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St George's, Grenada
9 out of 10 Telegraph expert rating
This couples-only, all-inclusive resort – in a secluded spot in southwest Grenada – offers dramatically designed rooms, a wide choice of quality restaurants and excellent service. A romantic atmosphere prevails: you can luxuriate in poolside hot tubs during the day, and chill by fire pits at night.
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Fred Mawer, Destination expert
In the far southwest corner of Grenada, across a hill from the airport – transfers take less than five minutes. The property sits at one end of the 400-yard-long Pink Gin Beach, with panoramic views up the coast to St George's and Grenada's mountainous interior.
The beach is exposed and the sea can be choppy, so Sandals has created breakwaters to provide a protected area for swimming. Beyond the hotel, the cliff-backed beach is unspoiled and usually empty – ideal for a romantic stroll.
Style and Character
This is an upmarket all-inclusive pitched at couples. It covers 17 acres of manicured grounds, with rooms spread over four 'villages': the Pink Gin Village, Italian Village, South Seas Village and Lover's Hideaway Village.
Daytime focal points include two large swimming pools – one lively with a swim-up pool bar and flanked by a hot tub and cabanas, the other with a fire pit set in its middle – and the sandy beach, where you can snooze in hammocks or play volleyball. At nighttime, the main focal point is The Living Room, a large bar/lounge area with swinging sofas, where there's good-quality live music most nights.
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Service and Facilities
Service is excellent. Staff undergo a thorough 'Sandalisation' process before they start, to ensure they provide top-notch service. Gardeners say hello; chatty barmen shoot the breeze with punters; enthusiastic 'playmakers' get guests to join in games such as volleyball.
Top-level suites come with access to butlers dressed in waistcoats and bow ties, who will do everything from unpacking your clothes to bagging the best sunlounger by the pool (and thereby annoying guests without butler access). You are provided with a mobile phone pre-set with the butlers' number so you can contact them 24/7.
As well as the pools and communal hot tubs, there's a fancy gym (it overlooks a pond where iguanas hang out), an attractive spa with a sauna and steam room as well as treatment rooms, beach and pool volleyball, and tennis courts. The watersports centre offers a range of non-motorised watersports, though the sea can sometimes be too choppy to be able to use the equipment. Diving, which is excellent off Grenada, is also on offer, and included in the rates for certified divers.
Steam room/hammam
The 257 rooms are divided into 22 categories. All come with mahogany furnishings, colourful prints of beachy Caribbean scenes and snazzy marble bathrooms; a fair number have tubs on their terraces or balconies.
Other than that, there's a lot of variation. Some of the cheaper rooms are in the Pink Gin Village – arguably the best-placed area, as it's nearest the beach and has the best ocean views. At the other end of the spectrum – and price range – are suites with memorable features. SkyPool suites have an infinity-edge plunge pool; Swim-up suites have direct access from their patio into a river-like pool; thatched-roofed Rondoval suites have a private plunge pool in a walled garden.
More expensive Club and Butler Level accommodation come with higher levels of service and are stocked with full bottles of spirits, while entry-level rooms come with wine, beer and soft drinks.
The choice of restaurants – 10 in all, some outdoors and casual, others in smart glass-walled pavilions – and the quality of the food is very impressive for an all-inclusive hotel. The most stylish and upmarket place to dine is Butch's Chophouse, a steakhouse. There are also Caribbean, Italian, Japanese, sushi and French à la carte restaurants, and a French patisserie (the nutmeg ice cream is recommended).
Unlike in most all-inclusives there is no extra charge to eat in any of the restaurants, and no restriction on how often you can eat in particular ones. Breakfast is an expansive buffet with a big choice of cold and hot options, or you can just grab a coffee and pastry at the French patisserie.
The six bars include a version of an English pub. Household-name, high-end brands of spirits and very quaffable Californian wine are covered in the all-inclusive terms.
Double rooms from £425 in low season; and from £521 in high, on an all-inclusive basis. Free Wi-Fi. Except for spa treatments, all on-site activities are included in the rates. Most stays are booked as packages, which works out more affordably. Sandals' key sales pitch is 'Luxury Included' – and you do get plenty for your money here, especially in terms of food and drink.
Access for guests with disabilities?
There are wheelchair-adapted rooms, and level or ramped access to main public areas.
Family-Friendly?
No. The property is adults-only.
Pink Gin Beach, St George's, Grenada.
00 1 473 437 8000 sandals.co.uk
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