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Empty Your Pockets and Treat Your New Spouse to a Honeymoon Villa on Mustique Island

Jennifer Kester — 2010-10-01T09:14:57-05:00

Prince William and Mick Jagger have sought refuge in Mustique, a 1,400-acre private island in the Grenadine. If it has the approval of British and rock royalty, then it's worth a visit. Obviously, a stay here will require a hefty bank account, so you may want to splurge for something big—like your honeymoon.

The island is banking on that and is trying to woo newlyweds with its new Villa Honeymoon Collection, 12 rentable two-bedroom villas and cottages. Each villa has a private terrace, air conditioning, broadband access and amazing views of the Caribbean Sea or Atlantic Ocean.

Raffles Canouan Island Is One Lucky Hotel

juliana — 2009-02-13T12:30:15-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sportsillustrated_l.jpg" class="top"> By now we all now that <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/bar%20refaeli">Bar Refaeli</a> is 2009's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl. If you didn't know that, then you live in a cave on Mars. But what you probably didn't know was that Bar was sharing the shot with someone else--Canouan Island.Of course, our inquiring minds wanted to know where the models stayed. Fortunately for us, SI gave the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Raffles+Resort+Canouan+Island/local/1013">Raffles Canouan Island Resort</a> a shout-out on their <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009_swimsuit/onlocation/grenada/index2.html">Swimsuit Issue website</a>. And even better, we got more scoop from the hotel's PR firm:<blockquote>Five of Sports Illustrated's top models traveled to Canouan Island including Bar Refaeli, Brooklyn Decker, Jessica White, Jarah Mariano and Hilary Rhoda. Raffles Canouan provided an idyllic setting for

Prince Wills and Kate Frolic at the Firefly Hotel in Mustique

amandak — 2008-08-18T11:19:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Firefly_Hotel_Mustique.jpg" class="imgborder"> So where do a prince and his special girlfriend go when they're utterly sick of being followed around? Apparently, the answer is Mustique Island in St Vincent & The Grenadines where Prince William and Kate Middleton recently spent two weeks enjoying each other's company without too much media around.A bunch of celebrities own villas on this very private island, or you can stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Firefly+Hotel/local/1316">Firefly Hotel</a> with its five unique rooms. If Wills crashed here it would have been in the Royal Palm room, which at current off-peak rates goes for $950 per night (including all meals and your own golf cart for getting around). They also would've had their own iPod and docking station

Raffles Resort Drops the Cost for Summer

amandak — 2008-06-25T09:00:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Raffles_Canounan_Island.jpg" class="imgborder"> A while back we were griping that the luxury <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Raffles+Resort+Canouan+Island/local/1013">Raffles Resort Canouan Island</a> (and its golf course) was a bit pricey at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/22/04131/7018/hotels/Fore_Play_The_Donald_s_Golf_Apprentice_">$455 a night</a> during summer (and almost a hundred bucks more in winter). But the Raffles has come through with a summer special that's quite a bit more reasonable.The promoters claim that the Summer Getaway special rates for this resort are a saving of 56% per cent, although we're not exactly sure where they get that figure. In any case, the rates for summer (through to September 18) are now starting at $360 a night in a double, for a minimum of three nights, plus you get a full buffet breakfast each day,

Google Earth Hotel Reviews: Petit St. Vincent Resort

markj — 2007-12-10T10:00:39-05:00

<![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/petit_stvincent_map.jpg" class="imgborder"> If you live here in the Northeast, you woke up to freezing rain and general malaise inducing weather this morning. It is times like these where we thank our lucky stars for Google Earth, which has a habit of transporting us to a far away place like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Petit+St.+Vincent+Resort/local/1012">Petit St. Vincent Resort</a>, a island resort in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This maritime, on the edge of kitsch, resort was conceived by Hazen K. Richardson. As we understand it, Hazen was living in New England and made a habit of escaping to the Caribbean every winter. He made a living sailing blue blooded rich dudes around the Windward Islands on his boat during the