PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica – Sandals Resorts will expand its five-star Royal Plantation brand with the 2010 opening of the 130-unit Royal Plantation Dragon Bay in Port Antonio, Jamaica.
The opening will follow a $100 million expansion and high-end redevelopment program, scheduled to begin in eight months. Sandals has owned the property and site of the Dragon Bay Hotel for several years. The property will market itself as a spa with a hotel.
Accommodations will include new construction on the site of the former hotel and villa units of the bluff side of the resort.
Five or six styles of guest accommodations will be offered, from one-bedroom suites to five-star treehouses, according to Jaime Stewart, managing director of the Royal Plantation brand.
The villas may be designated as an adults-only site, although Dragon Bay will accept children. The spa will not be one block of buildings but will be scattered throughout the property in different settings, including the caves on the bluff and in the Zen gardens. (Travel Weekly News – June 3, 2008)
