Canouan beach resort in St Vincent & the Grenadines

country:	St. Vincent & the Grenadines
location:	Canouan Island
price:	From US $250 - US $325 per double room per night. From US $210 - US $280 per single room per night. From US $480 - US $610 per suite per night. Prices depend on season: high season Jan - Apr

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This beachfront hotel & yacht club is a lively oasis with 39 seaside hideaways, surrounded by tropical gardens, on a long white sand beach.

The low-rise property features two thatched-roof restaurants/bars: the "Palapa Restaurant", with a delightful open terrace right at the water edge, offering Italian and West Indian cuisine and the “Pirates Cove” an informal bar serving lighter fare. Beach bar, water sports (hydro bikes, windsurf, canoe and sunfish) and massage facilities are all available.

This small Italian-managed hotel offers travelers the welcoming charm of the Caribbean combined with warm Italian hospitality and style, as well as Italian influenced cuisine and architecture. It is the ideal location for lazy beach days and day trips exploring the Grenadines by boat.

rooms, food and facilities

The hotel offers 8 beachfront suites and 32 beachfront rooms. All rooms and suites are air-conditioned and are lined with Brazilian walnut wood paneling with balconies overlooking the Caribbean Sea.

Other facilities:

Transfers to/from airport

Twice daily maid service

Welcome drink

Personal in-room safe

Telephone

Mini bar/refrigerator

Hairdryer

Twin beds available

Water sports: Hydro-bikes, snorkeling equipment and sunfish

Air-conditioning

Family friendly: Families are welcome and we offer the second room for children under the age of 12 yrs at a 50% discount. Infants under the age of 5 stay free and we have baby cots etc to accommodate them as well as a babysitter service.

how to find us

By air: Canouan Island is accessible by air from UK, US, Canada and Europe through five major gateways - Barbados (55 min), Grenada (20 min), Martinique (60 min), St Lucia (40 min) and mainland St Vincent (15 min)

how this holiday makes a difference

Socially beneficial practices:

Canouan Regatta & Canouan Carnival - We offer complimentary stay to their Contestants, Guest Artists & DJ’s etc… for the duration of events.
Community projects – We participate through our holding company towards the construction of the health clinic & police station.
Community sponsorship – We provide funds towards buying of team uniforms for Canouan Football & Basketball teams. We also offer complimentary stay to the referees. For the local primary school, we provide food for their closure party.
Training – We provide internship training to college students studying tourism in St. Vincent. We also offer fire & first aid training to our staff.
Cultural information to guests – We have informed our guests of the new project in SVG, which is the international airport in St Vincent. There is also our Marine Park, the Tobago Cays as well as SVG Carnival, the Blues Festival of which we can keep the guests posted of the dates of the various upcoming events.

Environmentally beneficial practices:

Water conservation - Each guest room has a message in the bathroom asking to conserve water and to leave daily towels that need to be washed, on the floor. Through the gray water recycling system, we also collect water in 3 different tanks & reuse toilet & shower water in the gardens.
Conservation of electricity – Our solar panel is used to produce hot water for the whole hotel. This includes: The guest rooms, kitchen, laundry etc. The lights & air conditioning in the offices are switched off when the offices are not in use.
Environmental cleaning products – We only use Johnson’s Diversity cleaning products in the Laundry and also in our guest rooms.
Paper free office – We use recycled paper.

Economically beneficial practices:

Local employment – 78 members of staff are local. They come from St. Vincent, Canouan & Union Island.
Purchase of local produce – We buy most of our produce from St. Vincent & provide local dishes on our menus.
Use of local services – Our Services for Maintenance, Plumbing & Electricity is always done by the same people, who are all local.

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