Be the Caribbean Luxury Resort you will choose this year

It's apparently not enough to be an exclusive resort on St Lucia. Many glitzy glamorous hotels and resorts now make claim to be the premier luxury resort in St Lucia. One such resort is The Landings A Rock Resort.

The big question therefore has to be does it have a fair claim to this position, or how good a resort is it for you to choose it for your vacation this year.

Firstly The Landings A Rock Resort has 62 rooms, which come as one, two, or three bedroom suites, with full kitchens, state of the art amenities, a private terraces. That is the basic fact about your accommodation, but the scale of the accommodation and the sheer quality of the appliances certainly does justice to the claim of being a top luxury resort in St Lucia.

If you are travelling en famille, and you have a couple of small children in tow, then the one bedroomed suite will be easily big enough. The kitchen well enough equipped to be able to stay in and cook successfully and without any stress. You may not realise that the suites are privately owned so if you want to cook and do laundry then you will need kitchen consumeables.

The two bedroom suites are absolutely enormous, and have two balconies, one overlooking the gardens and the other the beach, the beautiful blue sea, and Pigeon Island, with stunning sunsets to watch as you sip a rum punch.

At this time May 2008, The Landings A Rock Resort is not finished so there is some building work going on, and whilst this doesn't really disturb, it does mean they don't have the kind of shop that would sell suncream or toothpaste, or camera film, or batteries etc., and this means a trip into Rodney Bay. Now The Landings has great drivers, but there is a cost involved here. There would be a lot of sense in hiring a car, and if you are British you should be pleased because they drive on the left hand side of the road in St Lucia.

Another reason to have a car obviously is to see the island, but the fact there is only one restaurant at the resort is a bit limiting at this time, so some exploration to find eating establishments is required.

These two factors at this time probably make the claim that The Landings A Rock Resort is the premier luxury resort in St Lucia a bit fanciful, but this is offset by the quite superbly helpful staff, and the housekeepers are top quality, and if you have stayed in supposedly top exclusive resorts you will know this isn't always the case.

One other small issue is that there is only one pool with two hot tubs, although you couldn't fault it in any way at all, and sunbeds aren't a problem. You can be certain before very long this facility will be increased as it is quite obvious that Rock Resorts intend to live up to their boast as the premiere resort on Antigua.

You will have a great time at The Landings A Rock Resort, and it is already an exclusive hotel, perhaps not quite yet a top Caribbean Luxury Resort but that is only a matter of time.