The Best Hotels Near RASA, by the Record
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Palm trees and panoramic Seven Mile Beach views greet you at check-in, setting the tone for this Forbes Five Star resort on Grand Cayman. Kimpton Seafire is the American boutique brand's first overseas foray, and it skews considerably more polished than their usual playbook. Rooms are clean-lined and quietly luxurious, suites face the ocean, and the multiple restaurants punch well above what most Caribbean islands manage.
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Pink seashell tones and locally commissioned artwork set the mood at this resort just steps from Seven Mile Beach, where the interiors borrow from the island's seafaring history without overdoing the nautical kitsch. Most rooms have furnished balconies facing the water, and the pool deck's infinity pools sit flush against the Caribbean horizon. Five restaurants on site, from a rooftop Latin bar to a tasting-menu room, mean you can stay put guiltlessly.
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Seven Mile Beach's most famous 144 acres, this Forbes Five Star, Michelin One Key resort pairs ocean and lagoon views with a lineup that reads like someone was given an unlimited budget and no reason to stop. Eric Ripert's Blue anchors the dining, Jean-Michel Cousteau runs an ocean conservation program, and Greg Norman designed the golf course. When this many big names show up to one address, the Cayman Islands must be doing something right.
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The staff uniforms were custom-designed, and the mood director, Bambi, is apparently impeccably dressed at all times, which tells you everything about the priorities here. This all-suite boutique hotel on Seven Mile Beach swaps the Caribbean's usual conservative luxury for clean-lined modernism, marble baths, Chemex coffee makers, and bright yellow umbrellas on one of the more postcard-ready stretches of sand in the region. It holds a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star.