http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T08:21:36Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Golf%20Carts http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/27/115047/484 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Jalousie_Solar_powered_cart.JPG" class="top"><p> Good news for the environment, <i>going green</i> is still all the rage (or at least promoting green news about your hotel so close to Earth Day is). Still it's enough of a trend for the <a href=""><b>Jalousie Plantation</b></a> resort, located on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, to rock the island's first environmentally-friendly hybrid solar-powered golf cart. Guests can shrink their carbon footprint by riding around the 192-acre property while emitting nothing. <p>On the flipside though, there is also a $100 million renovation of the property shaking up land that includes luxury villa suites now on the market and running for roughly $700K to $2.1 million. To plop down that kind of dough for a vacation home shiralevine 2009-03-27T16:15:03-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/