Grenada's Silversands Resort to Launch in March

by Brian Major
Last updated: 7:00 PM ET, Wed August 16, 2017

An emerging Caribbean travel hotspot will expand its premium resort inventory next spring when the 43-suite Silversands Grenada resort opens in March on Grenada's Grand Anse Beach.

The $70 million oceanfront resort will offer a deluxe guest experience, including spacious suites ranging from 720 to 2,066 square feet. Room configurations include 39 open-plan suites, three one-bedroom suites and one large penthouse.

Silversands will also include nine residential villas, each ranging from 13,500 to 26,500 square feet. The resort's plan calls for five beachfront and four hillside villas. All resort's accommodations will feature modern, minimalist interiors designed to blend with and highlight Grenada's lush natural landscape.

A 100-meter pool, billed as the Caribbean's largest, will highlight the resort's facilities, which will also include a full-service spa equipped with four treatment rooms, a sauna and hammam, and a swimming pool and health and fitness facility.

Resort dining will feature a fresh local-fare breakfast venue and a modern Thai restaurant. Guests will also find a private beach club with resident DJ and curated, rotating art collections in public spaces.

The new resort is part of a significant expansion in Grenada's hotel sector. Patricia Maher, CEO of Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA), said Grenada's hotel room stock will grow by 26 percent in the next two to three years.

"We look forward to the opening of this resort," said Maher. The property will inspire travelers to discover Grenada's "awe-inspiring natural landscape, delicious food, spectacular locally-guided activities and the friendliest people in the Caribbean," she added.

Other planned properties include the 146-room Kimpton Kawana Bay Grenada Resort, scheduled to open in 2019. Positioned between Grand Anse Beach and a tropical rainforest, the resort will offer multiple suite categories with private pools overlooking the beach, plus an infinity pool, a "chef-driven" restaurant and a fitness center, spa and water sports facilities.

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Another development, the 375-acre Levera Beach Resort, will feature a "conservation focus" and launch in four phases beginning in December. The Turtle Beach Hotel, an 80-unit boutique hotel featuring 40 cottages and 20 casitas and villas, will be the expansive development's first property. The "hotel-within-a-hotel" will feature three pools, a holistic spa, two restaurants supplied by local farms, and an on-site organic orchard, said GTA officials.

The new resorts come as Grenada welcomes growing visitor arrivals, even as GTA seeks to increase the island's land-based visitor numbers. Grenada's tourist visits were up over eight percent year-over-year in 2016, said Maher. Overnight land-based guests totaled 144,333 last year, a 2.6 percent year-over-year increase, while Grenada hosted 314,473 cruise ship visitors in 2016, a strong 16.3 percent gain over 2015. GTA is targeting just over 500,000 visitors in 2017, said Maher.

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