July 9th, 2020
BVI Traveller has received inside information regarding the status of Long Bay Beach Resort on Tortola’s West End. The resort, which has been under redevelopment, is now planning a soft opening in December of 2020.
Long Bay’s General Manager, Richard Smit, provided the following update. He stated, “We plan to start renovation work on the 15th of July on twenty (20) beach front guest rooms, as well as a beach front restaurant, for a soft opening in December 2020. We look forward to sharing more details as they become available.”
He continued, “Due to carefully evolving plans and considerations around COVID-19, we have been hesitant to release too much information until we were confident we had accurate updates to share with our loyal followers. In the meantime, we have created renderings of the proposed guest rooms and beach front restaurant.” The guest room rendering is shown above and the beach front restaurant rendering is shown below.
Long Bay Beach Resort will also feature a new brand and visual identity, as well as an updated website. BVI Traveller will keep you updated as more information becomes available. This is fantastic news for all those (as well as myself) who know and love the original Long Bay Resort. It will be good to have them back.
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