The Luxurious-Included expertise takes one other thrilling flip at one of many Caribbean’s most pure areas.
The experience from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to the south facet of the island is a scenic cruise via quiet sugar-cane fields and thick forest. From the seat of a complimentary Sandals airport switch, you cross via sleepy tropical villages with promising names—Bluefields and New Hope—as the brand new butter-smooth highway traces via what has been referred to as “the uncharted land” of Jamaica.
Pure. Lush. Distant. Zero commercialization. You get the image.
*Image: The enduring YS Falls, the place cascading waterfalls and plush gardens create the right oasis for journey and rest. *
However there’s one thing else occurring, privately, in a small nook of this scene. Round just a few mild turns and down a lonely palm-tree framed lane is a secluded enclave. It’s tucked loosely between the enjoyable Caribbean Sea and a 500-acre nature protect. Individuals within the rural neighborhood understand it as Sandals South Coast. And anybody conversant in luxury all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean acknowledges Sandals South Coast as a fantastically distant hub of innovation.
Image: Surrounded by a 500-acre nature reserve, Sandals South Coast is the place for a secluded luxury-included trip for 2.
Simply as Silicon Valley modifications the way in which we take a look at know-how, Sandals South Coast is the place the lofty concept of being ensconced in Caribbean luxurious is constantly reimagined. If it’s by no means been accomplished some place else, then it may very well be an ideal match proper right here.
“Sandals South Coast has an important assets for us to innovate,” says Gordon “Butch” Stewart, Chairman of Sandals Resorts. “Water, nature and privateness.”
And so, yearly or two, a dreamy imaginative and prescient that unites these three assets with luxurious turns into actuality. Right here, on this barely-touched haven.
“My spouse and I’ve chosen to journey to Sandals South Coast six instances and counting,” says Peyton Waddell of the Orlando space, “and each time we arrive, we see one thing gorgeous… I imply, actually gorgeous.”
Image: The brand new Swim-Up Rondoval Suites at Sandals South Coast, nestled across the resort’s one-of-a-kind zero-entry pool.
Put together to be shocked once more—twice. Sandals South Coast is about to unveil
the model’s first-ever Swim-Up Rondoval Suites… the primary on the planet. Sure, not simply within the Caribbean, on the planet.
Sandals beforehand launched garden Rondovals and beachfront Rondovals in Antigua and Saint Lucia, adopted by Grenada and Barbados—the round designs, excessive thatched roofs, and isolation impressed by Sandals’ deep Caribbean heritage.
However till now the intimate Rondoval expertise has by no means included a swim-out and swim-in pool weaving via it. Even the pool itself at Sandals South Coast creates its personal new class: it spans 17,040 sq. ft, making it the longest swimming pool within the Western Hemisphere.
Image: The brand new Swim-up Rondoval Suites boast hovering conical ceilings, a serenity swing for 2, a customized king-size mattress with an unique, carved headboard and a non-public pool.
It’s true, the longest swimming pool on this facet of the world meanders via conical-shaped suites with centuries of historical past in a distant attain of Jamaica.
“Innovation to us consists of how nicely we will seize authenticity in an opulent setting,” says Sandals’ Deputy Chairman Adam Stewart. “After I was rising up in Jamaica, we have been all the time taking part in within the rivers and waterfalls and the ocean. That’s why Sandals South Coast is the best vacation spot to be artistic. It’s an oasis, surrounded by nature and water.”
Image: Enjoy your peaceable retreat with a rest room that features a giant, strong stone soaking tub, walk-in bathe and freestanding vainness with a double sided mirror.
If there may very well be such a factor as an oasis inside an oasis, then the Dutch Village is it. Utilizing water as a supply of inspiration, Sandals South Coast has additionally reimagined the Dutch Village, a results of the Sandals design group envisioning an immersive Caribbean expertise, inside and outside.
All 16 Butler Elite suites and all 96 Membership and Luxurious Degree rooms are positioned inside a body of ocean, and now boast two new swim-up swimming pools that encompass the Dutch Village buildings. And what can’t be duplicated wherever else is the truth that your complete village fronts some of the attractive stretches of the Caribbean Sea — a spot Butch Stewart selected for its distinctive peace and wonder almost 20 years in the past.
Image: The Dutch Village is a real oasis at Sandals South Coast.
Every Dutch Village suite has been re-envisioned to permit {couples} to, amongst different issues, chill out in a free-standing inside bathe, unwind in an outdoor Tranquility Soaking Tub, and use the pool to swim out and swim again in, all in privateness.
Whether or not they understand it or not, friends at Sandals South Coast are bathing in innovation.
The inspiration behind the innovation
In the event you have been allowed to enterprise deeper into the key areas of the Sandals South Coast property, the place solely workers are permitted, you’d discover a message in huge daring letters on the partitions and above the doorways. They’re fixed reminders of what fuels the individuality of the resort.
“Exceed the expectations of the visitor.”
It isn’t a advertising and marketing phrase. It’s a name to motion from Gordon “Butch” Stewart, Chairman of Sandals Resorts. Which explains why the butlers throughout all Sandals Resorts are so proactive, understanding what and when to serve earlier than being requested. However on a a lot grander stage “exceed the expectations” is an important blueprint for the innovating, particularly right here at Sandals South Coast.
{Couples} who’ve walked alongside the non-public two-mile-long seashore usually cease in their very own footprints to marvel. There, on the finish of an extended boardwalk, are Sandals’ Over-the-Water Bungalows generously distanced from one another in a heart-shaped sample. Needless to say Over-the-Water Bungalows have been ceaselessly thought-about architectural wonders, discovered solely within the South Pacific or Asia. However then Stewart and the Sandals group determined to dismantle the “can’t-be-done” notion and found a solution to deliver the whole overwater expertise to their Jamaican dwelling.
Image: Sandals South Coast’s revolutionary Over-The-Water Bungalows.
“I’ve all the time mentioned that being on the water is the place I’m happiest,” says Stewart, “and these suites present friends a direct hyperlink to the Caribbean Sea. They’re one more stage of innovating luxurious.”
They’re handy, too. As Waddell factors out, “It will take ceaselessly and a fortune for my spouse and me to journey to the overwater bungalows in Tahiti or the Maldives. However now we will have the overwater expertise for our anniversary or simply… as a result of. It isn’t once-in-a-lifetime—or never-in-a-lifetime—anymore.”
Up the seashore from the Over-the-Water Bungalows, expectations are once more exceeded as a result of the ocean is the figurative pillar for Latitudes, an over-the-water bar. From the hug of a hammock, friends can soak up a pure 360-degree view of the Caribbean as if lounging on the deck of a yacht.
Image: Sandals South Coast’s latest bar, Latitudes° Over Water Bar, options 360° ocean views. The perfect half: all drinks are on us!
After which, a bit farther alongside the white sand is maybe essentially the most gorgeous sight of all. At twilight it seems as a mirage: An Over-the-Water Serenity Wedding ceremony Chapel with a glass flooring positioned above the glass-calm water. Making you are feeling like you’re one with the ocean—a sense you’ll be able to’t get wherever else.
Image: No matter you dream your wedding ceremony to be, the Over-the-Water Serenity Wedding ceremony Chapel at Sandals South Coast will make it one to always remember.
All of it occurs right here—the Swim-Up Rondoval Suites, the longest pool on this facet of the Earth, the Over-the-Water Bungalows, the over-the-water bar, and the over-the-water chapel—on this hidden sanctuary at Sandals South Coast. The place water and nature frequently drive innovation past the loftiest expectations.
