Sandals to open Beaches Resort in Antigua
Sandals Resorts International (SRI) is to build a new Beaches Resort on Antigua.
SRI, the parent company of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts and Grand Pineapple Beach Resorts, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Antigua to get the project underway.
Beaches Antigua, which will be built on the site of the company’s existing Grand Pineapple Resort in Long Bay, will have one- to four-bedroom rooms and suites, up to 12 restaurants, conferencing facilities, a water park, cinema, Xbox Play Lounge and BMX track.
A launch date has yet to be announced.
Sandals Resorts chairman, Gordon "Butch" Stewart commented: "As a country, Antigua is very dear to our hearts because it was the first place we went when we ventured outside of Jamaica in 1991.
"This particular deal has been a long time coming – we’ve been discussing it for over three years – but it is well worth the wait. Antigua is a stunning country and we’ve enjoyed no end of pleasure operating here. It’s often said that there’s 365 beaches in Antigua, now there’s another!"
The property will become the fifth Beaches Resort in the Jamaican-based company’s portfolio, along with Beaches Barbados, which is set to break ground in the middle of next year.
Other projects this year include the opening of the $120m Key West Village at Beaches Turks and Caicos, an announcement that the company is set to open two resorts in Barbados and the launch of Sandals LaSource Grenada on 21st December of this year.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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