Petit St. Vincent Reopens with Upgrades

Petit St. Vincent Reopens with Upgrades
By Gay Nagle Myers (Travel Weekly)

Petit St. Vincent, the 22-cottage private island hideaway in the Grenadines, reopened Nov. 1 following a four-month closure for a major renovation and refurbishment. The cottages were upgraded, and a spa and beach restaurant added.

Petit St. Vincent has no airstrip (guests fly into nearby Union Island and take a boat transfer), no TVs or telephones in the rooms, no reception desk and no room keys. Cottages are dotted along the two miles of beach and on the bluffs. Starting rates this winter are $1,050 per night, per couple, and include all meals. New for the 2011-12 season is a Seven for Six program (seven nights for the price of six).

A seven-night honeymoon and romance package with a private dinner on the beach, massage for two, a half-day snorkeling trip to the Tobago Cays and a picnic on Mopion Islands starts at $6,750, double. Packages are valid through August 2012.

The island resort is owned by two international business partners who formed Freedom Resorts Ltd. and purchased the property in November 2010. Petit St. Vincent opened in 1968 as a pioneer in sustainable tourism and was managed and run for years by the late Haze K. Richardson II.