HotelChatter

Tags: Hotel Wedding Crashers / Hotel Weddings / Larry Page / Hotel News / Rosewood Resorts / → All Tags

Little Dix Bay Resort All Filled Up for Larry Page's Guests

Where: PO BOX 70 THE VALLEY, VIRGIN GORDA, Virgin Islands, British

Sometimes billionaire nerds are the worst hotel wedding crashers. This Saturday, Google co-founder Larry Page will tie the know with his fiancee on Necker Island, the private Caribbean island owned by Virgin's Richard Branson.

Necker Island is pretty extravagant place that can house 26 of your closest friends. But Page obviously has more than 26 "friends" so he has rented the nearby island of Virgin Gorda for his wedding guests, including the entire Little Dix Bay Resort:

No one except Page's guests is staying at Little Dix Bay resort on Virgin Gorda "so that Page's wedding could be completely private," said an insider. "They rented all of Virgin Gorda. They took over the island."

The source also said "boats and ferries for hundreds of guests were ordered to ship them from Little Dix Bay to the ceremony."

Page is also flying guests in from all over the world on private planes. Expected to be in attendance are Bono, and other millionaires and billionaires.

Related Stories:
· Google Wedding Seizes Island [Page Six]

Tags: Hotel News / Caribbean Hotels / → All Tags

Rockefeller Would Be Proud

Where: P.O. Box 70, Virgin Gorda

Mogul Laurance S. Rockefeller didn't mind that Columbus named a small piece of Caribbean paradise after a "Fat Virgin." Rockefeller's Little Dix Bay resort on Virgin Gorda is the epitome of a sleek supermodel who's anything but a virgin.

As hot as it is, however, Rosewood Resorts' Little Dix Bay is undergoing a bit of a nip/tuck that will soon reveal brand new guest rooms, junior suites and villas. According to a Rosewood rep, "It's a complete transformation in keeping with Laurance Rockefeller's vision of earth in balance when he founded the resort in the 1960s."

Although Rockefeller died in 2004, his vision also lives on in his former cottage at the Rosewood Resort's swank St. John stay, Caneel Bay, also undergoing a facelift, in which Rockefeller's former residence, Cottage 7, was recently revamped and 89 of the resort's 166 guestrooms are being transformed and ready for its close up sometime this fall.

As much as Rockefeller loved his hotels, which once were under the umbrella of his company Rockresorts, he also had a fascination with UFOs and the study of crop circles, neither of which have been spotted at any of his former resorts.

Related Stories:
· Little Dix Bay reviews [TripAdvisor]