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Some facing the pool, some looking out at the har-
bor, others have private decks. Add to that a 42-slip
marina, and it makes operating this hotel more like a
76-room resort.
Most guests come from Florida. As Sarah Ann ex-
plains it, “They treat the Abacos like Martha’s Vine-
yard, coming over on weekend trips, and a few weeks
at a time for holiday vacations. Green Turtle Cay is on
the same latitude line as Palm Beach, but
has a more temperate climate; 10 degrees
warmer in winter, 10 degrees cooler in
summer. It’s a one-hour flight from Flori-
da, but you feel like you went somewhere
completely exotic.”
The Green Turtle Club has 44 year-
round employees; 50 percent of them
GREEN TURTLE CLUB RESORT & MARINA
The Green Turtle Club has 44 year-
round employees; 50 percent of
them live on the property. The re-
sort closes from the end of August
through the end of October every
year. First, because it’s hurricane
season. Second, because extensive
maintenance repairs are done during
that time to keep the property at
its best. It also gives employees a
well-deserved vacation after 10
months of hard work.
live on the
property.
The resort
closes from
the end of
August through
the end of Oc-
tober every year.
First, because it’s
hurricane season. Second, because
extensive maintenance repairs are done during
that time to keep the property at its best. It also
gives employees a well-deserved vacation after
10 months of hard work.
Sarah Ann focuses her marketing efforts on
promoting Green Turtle Cay, itself, as a desti-
nation: “Because even if they’re staying in the
houses or another resort on the island, they’re
going to be patronizing us.We’re a small resort, so
when we fill the whole island, everybody succeeds.
I’m competing with other islands throughout the
Bahamas and the Abacos; trying to educate my
customers staying on the mainland to take that
extra taxi or ferry ride over here because we have
more to offer than the bigger islands.We’re more
secluded, elite, luxurious–but it takes some hand
holding to get them here.”
The other resort on the island is Bluff House,
located across the harbor from the Green Tur-
tle Club. “It’s another wonderful offering on the