Af­ter an ab­sence of 11 years, the Trinidad Hilton will once again host an all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val fete, gen­er­al man­ag­er Olivi­er Mau­maire an­nounced yes­ter­day.

The event, Lav­ish, will be held at the ho­tel’s new­ly ren­o­vat­ed pool­side and will fea­ture acts such as Su­perblue, Na­dia Bat­son and Nailah Black­man.

Mau­maire ex­plained that the re­turn of the fete was in­spired by nu­mer­ous calls from the pub­lic for the Hilton to once again stage an event for Car­ni­val.

“I dis­cov­ered through these years, from peo­ple I meet, they talk about the Hilton and what they used to come to do here. I think it’s on­ly right to go back to that,” he said.

Mau­maire said the event was not a re­sponse to Hy­att’s pop­u­lar Lime all-in­clu­sive which is held on the Wednes­day be­fore Car­ni­val.

“We start­ed about two years ago to plan where we are go­ing back to our lega­cy and re­al­ly do some­thing el­e­gant for the com­mu­ni­ty in terms of the ho­tel fa­cil­i­ties but al­so ser­vice,” he said.

It will be held on Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 24 with gen­er­al tick­ets priced at $900 and VIP tick­ets for $1,200.

While oth­er fetes have been held at the ho­tel, this will the first or­gan­ised by the ho­tel since The Ex­treme in 2008.