The Grace Bay Club at Providenciales on Turks and Caicos isn't scrimping on things: they even have a hotel school set up for their employees to learn the skills of the trade. Since tourism is the fastest growing industry on the island, Grace Bay takes the view that to get good staff, it should be giving them extensive training themselves, and that seems to be helping.

Recent guests give plenty of compliments to the staff, with the only complaint being that they move a bit more slowly than some people might be used to--but that's the whole point of being away from the hustle and bustle of normal life.]]> amandak 2008-02-12T09:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/12/4312/7934 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/ConchShell.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>If you're an expert on spa treatments and fantastic exfoliators--or if you just feel like you want to spoil yourself--the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Regent+Palms/ian/228059"><b>Regent Palms Turks and Caicos</b></a> think they have something special for you. They've just opened their new Regent Spa and are featuring a special Mother of Pearl Body Exfoliation treatment. Come on, you want it; you just didn't know until now.</p><p>Apparently the conch shell is the number one export of Turks and Caicos, and the Regent Palms is taking advantage of that by tying the conch shell into this new spa treatment. The exfoliation treatment uses a blend of hand-crushed, queen conch shells to scrub off all that dead skin. We presume they add a few amandak 2007-12-12T11:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/10/14357/9529 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/somerset_croquet.png" class="imgborder"/><p>A Turks &amp; Caicos resort is about to bring the heat with the extreme sport that will knock you out while at the same time giving you the most intense rush you have ever experienced...eXtreme Croquet. Yes, you read us right, croquet.<p><a href="http://www.thesomerset.com/"><b>The Somerset on Grace Bay,</b></a> a luxury beachfront resort, is bringing their eXtreme croquet to guests in March. What's involved?<blockquote><p> "Somerset eXtreme Croquet" is played on a six-wicket beach course, a terrain that poses much more difficulty in navigating than croquet's traditionally tightly manicured lawns. &nbsp;The course is laid out in a figure-eight pattern with all wickets being turn wickets, making the passage space for a ball much smaller than a regular wicket. &nbsp;The basic rules juliana 2007-01-10T16:20:11-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/27/22203/5847 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/thepalms_tc.jpg"><p><b>[Ed. Note: Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/dzot">Dzot</a> was excited for his recent trip to the Turks & Caicos, namely so he could ride around in a Cadillac Escalade imagining himself as a famous gansta-rapper. OK, maybe not. But he was expecting at least a nice whip to pick him up and for his credit card info to remain secure. Here's his take on the place. Enjoy.]</b><p> According to some reviews at <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g147399-d529750-Reviews-The_Palms_Turks_and_Caicos-Providenciales_Turks_and_Caicos-m10559.html">Tripadvisor</a>, visitors to <a href="http://www.thepalmstc.com/"><b>The Palms</b></a> on the island of Providenciales in the British territory of Turks and Caicos are met at the airport by a Cadillac Escalade. &nbsp;Sadly, this was not to be the case for me. &nbsp;Along with a quartet of fellow travelers from the same dzot 2006-07-28T09:38:32-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/