Hamilton Holiday Houses

We have had the most marvelous relaxing holiday at in your delightful villa at Two Bays and to thank you for all the help you have given us. Our 2 weeks on Grenada has been truly unforgettable. It is such a beautiful and relatively unspoilt island. Iris and Bruno are so warm and friendly and deserve every success at Cabier.
We have always come to the end of holidays with a feeling that it would be quite nice to get home - not this time! I'm afraid we were so bewitched that we were tempted to 'squat'! We long to return and will certainly recommend Two Bays to our friends. W & J M, Nov 2010

Availabilty

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Booking information and prices

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Regular weekly flights by British Airways, Virgin and Monarch go to Grenada. Monarch Premium is particularly good value with the cost of flights ranging from £450 to £650/700 return depending on the time of year or whether taking Premium Class.

We offer a range of packages in conjunction with Cabier Ocean Lodge that can either be just the Villa or Studio rental through various meal plans, including the top one which includes breakfast and dinner with a rum punch or cocktail each and a bottle of wine to share over dinner. What is more you can change your plan around when you are there if you feel like a change.

Fancy a 4 night cruise on a yacht with a crew up through the beautiful Grenadines as part of your Cabier two week package? Then just ask for details and prices to add this into your holiday at Two Bays and Cabier.

Two Bays Villa and Studios Prices Room Rates & Meal Plans for 2011 - 2013

Prices include daily maid service to the room, beach and bath towels

NB: Prices may be subject to change. UK equivalents calculated at £1 = UDS $ 1.50

Air conditioning, if needed, is available at a small supplement of USD $5 per night

Although your stay will be arranged via us, your contract will be with Cabier Ocean Lodge and your payment will be made direct to them either by electronic transfer or by credit card in advance of your stay. Payments by credit card will be subject to a 2% additional charge.

A non-refundable 30% deposit is required on booking with the balance of 70% payable 45 days in advance of arrival. All bookings made within 45 days of arrival are paid in full.

If you are interested in other accommodation at Cabier Ocean Lodge we can assist you with information and your booking. The lodge is closed during the brief stormy season from end of August through September.

Contact

For more information please contact Nick Hamilton on +44 (0) 207 404 7281 or +44 (0) 7831 110229 or .

There is more information on the Cabier website at   www.cabier.com   but please contact Nick for all enquiries about staying at Two Bays and Cabier Ocean Lodge. Your holiday booking will be direct with Cabier Ocean Lodge.

Getting Out and About

For exploring the island there is local jeep hire delivered to Cabier for a minimum of 3 days hire at around £30 (USD $50) per day and Bruno runs individual island tours from Cabier. Local minibuses to Grenville and St George's are frequent and cheap, as are taxis.

Living Costs

So having – we hope – seriously aroused your interest about going to Two Bays and Cabier, we realise what can put people off going independently to the Caribbean is a concern about the cost of living when you are there. We thought the only way to address this concern is by example. The advantage of Two Bays is that you can dip in and out of self catering whenever you want. But – ok so you do not want to cook when you are on holiday - what will it cost to eat and drink for a week at Cabier’s bar and restaurant?

Self catering is easy at Two Bays as in all our other holiday houses. The villa and the studios are fully equipped to be a home from home, right down to the salad spinner and garlic crusher. As well as having a gas stove, microwave and all the other kitchen equipment you might possibly need to properly self cater, you always have the option to eat at Cabier Ocean Lodge restaurant on the terrace overlooking the sea.

Cabier Self Catering

Whilst most people who have self catered on holiday before know roughly how much it costs to self cater in the UK, France or Italy, it can be a big unknown and a worry about how much it costs to live in the Caribbean totally or partially self catering if you have not done it before.

The following, from our recent experience, might help you assess how much it might cost. During a recent two week stay (April 2010), we self catered and ate certain meals at Cabier Ocean Lodge as a matter of choice, although we could easily have self catered all of the holiday. Currency rates are converted roughly at USD $1.50 =£1 and ECD $4 =£1.

Self Catering Information

Grenville, our biggest local town, is 20 minutes away by car and has several supermarkets (more local) and a vibrant fruit/veg/fish and meat market. If you are not hiring a vehicle then Bruno the chef at the Lodge goes in every other day to buy fresh produce for the restaurant and will take you there. There is also a regular minibus service from Crochu village.

We self catered lunch each day preparing a mixture of things from vegetables, bought from the ladies in Grenville market, through to tuna salad, bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado salads and chicken. There is plenty to buy either frozen (imported) or local – chicken/pork/goat/beef from supermarkets or in the market. Chicken is obviously plentiful and is not expensive.

Vegetables are whatever is in season and there are usually aubergine /peppers/lettuce/ tomatoes/avocado/sweet potato/beetroot/spring onions/onions/herbs as well as more local vegetables such as breadfruit, plantains etc – all available from a ladies with market stalls at around $ECD 4 (£1 stg) a pound. Fruit is plentiful: Mangoes, oranges, bananas, paw paw, passion fruit, papaya and pineapples are in season several times a year, often sold from roadside stalls in villages and cost around ECD$5 (£1.25) for a number of each.

Grenville also has a fish market but the fishermen from our local village have various fish to sell and buying direct from them is not expensive. Fish will have been caught that morning. Expect to pay ECD $12/$20 for a fish that would feed 4 to 6 persons. Wine works out at around £5 to £10 a bottle depending on variety and country. Carib beer is cheap at around ECD $2 a bottle, as are soft drinks if bought in the shops.

Grenada has a significant population who are returnees from UK/USA/Canada - so in and around St Georges (45 minutes) there are well stocked shops and supermarkets to serve them and the yachting community with a lot of the goods you would find in the UK or USA. There will occasionally be shortages of certain imported items depending on when the last shipment came in (it is an island) but we have not come across anything that we couldn’t find an alternative for in one shop or another.

Eating and Drinking at Cabier Ocean Lodge

The best way to illustrate the costs of eating at Cabier Ocean Lodge is to review our last bill from the Lodge restaurant for a two week stay at Two Bays in April 2010. The following will help:

The restaurant at Cabier does a good breakfast – coffee/juice/egg/fruit/toast/jam/cheese/tomatoes /salami for $USD 10 – (£6.70). Lovely as it is to eat breakfast on their terrace overlooking the ocean, you can also do breakfast inexpensively yourself sitting enjoying the view from your own veranda.

Dinner averaged USD $25 (£16.70) per head (it did include half a lobster each one night). 8 bottles of wine averaged USD$19 (£12.70) each and 28 cocktails (Iris makes really large ones) averaged USD$ 5.63 (£3.75). Soft drinks were USD $2.25 (£1.50) and Carib beer USD $2.25 (£1.50). You can get a Roti (filled chapatti with either chicken or fish curry) with salad for lunch at USD$5.87 (£3.90).

We hope that helps to gauge the costs of Caribbean self catering and eating out locally for your holiday budgeting. As you can see costs at the restaurant are actually cheaper than in a lot of provincial areas in France, and self catering is not a problem as buying the ingredients for a good meal is cheaper than the restaurant. If you should have any specific queries about self catering at Two Bays and eating at Cabier Ocean Lodge then please do email us.