Storm-Damaged Caribbean Resorts Make a Comeback for High Season

On Tortola, the popular Sugar Mill resort, set on a former sugar plantation, was extensively damaged. It reopens this month with 24 refurbished rooms and two restaurants, including its fine-dining restaurant set inside a 400-year-old former sugar boiling house (rooms from $295).

Partially reopened in spring, Scrub Island Resort, Spa Marina, which solely occupies 230-acre Scrub Island, expects to have all 52 guest rooms and suites reopened by the end of December (rooms from $359). The spa added a beachfront treatment cabana.

On Virgin Gorda, Oil Nut Bay reopened last December and by the end of this year plans to open four new one-bedroom villas, a water-sports center offering guided snorkeling trips and sailing lessons, a two-treatment-room spa and a new marina village with a restaurant and shops (rooms from $550).

Dominica

Among the handful of renewed hotels on Dominica, the secluded Secret Bay is reopening this month with six restored villas, each with a plunge pool (from $705). The property’s first restaurant, Zing Zing, will also open along with a newly built yoga pavilion.

On the island’s east coast, Citrus Creek Plantation is expected to resume operations in early 2019 with nine restored cottages on 20 acres (from $115). Crops were replanted in the resort garden that grows much of the produce served at the riverside restaurant.

In the capital of Roseau, the Fort Young Hotel currently has more than half of its 72 rooms as well as a new poolside bar open, with plans to complete its renovation in February (from $209).