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Jetset Holidays offers a week in the Florida Keys from £1,599, including British Airways flights and car hire. Based on four sharing, the price covers four nights at Amara Cay Resort and three nights in a two- bedroom cottage at Sunset Key Guest Cottages. jetsetholidays.
co.uk
USAirtours has seven nights at Amara Cay Resort from £1,449 between January 5 and March 13, 2016, including Virgin Atlantic flights from London or Manchester. The operator also offers seven nights in a two- bedroom cottage at Sunset Key Guest Cottages
from £1,735, based on two adults/two children sharing.
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Funway Holidays offers seven nights at Hawks Cay from £1,099,
for departures on November 11. The price includes car hire and Delta flights from London to Key West.
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The island hosts the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival, and at the Holiday Inn Key Largo Resort & Marina, visitors can sail the African Queen, the boat he skippered in the film.
w STAY: LOW-KEY LUXURY The Keys do low-key and luxury in equal measure. At Sunset Key Guest Cottages, one to four-bedroom cottages, each with private patio and garden or ocean views, are scattered across this peaceful island across the water from Key West. There’s a pool, spa and private beach, while upscale bar and restaurant Latitude is renowned for its Caribbean or ‘Floribbean’ cuisine. A 24-hour boat service ferries residents and dinner guests to and from town. For olde-worlde luxury, Waldorf
Astoria’s Casa Marina is hard to top with its private beach, pools, spa and golf course. Newcomers include The Gates Hotel Key West, where minimalist rooms feature local photography and exposed beams, and a food truck and rum bar are among the drinking/dining options. The luxury 96-room Marker Waterfront Resort, the first newly built hotel in Key West’s old town for 20 years, combines conch architecture with contemporary art in a hectare of landscaped grounds. Under the Islamorada Resort
Company umbrella is Islamorada’s newest resort, Amara Cay, a fusion of
trendy Miami South Beach and laid- back Keys with beautifully designed and spacious rooms and suites. Its Italian restaurant Oltremare – one of few upscale Italian spots in the Keys – offers a menu big on fresh seafood and homemade pasta. Other facilities include water sports, outdoor pool, private beach with hammocks and convivial Sparrows Rum Bar. Other newcomers include Islander
Resort, the latest in the Guy Harvey Outpost portfolio. A marine wildlife artist, conservationist and diver, Harvey’s properties are run by staff passionate about the water. There are 114 rooms in 1950s-style villas and 25 cottages in 10 hectares of landscaped grounds. Facilities include Guy’s
Beachside Bar & Grill, water sports and on-site massages. Big changes are afoot in Key Largo with Marriott’s waterfront Playa Largo Resort & Spa, scheduled to open in December, complete with marina and spa. The island is also home to the world’s first and the US’s only underwater hotel, Jules’ Undersea Lodge. Guests must be certified divers as rooms can be accessed only by diving – luggage and meals are brought down in waterproof cases – but it still has free Wi-Fi. For those who don’t want to stay overnight, three-hour experiences are available, including a pizza lunch and diving the lagoon.
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