Cap Juluca, A Belmond Hotel
A hundred and seventy-nine acres of land and salt pond, strung along one crescent of Anguillan sand.
Cap Juluca holds a hundred and seventy-nine acres on the southwest coast of Anguilla, on Maundays Bay, looking across six miles of water to the mountains of Saint Martin. The figure needs a qualification the brochures never give it: the holding is published as land and inland waters together, and a real share of those acres is salt pond rather than ground anyone walks on. What the estate actually occupies is a long thin strip between the ponds and the sea, along which the buildings are strung in a single line, so the plan is linear where most estates of this acreage are compact.
Oscar Farmer, a Californian architect, designed the resort in white stucco with domes, arches and towers, and it opened in 1988. Hurricane Irma wrecked it in 2017; Belmond took over and reopened it after a renovation reported at a hundred and twenty-one million dollars. Accommodation is published at a hundred and eight and at a hundred and thirteen rooms, suites and villas, all of them on the water side with direct beach access. Guests move by golf cart or bicycle along the line. The house closes in September and October.
Acreage that includes water. A hundred and seventy-nine acres of land and pond is not a hundred and seventy-nine acres of estate. The register carries the published figure and the qualification with it.
A line, not a compound. Everything here faces one bay from one strip. There is no interior to retreat into, which is the trade Cap Juluca made for putting every room on the sand.
Who it is not for
Cap Juluca is wrong for travellers who want grounds to wander: the estate is a strip and the walk is along it rather than into it. It is wrong for anyone who expects the beach to be the resort's own, since Anguilla's shoreline is not privately held and the sand is used by others. It is wrong for guests travelling in September or October, when the house closes. For a Caribbean estate with land behind it, Little Dix Bay holds five hundred acres on Virgin Gorda.
Sources
- Belmond and trade material - resort of a hundred and seventy-nine acres of land and inland waters on Maundays Bay, southwest Anguilla; opened 1988 to a design by the Californian architect Oscar Farmer in Greco-Moorish stucco
- Independent coverage - reopened under Belmond after Hurricane Irma following a renovation reported at a hundred and twenty-one million dollars; the house closes in September and October
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- accommodation is published as a hundred and eight and as a hundred and thirteen; the beach is described as a mile long and as two miles.
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