Main picture, opposite: sunset dinner in St. Vincent. Left: Children love mixing with visitors. Below: Sugar Ridge in Antigua, Saint Lucia’s Hotel Chocolat and the Spice Basket Theatre, Grenada
WHAT’S NEW – IN BRIEF From lounges to zip wires and walking trails to restaurants – not to mention a host more new hotels – there’s always lots happening around the Caribbean. Here are some more exciting new developments.
• Bahamas: Sir Stirling Moss will be in Nassau to take part in the Bahamas Speed Week Revival November 30 – December 4.
• Barbados: Already open this year are the Marriot Court Yard Hotel with 118 rooms, the 351-one/two-bedroom suite Lighthouse Resort and the four-star Ocean Two condo-hotel.
• Bonaire: Starting November 2011, KLM flies daily to Bonaire;
the island has again
been voted #1 overall Top Diving destination in Scuba Diving magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2010.
sailing yacht Atmosphere at their disposal. Following the new ownership of Petit St Vincent, a small private island located in the Grenadines, the upgrade programme is now under way and will be complete in November 2011. A key part of the new-look resort will be a new open-air spa. Also in the Grenadines, the newly built Bequia Beach Hotel is situated in what many consider to be the premiere location on Bequia, Friendship Beach. Inspired by Oliver Messel’s stylish Mustique villas and surrounded by beautiful tropical gardens, this boutique hotel has an infinity pool, first-class restaurant and its own secluded sandy beach area. Cubanacan Hotels will open two new E
Hotels (Excellence and Boutique Hotel) in Cuba in November 2011, The Barcelona Hotel in Remedios and the Ronda Hotel in Trinidad.
NEW ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES Spice Basket and Cricket Museum (www.
spicebasketgrenada.com) is Grenada’s newest attraction. Its restaurant and bar offer visitors fine Grenadian cuisine and local drinks, all to the soundtrack of live steel pan melodies. The museum explores the island’s rich and diverse history, inclusing the game that still unites so many of the Caribbean islands today - cricket. The Grenada Chocolate Company’s 82% cocoa bar has been awarded a Silver in the ‘Bean to Bar Best Dark Bar’ by the London-
• Cayman Islands: The sinking of the Kittiwake is the newest happening in Cayman, also ranked by Tripadvisor as the only Caribbean country in the world’s top 25 destinations!
• Dominica is to open the 115-mile Waitukubuli National Trail , the first and only long-distance walking trail in the Caribbean.
• Montserrat is to get a new National Museum, the third building to be erected in Little Bay, the new capital of the island.
• Turks & Caicos: Newly opened is the Havana Club at the Windsong Resort, the TCI’s first comedy club. It also hosts Salsa nights on Wednesdays and bingo on Tuesdays and also live band nights from time to time.
The Cayman Islands - welcome to paradise on earth.
Beautiful unspoilt and uncrowded beaches, private luxury villas, fantastic haute cuisine, indulgent spas and the best diving in the world. The friendly welcome and feeling of freedom one experiences in the Cayman Islands truly makes it the holiday of a lifetime. For more information contact the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism on 020 7491 7771.
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