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Hotel Feature The Peninsula House, Dominican Republic

Unparalleled elegance and world class services set amidst the beauty of the Samana Peninsula... Welcome to The Peninsula House, the Dominican Republic's first exceptional small luxury hotel. Within this lovely Victorian house, a central courtyard leads to cozy parlors, a library, the dining room, the bar, the superb accommodations and the veranda, which looks out on private gardens that extend to the swimming pool area. Everywhere, the ocean view is captivating.

Six decadently appointed spacious junior suites outfitted with dramatic high ceilings and crown moldings, Museum-quality works of art, hardwood floors and four posted king beds draped with Frette linens. Oversized bathrooms feature mahogany soaking tubs, bath amenities direct from the olive groves of Provence and walk-in rainforest showers. Sitting areas are complimented by French doors opening onto expansive verandas with views of the ocean and gardens.

  
World Heritage Site, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
After the arrival of Christopher Columbus on the island of Hispaniola in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town was laid out on the grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World. The city was to be embellished with a cathedral, a hospital, convents, a fortress and a university. At that time it was not appropriate to describe these buildings as having been built in the colonial architectural style because they were all based on plans that faithfully followed models imported from Spain. Earthquakes and pirate attacks were in due course to ravage the main buildings of the city, such as the convents of the Dominican, Franciscan and Las Mercedes, the three religious orders that pioneered the evangelization of the New World, and the Hospital of Nicolás de Ovando.
   
Among the most outstanding buildings, the cathedral was constructed between 1514 and 1542; it is the oldest in America, and is one of the architectural wonders of the Colonial City. The main entrance stands next to the Columbus Plaza, where stands a giant statue of the great navigator himself. The fine stained glass is by the famed Dominican artist José Rinçon Mora.

Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC Photo on Right: Colonial City of Santo Domingo (22/08/2007) © Pedro Szekely

World Heritage Site, The Pitons, St Lucia

The 2,909-ha site near the town of Soufriere includes the Pitons, two volcanic spires rising side by side from the sea (770 m and 743 m high respectively), linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. The volcanic complex includes a geothermal field with sulphurous fumeroles and hot springs. Coral reefs cover almost 60% of the site's marine area. A survey has revealed 168 species of finfish, 60 species of cnidaria, including corals, eight molluscs, 14 sponges, 11 echinoderms, 15 arthropods and eight annelid worms.

The dominant terrestrial vegetation is tropical moist forest grading to subtropical wet forest, with small areas of dry forest and wet elfin woodland on the summits. At least 148 plant species have been recorded on Gros Piton, 97 on Petit Piton and the intervening ridge, among them eight rare tree species. The Gros Piton is home to some 27 bird species (five of them endemic), three indigenous rodents, one opossum, three bats, eight reptiles and three amphibians.

Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC Photo:Tri-X Pan from Belmont, NC
   
Hotel Feature La Luna, Grenada
 

"Paradise found! Laluna combines the Italian enthusiasm and sensibility of its owner Bernardo Bertucci, with the relaxed Caribbean charm of his wife Wendy to achieve a truly magical experience" Harper's Bazaar

All The suites are designed in an open-style with a generously sized and tastefully appointed bedroom, that open onto an expansive veranda with a private plunge pool. Our unique open air bathrooms have showers with an ocean view and are equipped with an Italian line of bath products, made exclusively in a monastery in the Italian Alps, by Hortus Fratris.

Laluna's spa has a Balinese influence like the resort, and successfully integrated Caribbean charm and Eastern techniques, with products exclusively hand made in Bali. Read more here

 
 
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  Hotel Feature Hermitage Plantation Inn, Nevis  
         
     
       
 

The Hermitage Plantation is more than one of the oldest Nevis Hotels in operations, in fact more than a hotel, it is one of the oldest wooden houses in the Caribbean, and it is a home to our guests; a home with a very long tradition of welcoming guests to Nevis.

The great house was built around 1700 from the rare Nevis hardwood Lignum Vitae, the house has always been in use, as a hotel, as an artist studio, as the head quarters for the Minister of Agriculture, as a rich planter’s home, and as a poor planter’s home. Come feel the years of history and ambiance that makes the Hermitage one of the most special of the St Kitts and Nevis hotels. Read more here

   
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