More Details on Fairmont Saint Lucia Project

By: - January 23rd, 2019
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Saint Lucia.

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Fairmont brand is expanding in the Caribbean, with its second regional property coming to the island of Saint Lucia.

The project, which will be set in Sunset Bay, Choiseul on the southwestern corner of the island, will join the only other Fairmont property in the Caribbean in Barbados.

The luxury project, which is slated fro completion in 2021, is being constructed by the GP Group.

Invest Saint Lucia, the government of Saint Lucia’s official promotions agency, said the project would be comprised of 93 rooms, 43 bungalows and 40 villas.

The project had first been announced in 2017.

— CJ

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