October 17th, 2018
For all of you who knew and loved the “Old” Long Bay Resort and especially for those that own villas at Long Bay there is finally some good news. I recently received information from a reliable source familiar with the matter that Long Bay was sold in September to yet undisclosed buyer in California.
Plans are to restore the resort to its former glory including the main reception areas, conference rooms, shops and the wonderful swimming pool. The resort will have the same basic format, but cater to a more high end clientele. Apparently, the new owners are focusing on refurbishing the area away from the beach first. There is no information yet on the beachfront units.
Recently, activity has been spotted in Long Bay as they have already begun to clean up the resort. At this point, however, no timeline has been given for the rebuild.
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter