New St Lucia Fly to Let villas attract advanced rental bookings
The renovation of 85 hotel cottages into luxurious state-of-the-art Fly to Let villas at The Tides Sugar Beach resort in St Lucia is progressing on schedule.
Fifteen contemporary colonial-style villas are now finished and are already receiving guests. 37 have been sold to private buyers and more than 50 are expected to be completed by the end of this year.
The Fly to Let investment villas are part of a $100 million programme to rebuild the Jalousie Plantation on the south western tip of St Lucia into one of the best 5 star world-class hotel and residential developments in the Caribbean.
Two areas of the resort are now finished. The villas are arranged in clusters of between six and 15 properties set in verdant vegetation. Cluster 700 is made up of four one-bed villas, starting from $700,000, three one-bed deluxe villas and two two-bed superior deluxe villas starting from $1,510,000. There have been many advanced rental bookings and the villas in these clusters are already running at full occupancy.
Cluster 900 is made up of three two-bed superior villas and three one bed deluxe villas. All the villas have their own private butler service and including colonial fretwork, four-poster beds, air conditioning, flat screen TVs and iPod stations, spacious showers, claw foot bathtubs, walk-in wardrobes, plunge pools and luxurious linens.
Cluster 800 which will incorporate one bed villa, eight one bed deluxe villas and three two bed superior deluxe villas (from $1,510,000) is currently under construction and due for completion in October 2009. Work on Cluster 500, which started at the beginning of March, is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
The resort will be officially re-branded The Tides Sugar Beach when it is completed in 2011. It will be fully managed by Los Angeles-based Kor Hotel Group. Other facilities include a spa, restaurants and beach club.
The resort is located between the St Lucian Piton Mountains, on a protected UNESCO world heritage site. Buyers at Sugar Beach have been assured that no further building permissions will be granted on the 192 acre site.
The rainforest walkway is also open. St Lucia’s Director of Tourism, The Honourable Senator Allen Chastanet took a tour of the resort in February 2009 and officially opened the walkway for the resort’s Rainforest Spa.
The rainforest walkway will connect to a series of private treatment cabanas as part of the Tides Sugar Beach Rainforest Spa. The Rainforest spa will offer holistic wellness programs which use sustainable, marine-based spa products and treatments which embrace the style and spirit of the island.
The private treatment cabanas, which will be dotted through the lush rainforest at different heights allowing varied views of the spectacular surroundings. Construction of the cabanas will start at the end of 2009.
Marco Bonini, Sales Director of Sugar Beach said: “Work at The Tides Sugar Beach villa renovations, the hotel facilities and on the construction of the beautiful rainforest spa is progressing well and on schedule.
“In 2011 when the project is completed there will be nowhere else quite like The Tides Sugar Beach with its luxurious properties, accommodation and facilities set within the unique setting of the UNESCO protected Pitons.”