The St. Regis Bermuda

At St Catherine’s Beach on the northeastern tip of Bermuda’s main island, The St Regis Bermuda Resort occupies a position on one of the island’s most historically significant stretches of coastline — the beach below the fort where Bermuda’s first settlers established their colony in 1609 — whose conversion into a luxury resort has been managed with reference to the heritage landscape’s importance while providing the beach and marine amenity expected of a five-star Caribbean resort. The 120 rooms and suites are designed with a palette that draws on Bermuda’s own colour traditions — the pink sand, the pastel limestone, and the deep blue of the Atlantic’s clarity in this latitude — and the beach and reef access give the resort the quality of marine environment that distinguishes Bermuda from the tropical Caribbean destinations it competes with for the luxury travel market. The Butler service programme’s application to a Bermuda context adds the island’s specific social rituals — the rum swizzle, the fish chowder, the Gosling’s Black Seal programme — to the St Regis’s international service language.

The restaurant programme spans Marée by Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s contemporary Atlantic cuisine, which draws on the Bermudian culinary tradition — the rockfish, the wahoo, the Bermuda onion soup, and the cassava pie of the island’s holiday cooking — alongside the international fine dining menu appropriate to a hotel of this ambition. The spa’s programme uses marine mineral and botanical preparations specific to the North Atlantic’s distinctive ecosystem. Golf on the adjacent St George’s Golf Club, snorkelling in the underwater caves and shipwrecks of the Great Sound, and the UNESCO-listed Town of St George’s historic architecture are among the experiences most characteristic of the northeastern Bermuda position.

The St Regis Bermuda’s relationship with the island’s environmental management includes participation in the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo’s coral reef monitoring programme and support for the Bermuda Department of Conservation Services’ hawksbill turtle protection work on the hotel’s stretch of St Catherine’s Beach.