T+L’s Lodge Overview of The Strand on Turks and Caicos

Throughout an East Coast winter, there isn’t a higher feeling of aid than the one which comes with boarding a flight from New York’s JFK to Turks and Caicos. This previous winter, impressed by Journey + Leisure‘s Greatest Locations to Go, which named Turks and Caicos a must-visit vacation spot of 2025, my husband, nine-month-old son, and I escaped to the islands. We stayed at The Strand, a brand new resort with standalone seashore homes, hidden on Cooper Jack Bay on the south coast of Providenciales. Set on pristine white sand, the resort is an angular sandcastle of unpolluted traces, coral surfaces, and glittering non-public swimming pools that mirror the island’s milky blue surrounds.

The sun-washed coral-stone partitions and flooring of The Strand, which opened in late 2024 and will probably be totally full by 2027, made it extremely straightforward to modify gears from snow boots to sun shades. The fashionable sandcastle is studded with coloration, beginning with a vibrant foyer mural (above) by native artist Bradley Theodore, and a rainbow of shiny sundresses and jewellery within the resort store. The kaleidoscope of coloration adopted us to the restaurant, the place there was a scotch bonnet on prime of my margarita and inexperienced tobiko atop an amuse-bouche of native lobster.

Our days at The Strand have been equally peaceable whether or not spent on our non-public pool deck or down on the resort’s non-public seashore. There’ll by no means be one other resort that shares this strip of sand with The Strand, which units this resort aside from most others on the island—lots of which share the densely developed Grace Bay. Meals at on-site DelMar restaurant have been each polished and informal, and any meal delivered to our room was simply as elegant; suite kitchens are totally stocked with every thing from dinnerware to wine fridges. And we didn’t even ask for the full-size crib or diaper pail that have been already ready in our room—clear indicators of the eye to element that we seen all through our keep.

Right here, my full overview of The Strand on Turks and Caicos.

The Rooms

Lodging at The Strand vary from one-bedroom suites with balconies to six-bedroom residences with direct entry to the non-public seashore. Throughout all choices, one function is commonplace: each room at The Strand options the ocean view as its centerpiece. “The distinctive factor about our resort is that each one the rooms are ocean entrance. We aren’t seeing a partial ocean view. You’re simply…there,” Jenny Hannenberg-Feig, the hospitality supervisor at The Strand, informed me after I toured the resort.

Suites are every a part of bigger connected “villas”—every villa might be break up into a number of suites for households (or separate events) as wanted. Each ground-floor suite options its personal non-public plunge pool with a coated terrace—some with eating tables, others with soaking tubs and televisions. We stayed in a ground-floor suite and have been glad to have a eating desk and sitting space on our balcony; whereas stunning, a bath would have been much less helpful for our household. Second flooring suites function ocean-front balconies, and a few embody rooftop terraces full with outside kitchens.

Our suite had a full kitchen, together with a wine fridge, ice machine, Nespresso espresso maker, and cupboards stocked with every thing from flatware to Champagne flutes, all of which we used. We cherished opening the sliding doorways to our sitting space to create an indoor-outdoor lounge, particularly within the night after dinner when dwell music from the bar beneath allowed my husband and I to really feel like we have been out for the evening, even once we needed to be residence to place our child to mattress.

Bedrooms are spacious (ours was sufficiently big to accommodate a full-size toddler crib with out inhibiting our motion) with king-size beds made with Frette linens, massive closets, and en-suite bogs with double sinks and rain showers. Floor-floor bedrooms have sliding doorways onto every suite’s outside terrace.

I additionally toured the Strand’s five-bedroom residences, that are non-public properties out there for vacationers to lease. Every has a mix of “casita” visitor suites and customizations like outside showers, infinity and plunge swimming pools, workplaces, children’ rooms, firepits, and outside kitchens.

Meals and Drink

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served at The Strand’s DelMar restaurant, which serves because the social middle of the resort. Most nights of our keep, the restaurant was busy with each resort friends and out of doors guests, coming from all around the island to take a look at the newcomer to the Providenciales restaurant scene. We sat for leisurely meals at DelMar, typically on the beachfront tables below the evening sky, and cherished the tuna and hamachi crudos, topped with delicate garnishes. We went out on the resort’s Boston Whaler sooner or later and obtained to look at because the captain hauled within the resort’s catch of the day (purple snapper for many of our keep). There was dwell music on the restaurant throughout a number of nights of our keep; friends have been commonly abandoning their tables to bounce below the celebs.

We ate breakfasts each on the DelMar and in our room and lunches of tacos, salads, and membership sandwiches every day below our umbrella on the pool.

Actions and Experiences

The Strand provides a full menu of actions and experiences that may be booked with a pill with out even leaving your room. Most actions happen with third-party tour operators—fishing, snorkeling, diving, and extra can all be organized as day journeys. Tennis and pickleball courts are full and open for play on the resort, and paddleboards and kayaks can be found to be used on the seashore. A spa and youngsters’ membership are nonetheless below building, as is a big marina that can supply boaters from throughout the area the chance to dock for lunch and dinner on the DelMar—The Strand would be the first resort to supply this functionality on Providenciales.

Accessibility and Sustainability

Seventy % of The Strand’s vitality comes from solar energy, which is sadly unusual on Turks and Caicos. All the resort’s light-colored finishes and shade-providing picket pergolas act collectively to maintain issues cool. The property is working in partnership with Colorado-based Butterfly Pavillion to guard the habitat for pollinators. And the land to the west and north of the resort are a part of a chosen nature reserve which is able to by no means be developed. Throughout my keep, I did not discover many accessibility options; the restaurant and pool are each on the backside of a number of flights of stairs.

Location

The Strand’s south coast location is both a promoting level or a disadvantage, relying on the type of trip you are planning. The resort won’t ever share its non-public seashore with one other resort, which makes it good for these searching for privateness on their trip. However the buying and eating alternatives of the Grace Bay strip are a 15-minute drive from the resort. This implies friends are much less prone to depart for a fast espresso or lunch—any journey to city will probably be much less spontaneous than at some resorts in strolling distance from Grace Bay Street. That mentioned, renting a automobile was straightforward on Providenciales. We rented a Jeep for sooner or later throughout our journey, which was dropped off and picked up on the resort. The island just isn’t massive, the resort is positioned roughly within the middle of its southern coast, and we have been simply in a position to discover the whole island of Providenciales from east to west in sooner or later.

Methods to Get the Most Worth Out of Your Keep

The Strand is a member of the Main Resorts of the World group, the place you may earn loyalty factors and use them to avoid wasting on stays throughout the globe. Reserving The Strand on the Main Resorts of the World platform can get you a versatile cancellation coverage and charges that embody each day breakfast.