Silversands Grenada

Beautiful Hotel with well appointed rooms. well trained attentive staff. Great food. Transport provided to other local restaurants- although none of them were as good as the food in the hotel - but we felt we should try! Pool and Spa First Class. Peaceful Retreat - probably not suitable for children. We will definitely return.

Great location - a close drive or walk to many things to do, see, eat, and drink. The beach is beautiful and the pool is fabulous - longest in the Caribbean and pristine/clean. The grounds are immaculate and the staff/service are outstanding. The spa is also a standout.

Outstanding resort with a real wow factor on arrival. The hotel is beautiful and everything has been thought through meticulously. It feels luxurious but the staff make this resort. Friendly and willing to engage on all levels. Particular thanks to Princess, Leanne and Ronaldo, although it seems slightly unfair as every single member of staff go above and beyond! The vibe is just right and food especially breakfast was top notch. Denis the General Manger and Laurence the hotel manager made our stay feel special especially as my husband and I were both celebrating our birthdays. Our room was decorated and birthday cake made plus staff singing to us. Can’t recommend this highly enough, it exceeded all our expectations

We stayed at the Silversands Grenada for 5 nights and had a fantastic time. It was the best Caribbean experience ever. This property is exquisite, well maintained, and secluded while boasting a beautiful private beach with fantastic sunset view, and close vicinity to its local shopping mall and restaurants. The staff could not have been nicer- right down to the wait staff, maintenance people and pool staff. They were phenomenal, very friendly, attentive, made us feel at home and were always available to answer our questions. Also, I want to recognize Nandini Nootoo, A director of Front of house. She completed our fantastic vacation! Very thoughtful Thank You again. The room was clean, spacious and modern with a fantastic ocean view. We loved opening the panoramic glass doors to see the beautiful turquoise water and listen to the waves everyday. It was a perfect destination for family vacation! The beach and pool were beautiful. Small comp drinks and snacks/fruit given out at the beach were nice touch. Both my wife and my teenage daughter is very picky and selective eater while myself is food/travel lover. Two on site restaurants were great(The Grenadian Grill and Asiatique). The sauces on Lobster Linguine, Penne, and Spaghetti were spot on! In fact, they were tastier than ones that I had in Milan, Italy. Live Jazz at The Grenadian Grill was a huge PLUS. Well done !! Kudo to a chef at Asiatique as well!! Pad Thai kung along with Stir fried rice were very tasty.

We had a generally very nice experience at the Silver Sands. It wasn’t perfect, but unless you are paying zero attention and have no expectations, there’s no such thing as perfect. The property itself is lovely for the most part. Very modern. It’s a nice manageable size. It feels at once spacious and intimate. The developers did their best to create the illusion of a resort isolated from the outside world. More on that later. Across the board, the staff are friendly, outgoing, and hard-working. There were some occasional missteps in service here and there, and some operational shortcomings, but we have found that this is generally the case at resorts across the entire Caribbean at every price point. Silver Sands is a relatively young resort, and they are still finding their way in some areas, but they are already largely ahead of the curve. Unlike so many other places we’ve stayed, we encountered no one with an attitude or anyone who didn’t seem to like or want to do their job. The concierge team was particularly on their game. We are not super high maintenance people, but every request we made was met quickly and efficiently. And unlike other resorts, we never overheard any other guests complaining about anything having to do with the concierge team. Based on earlier reviews, the food and beverage team has upped their game considerably. We had consistently tasty food, served by friendly, knowledgeable staff in a mostly timely manner. There were a couple of speed bumps here, but overall we were quite happy with the restaurant and bar service, despite the high prices of some things. We have spent more money at other resorts for much less in terms of quality and service. While there were some small gaps in housekeeping’s consistency, they were more a source of confusion than anything else. The room was always kept very clean, if somewhat unevenly restocked here and there. The spa was nice enough, and the treatments were competent, but it was far from our favorite Caribbean spa experience. It felt a bit understaffed, particularly in the maintenance department. There were some stained towels and random half finished drinks lying about in the changing areas, and one worker was mopping the floor directly in front of us while we were trying to relax after our treatments. The shortcomings in the food/beverage, housekeeping, and spa areas are a fairly easy fix with continued training. But there are some things about the Silver Sands which cannot be fixed. In 14 years of Caribbean travel, we have never stayed at a luxury resort that was so closely situated to a fairly loud and busy road, with so many tightly packed neighboring homes and businesses. St. George’s is a densely populated high traffic area of Grenada, and Silver Sands has insinuated itself in the thick of it. Throughout our stay, we were reminded of this, via barking dogs, chickens, car horns, sirens, loud music from passing cars and/or bars down the beach, etc. We still had a relaxing time in general, but the property is simply not remote or isolated in any way. If you can afford one of the 3 or 4 bedroom villas on the beachfront, you may not notice the hustle and bustle of St. George’s as much. But we were in one of the two hotel buildings situated behind the villas. And that was one of the major drawbacks of our stay. We were in building 1, which was the reportedly quieter of the two, based on previous reviews; somewhat further away from the barking dogs in the area. But the downside of being further away from the dogs was that we were directly behind one of the two restaurants. On our first night, we were kept awake by a loud, repetitive mechanical sound coming from the restaurant. We couldn’t figure out what it was, but we called the front desk and the next day the sound was mitigated for the most part. But the constant droning of the restaurant’s refrigeration/air conditioning, and the regular coming and going of staff and small vehicles, bringing supplies, linens, plates, etc. to and from the restaurant was not only visible, but highly audible from our balcony, and inside the room, all day and most of the night, until about midnight, every day. They built a busy restaurant in front of a large portion of their smaller rooms. There’s no getting around that. It may be a non-issue for some, but it’s worth noting if you are looking for quiet serenity. Again, this wasn’t a complete deal breaker for us, but it took a bite out out of the relaxation factor. The beach was very close, relatively speaking, to our room, but we couldn’t hear the ocean at all over the sounds of the constant industry directly below us. Unfortunately, we were also not able to find much serenity at the beach itself as often as we would have liked. It’s quite a small portion of beach, which has the benefit of being easy to get to and from on the property, but carries a distinct disadvantage when it comes to having to listen to your neighbors’ constant talking or smelling their cigarettes. If you are used to crowded busy resorts with beach chairs a couple of feet apart from each other, you may not have any issues with this. But we have stayed in places where your nearest neighbor is several yards away and you are able to enjoy the natural beauty of a quiet beach in peace. The close nature of the beach chairs also made it difficult to stay in the shade of the smallish umbrellas. As the sun shifted, we kept having to move our chairs and inch closer and closer to our neighbors to avoid getting sunburned. There were also not enough umbrellas for all the chairs, and I witnessed a little bit of drama regarding that. Service at the beach, in terms of getting towels and drinks was mostly very good. There were some days when we had to chase people down for something, but overall I would say the beach service is fine. The staff is as friendly, hard working, and helpful on the beach as they are everywhere else on the resort. On a positive note at the beach; we were regularly treated with small gratis refreshments and snacks on a regular basis…much more frequently than anywhere else we’ve stayed. As a middle-aged couple seeking a peaceful beach retreat, we were largely satisfied for 6 of our 7 nights. People were mostly chill. The pool was populated by the occasional swimmer(s) looking to cool off or take a few laps. The cabanas lining the pool were sparsely populated with people doing low-key things like napping or reading. We were lulled into thinking this must be an adults-only resort. But on our last day, we were starkly reminded that it is not an adults-only resort. A family with three young boys arrived and promptly turned the elegant infinity pool into a football field. There was much yelling and screaming. It completely changed the vibe of the pool area, and the resort itself. For our last day and a half, they dominated the pool and could be heard carelessly carrying on, their cacophony reverberating throughout the resort, audible even in our room with the windows closed and earplugs in place. (I am constantly disappointed and embarrassed by my fellow Americans’ inability to read the room.) Silver Sands seems perfectly poised to be an adults-only resort. I strongly feel this could give them an edge over the other child-friendly chain hotels populating the island. We feel very lucky to have spent the majority of our time at the resort in a relatively calm child-free environment. But the arrival of that one family on our last day was a reality check, and it will definitely impact our decision to return. Silver Sands is a bit of an anomaly. It clearly strives to be a sophisticated five star property with five star service, but this seems to be an ambitious goal, in the face of being situated directly on top of a neighborhood of working local Grenadians, with copious chickens and dogs, and a smallish crowded beach, If you are staying in the rarified air of the beachfront villas, you could very well escape the misgivings we had with the resort. But if you are staying in the hotel buildings, be prepared for a somewhat variable, sometimes frustrating, and slightly cramped experience that raises some existential questions about what a five star resort is doing in the middle of all of this.