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

Throughout an East Coast winter, there isn’t a higher feeling of reduction 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 fresh traces, coral surfaces, and glittering personal 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 simple to change 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 vivid 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 had been equally peaceable whether or not spent on our personal pool deck or down on the resort’s personal 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 had been each polished and informal, and any meal delivered to our room was simply as elegant; suite kitchens are totally stocked with the whole lot from dinnerware to wine fridges. And we didn’t even ask for the full-size crib or diaper pail that had been already ready in our room—clear indicators of the eye to element that we seen all through our keep.

Right here, my full assessment 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 personal seashore. Throughout all choices, one characteristic is commonplace: each room at The Strand options the ocean view as its centerpiece. “The distinctive factor about our resort is that every one the rooms are ocean entrance. We’re not seeing a partial ocean view. You’re simply…there,” Jenny Hannenberg-Feig, the hospitality supervisor at The Strand, advised me after I toured the resort.

Suites are every a part of bigger hooked up “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 personal plunge pool with a lined terrace—some with eating tables, others with soaking tubs and televisions. We stayed in a ground-floor suite and had 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 ground suites characteristic ocean-front balconies, and a few embody rooftop terraces full with out of doors kitchens.

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

Bedrooms are spacious (ours was large enough 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 loos with double sinks and rain showers. Floor-floor bedrooms have sliding doorways onto every suite’s out of doors terrace.

I additionally toured the Strand’s five-bedroom residences, that are personal houses accessible for vacationers to lease. Every has a mix of “casita” visitor suites and customizations like out of doors showers, infinity and plunge swimming pools, places of work, youngsters’ rooms, firepits, and out of doors 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 visitors and outdoors guests, coming from everywhere in 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 underneath the evening sky, and beloved the tuna and hamachi crudos, topped with delicate garnishes. We went out on the resort’s Boston Whaler someday and bought to observe because the captain hauled within the resort’s catch of the day (pink snapper for many of our keep). There was reside music on the restaurant throughout a number of nights of our keep; visitors had been often abandoning their tables to bop underneath the celebs.

We ate breakfasts each on the DelMar and in our room and lunches of tacos, salads, and membership sandwiches every day underneath 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 underneath development, as is a big marina that may 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. The entire 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 personal seashore with one other resort, which makes it good for these in search of privateness on their trip. However the purchasing and eating alternatives of the Grace Bay strip are a 15-minute drive from the resort. This implies visitors are much less more likely to go away 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 Highway. That stated, renting a automobile was simple on Providenciales. We rented a Jeep for someday throughout our journey, which was dropped off and picked up on the resort. The island will not be massive, the resort is situated roughly within the middle of its southern coast, and we had been simply capable of discover your complete island of Providenciales from east to west in someday.

Methods to Get the Most Worth Out of Your Keep

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