By: Staff Writer
Sugar City, St. Kitts is listed as one of the new hot spots for the jet-setting and super yachting Caribbean crowd— that feature mega-marinas and plush hotels. St. Kitts according to an article penned on Robb Report is fast becoming one of the high-rolling heavyweights.
According to Robb Report, the recent buzz around St. Kitts may seem like an overnight sensation, but it has actually been a decade-long obsession for Charles “Buddy” Darby III.
The developer and superyacht fanatic first docked at the West Indies island in 2008 on his 154-foot S/Y Andromeda La Dea, and ever since he’s been feverishly masterminding Christophe Harbour, the 2,500-acre village that is turning this once lazy isle into the Caribbean’s next big yachting destination. The marina’s 24 berths can accommodate superyachts up
to 300 feet long, while on land the development is home to a collection of multimillion-dollar homes and sites that stretch across six beaches.
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The construction of a road during the 1990’s spurred the Christophe Harbour Development and a few years later, Park Hyatt followed.
Today, tourists to St. Kitts may enjoy fine dining, a high end-shopping experience, a wider selection of hotel choices and the Miraval Spa at Park Hyatt.
As stated by Robb Report:
There’s also high-end shopping and dining
and a Park Hyatt resort with a Miraval spa. And so far, it looks like Darby’s big dream is catching on: Yachting traffic to the island has increased every year for the last five years, and some of the world’s most impressive floating castles—including American billionaire Leslie Wexner’s 316-foot M/Y Limitless and Darby’s newest water toy, a custom-built Perini Navi called Andromeda Dea—have already been spotted on the budding St. Kitts scene.
Grenada and Canouan are the other two islands listed as high-rolling heavyweights that will be the next Billionaires Playground.
