2010 World's Best Diving & Resorts: Caribbean Club

It starts at the Caribbean Club even before you arrive. You call the concierge and make a list of what you want in your fridge when you arrive. Sparkling water, brie, buffalo wing hot sauce. Doesn't matter. It'll be there waiting in the full-size refrigerator, in the full-size kitchen that opens to the living room that looks out over some of Cayman's most exquisite views of Seven Mile Beach. That's just the appetizer. When you arrive, if you want, you can get a personal chef to cook the food in your fridge. Or you can slip down the elevator and enjoy a world-class repast at the on-site Italian Ristorante Luca, with one of the best wine cellars on the island.
Define the way you want to travel when you go to Grand Cayman, and this is what you get from Caribbean Club. It's a home away from home or a fully catered luxe getaway complete with cook, butler and dog-walker.
Inside each of the seven floorplans you'll find an understated elegance with a distinctive tropical ambiance. Each unit, while unique, offers similar design elements right down to the flatware.
Located on one of the widest swaths of soft white sand on the island, the Caribbean Club will wrap you in its easy, luxurious ambience as soon as you arrive. You can be on the water, strolling on the sand in the warm, tropical heat or lazing by the pool within minutes of passing through customs. Or, the staff will arrange for access to the best of Cayman's incredible dive offerings via top-notch local dive operators that will guide guests through the vast undersea offerings that Grand Cayman has been famous for, for more than 50 years. No journey to this part of the world would be complete without logging time on such Seven Mile Beach dive site icons as Bonnie's Arch, Big Tunnel, or Ghost Mountain. Of course, sites farther afield are no problem, so you may as well add the North Wall, East End and time with the world-famous southern stingrays at Sandbar to your must-do list.
If you're accustomed to the best of everything world-class diving, dining, and especially accommodations then the Caribbean Club will become your Cayman getaway of choice.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Several floor plans, from villas with wraparound porches to tower condos with sweeping views, all with an understated elegance, from the flatware to basic design concepts
AMENITIES: Fitness center with a full selection of aerobic equipment and weights (the concierge can arrange for a personal trainer); pool; oceanfront cabanas
CONTACT INFORMATION: Toll-free: 800-941-1126; Website: caribclub.com; E-mail: [email protected]