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Carlisle Bay, Antigua

An award-winning British hotelier creates his brand of luxury retreat in the Caribbean and hopes that, in the process, he will make some waves.

By Pamela Fiori
Eighty-eight rooms and suites sprawl along the protected and pristine beachfront of Carlisle Bay, on the southern coast of Antigua, in the West Indies. In the background: a tropical rain forest covering 400 acres.Owner Gordon Campbell Gray leans against one of the massive decorative tree trunks in the hotel's lobby.Vases containing artfully arranged anthurium are some of the few bursts of bright color in the lobby's otherwise subdued palette.Date palms provide a welcome escape from the Caribbean sun.Or you can simply walk a few paces, retreat to your room, turn on the AC and have a cup of herbal tea.East is the Carlisle Bay's Asian-influenced restaurant.Chocolate molten-lava cakeYellowfin-tuna carpaccioAntiguan organic black pineapple with mango sorbetThe lounge chairs around the edge of the pool allow overheated toes to cool offSeven-year-old Oona McEvoy sips a strawberry smoothie, a specialty of the house.Carlisle Bay's neon New Wave library is as far a cry from an English gentleman's club as can be.
Eighty-eight rooms and suites sprawl along the protected and pristine beachfront of Carlisle Bay, on the southern coast of Antigua, in the West Indies. In the background: a tropical rain forest covering 400 acres.
PHOTO: Marua McEvoy Owner Gordon Campbell Gray leans against one of the massive decorative tree trunks in the hotel's lobby.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Vases containing artfully arranged anthurium are some of the few bursts of bright color in the lobby's otherwise subdued palette.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Date palms provide a welcome escape from the Caribbean sun.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Or you can simply walk a few paces, retreat to your room, turn on the AC and have a cup of herbal tea.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy East is the Carlisle Bay's Asian-influenced restaurant.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Chocolate molten-lava cake
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Yellowfin-tuna carpaccio
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Antiguan organic black pineapple with mango sorbet
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy The lounge chairs around the edge of the pool allow overheated toes to cool off
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Seven-year-old Oona McEvoy sips a strawberry smoothie, a specialty of the house.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoy Carlisle Bay's neon New Wave library is as far a cry from an English gentleman's club as can be.
PHOTO: Maura McEvoyq
  
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