VIDEO: A Quick Trip to Sugar Reef, Bequia

By: - December 7th, 2015

It’s the most charming hotel in Bequia: Sugar Reef, the boutique hotel with just eight rooms on a magical beach in the Grenadines.

The property is set on a 65-acre coconut plantation on the edge of a quarter-mile-long beach.

It’s a throwback to another era of Caribbean travel — four -poster-beds, stone walls, total privacy.

And here’s what the view is like:

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