super Bowl Savings” package. "It just seemed like a good way to entice people to come on down and enjoy the nice warm weather and watch the Super Bowl on the beach.”![superbowl_6]()
Have an Away Game The Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas is currently offering the “Kick Back in the Caribbean with Super Bowl Savings” package. “It’s been almost about 10 years we have been doing this package,” Colleen Doumeng, the advertising manager at Bolongo Bay, told FoxNews.![superbowl_1]()
Group Huddle Refet Kaplan, the managing director of FoxNews.com, has been watching the Super Bowl in warmer climates for the past 16 years. Here they are in 2002 at the Atlantis Bahamas Resort.![superbowl_9]()
As the Players Do “There were a couple of tough year’s weather wise, and in particular, there was one in Maine where it was absolutely frigid and nasty,” said Refet Kaplan, managing director of FoxNews.com. “And we just got to talking and some of us said, ‘Well they do the Super Bowl itself in a warm place every year and they make a big weekend out of it, why don’t we do the same?’”![superbowl_4]()
Warming up with the Locals The female contingent of one of Kaplan's Bahamas Bowl party pose in a local bar the group rented for the party.![superbowl_3]()
Betting Pool The Kaplan Bahama Bowl crew kicks back poolside in Cancun in 2002, the New England Patriots earned their first Super Bowl win against the St. Louis Rams.![superbowl_2]()
Shuffle Plays The Beach Bowl team scores their own touchdowns on the shuffleboard court at the Atlantis Bahamas Resort.Super Bowl in the sand
The Super Bowl is a great excuse to get out of the winter chill and head somewhere warm.
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