Amenities

This resort features two beaches separated by a rocky point. One beach is furnished with lounge chairs, thatch shades, and umbrellas; the other with thatch shades. There is also a boardwalk with umbrella tables and lounge chairs. Other amenities include a free-form main pool and sundeck, and a second adults-only pool. A third pool was added in October 2004, featuring a new bar, sundecks, and loungers. A health-and-beauty spa offers massage, body treatments, facials, waxing, and hair and nail care. Massage options include Swedish and aromatherapy. Body treatments include sea-mud wrap and sea-salt scrub. Facials include one for relieving sunburn. A game room offers video games and Ping-Pong and pool tables.

Ground transportation
Shuttle vans or private cars of varying prices are available. They can be selected during the process of booking an air-inclusive reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.

Rooms

The resort offers 77 guestrooms, suites, and villas in nine two-story buildings colored pale-cream with pastel-green accents, flanked by thick tropical gardens, and fronted by flowers and plants. All accommodations feature balconies or ground floor patios furnished with cushioned lounge chairs and dining sets and providing views of the Caribbean Sea. Pale walls, ceilings, and tile floors serve as background for tropical-color fabrics. Bathrooms feature gleaming marble-finish tile and English toiletries from Gilchrist & Soames. Crank-open louvered panels combine with ceiling fans to offer a cooling alternative to air conditioning.

This All-Inclusive resort includes the following amenities in the All-Inclusive room rate:

• Full breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner
• All premium-brand bar drinks and house wines
• Complimentary stocked minibar in all All-Inclusive guestrooms
• 10% service charge and 8.5% government tax included

Room Amenities

Dining

A complimentary full American/English buffet breakfast is served each morning in Palm Restaurant, and complimentary afternoon tea is served daily on the restaurant's terrace. A complimentary manager's cocktail party is held Monday nights.

Palm Restaurant - Open-air restaurant with three-story wood ceiling. Live plants, white linens. Lunch buffets and à la carte menu of salads, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, seafood, grilled items on alternate days. Four-course fixed-priced dinners with choices of appetizer, soup, main course, dessert. Choices include barbecued chicken spring roll with mango sauce, lobster bisque, sautéed lobster medallions, striploin steak, and vegetarian plate. Friday night international buffet. Monday night barbecue buffet. Dinner dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men.

Vyvien's Restaurant - Adults only. Intimate linen-service dinners served under intricate wood ceilings. Candlelight, rattan chairs, fabric-draped windows, air conditioning. Appetizers include seafood chowder in ring of crisp polenta. Main courses such as grilled venison loin, rack of lamb, sautéed tiger prawns. Dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men.

Pelican Bar - Part of spacious open-air lobby furnished with plants, oversize rattan couches and chairs with plump floral cushions. Live music in adjacent little wood pavilion most nights. After-dark dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men.

Poolside bar - Part of extensive pool/spa tub facility, set amid several sundecks with loungers. Beverages served. Open daily.

Recreation

Use of windsurfers, kayaks, sailboats, snorkeling gear, and a lighted tennis court is complimentary. A fee is charged for waterskiing. An 18-hole golf course is located 2 miles away. Sailing excursions and sunset and moonlight cruises can be booked at the resort. The recreational activities listed below are available at or near the resort; fees may apply.