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Sandy Lane Resort

Sandy Lane Hotel
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The Sandy Lane Resort
Sandy Lane (resort) is located in Barbados
Sandy Lane (resort)
Location within Barbados
General information
Location Holetown, Saint James, Barbados
Coordinates 13°10′24″N 59°38′13″W / 13.17333°N 59.63694°W / 13.17333; -59.63694
Opening 1 January 1961
Owner J. P. McManus, Dermot Desmond and John Magnier
Other information
Number of rooms 113
Number of suites 22
Number of restaurants 4 + 7 Bars
Website
www.sandylane.com

Sandy Lane is a luxury five star beach-front resort situated close to Holetown and Paynes Bay, in Saint James on the island-nation of Barbados. Sandy Lane was first opened in 1933 after Ronald Tree, a former British politician, had an idea to build a luxury hotel and golf course on what was an old sugar plantation named 'Sandy Lane'. In 1998, after being put up for sale by Granada plc, a group of five Irish businessmen including J. P. McManus, Dermot Desmond and John Magnier, bought the hotel. The original resort was then demolished and for three years underwent a $450 million upgrade and renovation. The brand new resort, designed by Richmond International was then reopened in March 2001. In 2009 Sandy Lane became a member of The Leading Hotels of the World (LHW).

The resort features 112 guestrooms and suites as well as a five-bedroom villa, a 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m2) Spa, four restaurants, seven bars and three golf courses. The reef just off the coast from the hotel, Little Sandy Lane, contains Barracuda, Lobster and several other species of small fish.

Sandy Lane is known as one of the Caribbean's most stylish and family-friendly hotels, as well as being a haven of the rich and famous. Past guests said to have stayed at the Sandy Lane hotel include Maria Callas, Andrea Corr (co-owner Dermot Desmond's daughter-in-law), T. S. Eliot, Queen Elizabeth II, Elton John, Rihanna, Jacqueline Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, Oprah Winfrey,Michael Winner, Simon Cowell, Robin Van Persie and Sidney Poitier


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