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From an idyllic island escape to a holistic spa experience, our Travel Gurus can find a luxury Caribbean holiday for you.
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Lovingly located amidst the lagoons and dunes of the Riviera Maya, the award-winning romantic spa resort of Banyan Tree Mayakoba will leave you breathless and very much in love.
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£2,499 per person
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Tropical locations don’t get any better than St. Lucia’s Cap Estate and as this former sugar plantation’s rolling hills are blessed with some of the most exquisite views in the Caribbean, you can guarantee that your stay will be as sweet as it will be relaxing.
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The lush countryside, the warm disposition of the people – these might be what distinguish Antigua from other Caribbean islands, but for Gordon Campbell Gray, the decision to invest in Antigua was swayed by the special beauty of Carlisle Bay. This natural harbour in the most remote corner of the island, defined by a fine crescent of sand, is straight out of an ideal Caribbean press release. Its emerald green waters are surrounded by forested mountains and plenty of swaying palms, Carlisle Bay is the only hotel in this idyllic location and, having negotiated title to the entire beach, he intends to keep it that way. The swimming pool tiles were brought in from Bali and a black-painted orchid pool with its flaming torches defines the entrance.
The all-suite hotel opened in late 2003 and the guest reaps the benefit of Gordon Campbell Gray's almost manic attention to detail in a wild and ruggedly natural setting.
From the lights that illuminate the garden at night, to the bleached grey stain of the outdoor timber, to the abundance of orchids, to the custom-made furniture and interiors designed by Mary Fox Linton – no detail large or small has escaped Gordon's magnificent obsession.
A natural harbour in the most remote corner of the island, defined by a fine crescent of sand, is straight out of an ideal Caribbean press release.
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£2,199 pp
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A beautiful setting on, funnily enough, a cove with crystal clear waters.
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Understated elegance and Barbadian heritage set in eleven acres of tropical gardens on a half mile of stunning beach.
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£1,649pp in low season (May-Oct)
£2,399pp in high season (Nov-April)
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Set in the jungle on the secluded and unspoilt northeast coast, Geejam is a stone’s throw from the island’s most beautiful and charming beaches, and only a short journey from the island’s most renowned waterfalls. Geejam is an exclusive collection of deluxe cabins and villas with the added street cred of also being a fully fledged recording studio.
Musicians need privacy when they are recording an album, but they also need comfort and inspiration. With room names like Ska, Rocksteady, Drum&Bass this retreat openly celebrates its musical pedigree and the design only amplifies it, with hidden speakers and the fusion of sleek design.
Organic elegance best describes the style of this six acre estate. A duo of three hundred year old fig trees also serve as the foundation of the Bushbar. It’s all a well balanced mix of upscale interiors – Hansgrohe taps, Starck bathtubs –natural environment – the property has its own waterfall -and the “we know how to chill” shabby chic that has come to typify the Island Outpost group.
Music is as much a part of Jamaica as its mountains, beaches and jungle. Combine all these attributes, condense them, and you end up with Geejam
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£2,199 pp
Complimentary transfers for stays of 4 nights or more
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For those who like their lives shaken but not stirred.
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£2,075 pp in low season
£2,535 pp in high season
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Named after Jake – her pet parrot – this is the story of one woman’s love for her beach. Treasure Beach was the place Sally Densham spent all her childhood holidays: swimming, fishing and doing nothing else much of significance played such a role in her life that she purchased the property in 1991 and personally set out to build an eclectic collection of thirty odd cottages influenced by India, Morocco and the Adobe architecture of the American South West.
A bohemian bolthole on a different side of the island.
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£1,139 pp
Truly Jamaican experience
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Tucked away in 100 acres of lush rainforest Jalousie Plantation allows guests to relax within one of the world's most beautiful natural locations.
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£1,499pp in low season (May-Oct)
£1,689pp in high season (Nov-April)
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Romantic, elegant, refined, Jamaica Inn is a timeless and intimate complex directly on Jamaica’s finest private beach.
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£1,459 per person
Stay 7 pay 6 for selected 2012 dates
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It’s not a surprise to discover that Laluna is the vision of an intrepid Italian; they seem to have a knack for places like this. Bernardo Bertucci arrived here just over 10 years ago, and fell in love with the island, and the fact that it was not as commercial as other Caribbean islands.
This hotel is far more colourful and ethnic than any of the other hotels. The owner decided to focus on a décor and design much more in tune with the surrounding jungle. Laluna is for people who embrace the chance to escape to a bungalow disguised by the verdant green of a tropical island, just above a beach that is hidden away for all but the guests of the property.
This is a place where you forget time, routine and protocol, and focus instead on the natural beauty of these volcanic Caribbean islands.
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£1,439 pp in low season
£2,025 pp in high season
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Montpelier Plantation & Beach is a new type of Caribbean destination – a sophisticated, rather sizeable sanctuary of more than sixty acres with just nineteen rooms, that is entirely devoted to a modern sense of laid back hedonism.
Dominated by Nevis Peak, the ravines and steep slopes of this volcanic island continue to impress. Montpelier Plantation & Beach is situated high in the hills of this Caribbean gem, but in keeping with its dedication to the luxury of choice it also has a private beach.
As for the rooms, a chic, pared down approach is applied to colonial ‘bones’. Bathrooms are big and cutting edge and the rooms, thanks to their heritage, have high ceilings, hard wood floors and big windows open to the Trade Winds. Unconventionally, you will not find a TV in the rooms or an iPod docking station, or any usually ubiquitous entertainment technology. The idea is to slow down... in style.
A break from both the rat race and from tradition; this is not your usual Caribbean retreat. Clean contemporary style mixes it with the historical pedigree of a former sugar plantation.
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£1,785 pp in low season
£2,089 pp in high season
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... a collection of red-roofed villas tucked into the dense greenery of Mount Cinnamon. They each have a brilliant view of the bay that defines Grenada and of the starting point of Great Anse beach.
These are villas in the true domestic context of the word, they are houses with proper living rooms, kitchens, terraces, and completely separate bedrooms; houses that are perfect for people with children.
The rest of the hotel is just down the hill from the villas. It’s not huge, and that is its charm. It is all on a scale that feels cosy and comfortable. One thing is certain; the hotel has a great view, probably the best on the island, a great location, a two minute stroll from the beach, and a very comfortable scale.
Peter de Savary’s Mount Cinnamon is a new and fun boutique resort set on the beautiful Grand Anse Beach.
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£1,399 pp
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British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
Necker, Sir Richard Branson’s private island paradise, is situated in the British Virgin Islands, a stunning and unspoilt area of the Caribbean. At 74 acres, Necker sits in turquoise waters surrounded by coral reefs and fringed with beautiful white sandy beaches. The island can be hired exclusively or you can enjoy the Necker experience during selected Celebration Weeks when individual rooms can be booked by singles or couples to enjoy our fabulous island paradise ‘house party’ style. Guests are encouraged to treat Necker like their own home, and are welcome to help themselves to anything they want, any time.
Although Necker Island’s Great House was destroyed by fire in 2011, the vast majority of the island and its facilities were unaffected. There will be some renovations taking in place in early 2012 with some exciting enhancements for the re-opening in April. The Great House itself will take a while to restore to its former glory but in the meantime guests will be accommodated within the six refurbished Bali Houses, Temple House (Sir Richard’s Branson’s house) and also on board Necker Belle, Sir Richard’s luxury catamaran! Therefore there is plenty of exciting spaces to sleep up to 28 guests for all kinds of celebrations with friends and family.
Necker can become your own private hideaway; away from the stresses and strains of daily life.
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£10,229 pp
Celebration weeks throughout the 2011
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In truth, it looks even smarter in real life: an unusually successful blend of shiny new world bling and colonial style class. It doesn’t come as a surprise to learn that it was once the private estate of Huntington Hartford II, heir to the A&P Supermarket fortune. It still has the feel – that “je ne sais quoi” – of old money. This beautiful house was built on the best location in the Bahamas, and no matter how much the estate has changed over the years, the foundation of discerning taste is still there.
What really stands out about One&Only Ocean Club is its ability to combine the casual beach chic that you would expect from the Bahamas with the polished formality of a summer house built on a Versailles scale.
Some people will recognise the legendary One&Only Ocean Club from the James Bond film Casino Royale. If ever there was a place perfectly suited to driving in with an Aston Martin, this is it.
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2,085 pp in low season
2,475 pp in high season
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Infused with the charm of Mexico, but without the over kill of clichés, the One&Only Palmilla is how Mexico should be. The Pacific is seen from every direction with the added bonus that the Palmilla’s beach is one of the few beaches from which you can swim in the area.
Perched on the tip of the Baja Peninsula, framed by mountainous desert, Palmilla is where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez – a part of Mexico’s coast, where grey whales still breach water.
Luxury disguised by charming Mexican inspired beauty, on the perfect pacific beach.
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£2,889 pp in low season
£4,015 pp in high season
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You’ll be transported to a time when Latin American cool provided the essential ingredient to every romantic flirtation.
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£969 per person
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The frenetic salsa and sightseeing of fabulous Havana leaves many of us wanting a little Cuban beach life...
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Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean
First and foremost it’s all about the beach. Parrot Cay’s beach is a long curving strip of blindingly white powdery sand - imagine a beach made of talcum powder and you’ll start to get the idea. Without exaggeration, it is probably one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean.
As a guest you don’t just have the beach to yourself, you have the island to yourself. The relaxed ambience has a lot to do with the fact that here there are no distractions. Here you can focus on the worthwhile simple things, such as swimming in the turquoise waters, playing on the islands two tennis courts, checking into the spa for a bit of ‘me’ time, or dining alfresco by the swimming pool by candlelight at night.
Parrot Cay is the essence of what it means to get away from it all.
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£2,499 pp in low season
£2,969 pp in high season
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Round Hill is where Jacqueline and JFK spent their honeymoon, where Rodgers and Hammerstein played chess, where Hitchcock got sunburned and where Noel Coward, if egged on enough, would sing for the guests.
After 50 years, Round Hill has a million stories to tell, but most impressive is how little it has changed. The place today offers the same blend of qualities that has always pulled the famous names and faces; namely a well-preserved slice of old Jamaica.
Today you still enjoy its stylish architecture and a predictably colonial pace of life, but with the added pull of an oceanfront spa and refurbished hotel rooms designed for beach living by Ralph Lauren, (perhaps whilst visiting his own villa at Round Hill).
A former pineapple plantation on the outskirts of Montego Bay, what is it about Round Hill that makes it such a magnet?
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£1,599 pp in high season
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First opened in 1961, it was a success from the very start and in 1998 the property was rebuilt from scratch in order to provide for the modern standards of luxury demanded such as a world-class spa and championship golf. In rebuilding this famous hotel, the porches, the staircases, the walls, the symmetry, the columns -every characteristic Caribbean Georgian detail – were carefully adhered to. The end result is a hotel that looks like it hasn’t been touched on the outside but with a thoroughly modern hotel on the inside. The hotel is distinguished inside and out by its render of crushed coral limestone. It is unashamedly luxurious.
In the sleepy, laid-back Caribbean, Sandy Lane is almost a miracle. The place is a well-oiled machine that seems to operate without hiccup or glitch.
Focus on the many ways you can be spoilt. Because for the true hedonist, Sandy Lane is very hip indeed.
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from £3,355 pp high season
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The Saratoga “certainly has, without a doubt, the best view”. From the rooftop restaurant and pool you have a 200 and something degree view of the city, with the impressive Capitolio and Teatro Nacional just across the street.
At its zenith in the Thirties an all-girl swing band called Anacaona made the hotel one of Havana’s hotspots: today, Saratoga brings a certain style from that era to its contemporary interior. The restaurant is red and Moroccan, the atrium bar looks like it could still host the band. It’s a surprisingly stylish hotel, none of which is obvious from the exterior. Apart from the pool on the roof, which is a very sophisticated and welcome touch, they also must have one of the best located restaurants in the city with Old Havana stretching out below.
Contemporary interiors with a certain style from the Thirties and a superb location in Old Havana.
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£1,025 pp in low season
£1,159 pp in high season
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Of all the hotels along Grand Anse Beach, Spice Island definitely has the best location. Tucked just behind the dunes, the whole resort is literally a stone’s throw from the beach.
Spice Island’s beach bungalows are the most sought - after rooms on the island. The terrace end of their open plan interior leads directly onto the beach; thirty paces from your bed. The same is true for the restaurants (there are two), the colonial bar and the pool.
It is considered the best hotel in Grenada, and deservedly so. It runs like clockwork, the service is personable and professional, and the style is a cool and contemporary version of a Caribbean classic, limestone colonial. A lot of effort has gone into creating a look that appears effortless. It’s a laidback place that makes running a hotel look easy.
To be a guest at Spice Island Beach Resort, is to live in elegant luxury on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
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£2,379 pp
Perfect for families
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Strawberry Hill is a former coffee plantation perched on a plateau 3,100 feet above sea level. It looks down on the sprawling city of Kingston below and the blue-green waters of the Caribbean beyond.
The architecture and design of Strawberry Hill’s twelve guest villas are stunning. With their awnings, verandas and mountain vistas, they are apparently a self-contained world set apart from local life. But in fact the place continues to play a role in Jamaican society – key members of Kingston’s urban set make the forty-five minute drive to the renowned restaurant each week to eat, discuss and linger until sunset.
Aside from the food, the spectacular location and the cool temperatures, Strawberry Hill is also renowned as an Aveda spa.
Colonial plantation style meets island cool in the misty blue mountains of Jamaica.
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£2,075 pp
Stunning retreat in the Blue Mountains
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Perched on craggy cliffs thirty feet above a translucent emerald green sea, this hotel is unique in the Caribbean. The sea caves are filled with the inhabitants of the coral reef: eels, parrot fish and rays. Some of the caves are large enough to take boats into, and of course it's a paradise for diving and snorkelling. Snorkelling equipment is all included in the room rates; all you have to do is launch yourself into the twenty-foot waters below.
The caves are just part of an experience that is totally Jamaican. From the hand-made wooden furniture to the colourful fabrics and local works of art. The food is wholesome, with an emphasis on fresh fish, Jamaican-style vegetables and tropical fruit. Reggae and blues are played in the thatched cliff-side pavilion where meals are served. There are no televisions; evening entertainment consists of lively conversation enhanced by rum cocktails.
It is a small jungle-clad retreat of thatched timber huts that literally sit on and between some of the most spectacular sea caves in the world.
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Mustique, St Vincent & Grenadines, Caribbean
In 1959 Lord Glenconner bought the entire island for £45,000, a small fortune then for an island without buildings, services or water. He created the hotel to encourage guests to visit and purchase land – to this day this exclusive island is privately owned by those who chose to be homeowners on this earthly paradise.
Today the restored remains of the plantation including the windmill and warehouse form the core of the Cotton House hotel, the dining room, the ballroom, and the popular Monkey Bar, and guests are accommodated in individual houses of their own each with a view. It has the best location on this man-made Eden, on a promontory that divides windswept L'Ansecoy Bay from the calm green waters on the other side.
Cotton House is a collection of individual “residences” dotted around a lush old sugar plantation estate.
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£2,075 pp in high season
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Cloudless blue skies juxtaposed against cricket whites and emerald green lawns...
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With only 34 rooms and suites, the proprietor’s chose the name to suggest the ambience of renting a villa as opposed to staying in a hotel. Only, in this adults-only villa, they serve up complimentary Champagne breakfasts, afternoon tea, evening canapés and a 30 minute jet-lag massage. Ambassadors are ever-present to cater to guests' every whim!
On a design front its combination of smooth lines of teak, curved lanterns and modern lighting to set the mood, is suitably exotic. It's a beautifully intimate place with plenty of privacy for romantic dining. For food lovers The House may be one of the best hunting grounds on the island, because the most acclaimed addition to the Barbados restaurant scene is the adjacent Daphne’s. Located bang on the beach, this satellite of the famous London restaurant, is regarded by many as better than the original.
The House is the beachside version of a hip downtown hotel.
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£1,699 pp in low season (May-Oct)
£1,499 pp in high season (prices include up to 35% savings for bookings by 30th April)
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Elegant and discreet are the words that best sum up The Sandpiper. It is not a hotel that wants to impress with its cutting edge newness or with its size. It is a timeless property that has the same patrician feel you come across in a Ralph Lauren ad. It is stylish in a seemingly effortless fashion that belies the work and quality that goes into creating a place like this.
Situated on the quieter West coast of Barbados, The Sandpiper is in the ideal location for water sports (sailing, water skiing, diving, swimming) and it is also within easy access of all the islands’ best bars, restaurants and nightlife.
The Sandpiper’s forty-seven rooms, suites and Tree Top suites are set in seven acres of landscaped gardens and the interiors are distinguished by a distinctly colonial feel that includes pickled pine ceilings and plantation-style detailing for the doors and windows.
A small colonial gem on the beach.
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£1,775 pp in low season
£1,995 pp in high season
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With two white sand beaches and a postcard setting, the Viceroy Anguilla combines the natural beauty we all hope to find in the Caribbean with the flair of contemporary architecture and the rich textural layering that distinguishes Kelly Wearstler’s interior design.
Perched on a bluff as if parked there by the ocean swell, the Viceroy Anguilla literally straddles both Barnes and Meads Bay. The strong horizontal lines of its modern architecture are flanked by two strips of fine, pale sand.
Accommodation choices vary from elegant garden view rooms, to beach front villas with private pools. What all the rooms have in common is the distinctly tactile and toned down sophistication of Kelly Wearstler’s design signature; combining travertine, bleached teak, linen, rattan, bamboo and the odd piece of sculptural driftwood fashioned into exotic table lamps.
Thirty five sophisticated and polished acres of idyllic Caribbean beach frontage.
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£2,269 pp in low seaon (may-oct)
£2,739 pp in high seaon (nov-apr)
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Hidden in the small village of Playa Xcalacoco on the stretch of Caribbean coast known as Riviera Maya, this is an intimate collection of private guest bungalows in a dramatic setting that weaves together the jungle, the beach and the aesthetics of a style influenced by the culture of the Maya.
They call it the Riviera Maya, a two hundred and thirty mile long ribbon of perfect white sand that stretches from Cancun, on the Eastern most point of the Yucatan peninsular, to the border with Belize. Viceroy Riviera Maya is situated just outside the town of Playa Del Carmen - Yucatan’s version of Saint Tropez.
Seven miles of sandy beaches, acres of untouched jungle and thirty stylishly sophisticated villas.
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£2,339 pp in low season
£2,989 pp in high season
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The W Mexico City has taken the influences of legendary Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo and dragged them, kicking and screaming, into the twenty-first Century. Rivera’s fondness for monumental murals have been given a comic book twist and the colours of the Mexican arts and crafts tradition as promoted by Frida Khalo have been used with abandon, to the point where the entire hotel is literally awash in saturated colour.
Slick contemporary spaces meet pulsating Mexican colours.
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