The Caribbean Boutique Hotel Awards – 2019

By: - September 19th, 2019
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The Southern Cross Club.

Boutique Adventure Hotel of the Year: Southern Cross Club, Little Cayman Still one of the best-kept secrets in the entire Caribbean, tiny Little Cayman is paradise for adventure seekers, with some of the world’s best diving and fishing at your fingertips. And that sense of adventure has been distilled into the Southern Cross Club, a boutique retreat that began life in 1958 as a fishing and has now turned into one of the Caribbean’s adventure Meccas. The hotel is a mix of toes-in-the-sand, colorful beach bungalows that marry with a Caribbean-fusion eatery and the kind of lodge-style community feel that’s a rather hard thing to find these days.


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