The Best Hotels Near Salterra, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Turks & Caicos, by the Record
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Stone, driftwood, and pale blues echo the island's old salt-harvesting trade at this resort on the quiet, largely undeveloped shores of South Caicos. Rooms are minimal and sun-drenched, with deep-soaking tubs and terraces angled at the sunset. The spa runs salt-inspired treatments above the sea, and the food truck by the pool handles frozen cocktails without any ceremony. The whole place moves at an unhurried pace that South Caicos seems to enforce regardless.
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A rum punch and a chilled scented towel greet you at check-in, which sets the tone pretty efficiently. Seven Stars is a beachfront resort sitting on Grace Bay's white sand, Forbes Four Star, and built around the idea that you should never have to stand up if you don't feel like it, including at the beach, where waiters come to you. There are activities if restlessness strikes, but the default mode is horizontal.
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A private island resort on a 1,000-acre cay in the Turks and Caicos, Parrot Cay is the kind of place people go specifically to be unreachable. The COMO Shambala spa runs Eastern-inspired therapies and yoga camps, the beaches are white and uncrowded, and the villas are buried deep enough in tropical foliage that even the famous can pretend they don't exist for a week.
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A private island barely two miles long, with twelve rooms and suites sitting between impossible turquoise water and 800 acres of wild nature. No TVs, no motorized water sports, a maximum of around thirty guests, and an all-inclusive plan that removes every decision except which stretch of beach to face. Snorkeling, open-air spa treatments, a tiki bar, and a chef-led dining room cover the rest. The word "idyllic" keeps showing up in descriptions, apparently for lack of a better one.