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ISLAND
ESCAPE
Five agents discovered there’s more than meets the eye
to Anguilla. April Hutchinson reports on the inaugural
ttgluxury Experience, run with the island’s tourist board
Beaches like
trips with a difference – including real
time off to actually enjoy the destination
talc, food good enough to grace the tables as clients would, sampling the finest
of any London restaurant, genuine service, restaurants, time in the spa, tours,
incredible villas and hotels and non-stop rooms to your yourselves, less than
sunshine – all the ingredients of a luxury 20 site inspections per trip. This was a
destination, right? fam trip – ttgluxury style.
Of course. And this is what Anguilla
Tourist Board set out to prove to five lucky Drive time
agents who took part in the inaugural Sleepy Anguilla is just 35 square miles
ttgluxury Experience trip to the island. with only 15,000 people living here – the
Carolyn Brown, Anguilla Tourist lucky ones that get to permanently see all
Board UK director, said: “Anguilla has of the island’s 33 beaches. Visitors here
always been positioned as high-end and can choose from exclusive villas, top
exclusive, but with competition in the hotels such as Cap Juluca, CuisinArt
luxury market in the Caribbean and Resort and Spa and Malliouhana, fun
worldwide becoming so tough these laidback bars and more than 100
days we felt we needed to reach out restaurants on the island. Scotland; and Joanna Bradley from
to the industry and strengthen our Our five agents to sample all this were: Hallmark Travel in East Grinstead.
position as one of the Caribbean’s most Gina de Oliveira from Wexas Travel in All bundled into a car on the first full
unassuming yet first-class destinations London; Sally Hislop from Destination day of the trip, Brown personally drove
in all aspects.” Anywhere in the Wirral; Tracey Begley us around, giving us her unique take and
The ttgluxury Experience to Anguilla from Barfield Travel in Newark; Lynette in-depth knowledge on the island she
was the first in our series of educational Wilson from Beaver Travel in Elgin, clearly loves so much.
None of the agents had been to
Anguilla before, despite being in the travel
industry for many years, and were blown
away by its friendly people, the quality of
the service and the scenery.
Begley said: “I knew Anguilla was a
small Caribbean island but that was about
it – I guess I just imagined it would be
similar to somewhere like Jamaica but on
a smaller scale.”
Having been to the Caribbean a few
times, Anguilla was one of the best islands
I have ever visited and have never
encountered such consistently excellent
service and friendliness – not to mention
the food.
For such a small island, the restaurants
are truly international quality, from
Above (clockwise from private dining in the garden of a villa at
main): Anguilla in the
CuisinArt with fresh produce grown at
moonlight; CuisinArt
the resort’s own hydroponic farm, to
Resort and Spa; Viceroy
beachfront meals at charming places
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Left: Cap Juluca
such as Straw Hat Restaurant.
agent report
autumn 09
ttgluxury.com
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