Turks & Caicos Hotels, Resorts & Villas

We were thrilled today to announce a new strategic partnership with Prime Sports Medicine, a local firm with some big plans and great people – just like us!

TURKS AND CAICOS TARGETS FAST-GROWING HEALTH TRAVEL SEGMENT WITH NEW PARTNERSHIP
Turks & Caicos Reservations partners with Prime Sports Medicine to Develop Medical Tourism to the Destination

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands – May 21, 2013 – Turks and Caicos Reservations – a locally based vacation booking service focused exclusively on the Turks & Caicos Islands, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Prime Sports Medicine to bring more patients seeking overseas surgery to the Turks and Caicos. The partnership will make travel planning to the destination a simple and informative process, opening the door to the high quality, affordable treatments and procedures available from PSM, which are often priced at less than a third of the same procedures in the US.

Having booked thousands of vacations to the destination over the past four years, locally-based Turks and Caicos Reservations is now helping the world-renowned sun, sand and sea destination expand into this new market segment, which the World Travel and Tourism Council estimates has grown to be a $6 trillion business annually.

“We’re thrilled to leverage our years of experience booking vacations to the Turks and Caicos Islands for patients looking for high-quality treatments in a tropical paradise. Whether travelers are looking for a small inn, full-service beachfront resort, or luxury villa experience for their pre- or post-surgical care, we’ll have them covered, and can offer appropriately-based rejuvenation package options as well,” said Val Kalliecharan, founder of Turks & Caicos Reservations.

The island-based partnership makes planning and having an overseas surgery in Turks and Caicos a very attractive and accessible alternative, particularly to Canadians who sometimes face long wait times for their surgery, as well as patients in the US where procedures can be very expensive.

Dr. Joe LeMoine of Prime Sports Medicine remarked, “We’re pleased to be able to offer patients wanting to come to Turks and Caicos for major and minor arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder to have the ability to engage with local health travel specialists that can give them first-hand information and book accommodations for themselves and their support group, as well as soft-activities they can enjoy while on the island. The Turks and Caicos Reservations team offers a first class service, the agents are extremely professional and are 100% dedicated to customer service — all the qualities we pride ourselves on so it was without hesitation that we wanted to work with their team.”

About Turks and Caicos Reservations
Turks and Caicos Reservations, an Island Reservations Ltd. company, is the only locally-based booking service for the Turks and Caicos Islands and offers full service vacation planning for visitors including travel packages at hotels, resorts and villas throughout the destination. With locally-based agents available on –island seven days a week from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm (EST) through toll-free phone, email, and live chat channels, Turks and Caicos Reservations provides the most comprehensive listing of accommodation options for the destination. Call 1-877-774-5486 or visit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest to learn more.

About Prime Sports Medicine
Prime Sports Medicine is a leading sports medicine clinic in the Caribbean. It has been providing sports medicine care since 2012. They are now offering North American Quality knee and shoulder arthroscopy for athletes and active adults from around the world in an ideal setting. For more information call 1-649-232-9563 or visit www.primesportsmedicine.com, Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin.

Think Turks & Caicos is only about relaxing on the beach? Nonsense!

I know that vacationing ‘should’ be a time when you can feel good, relax, enjoy the many amazing

Stay fit and have fun at Wrightfully Fit located in Saltmills Plaza, Grace Bay

restaurants that line Grace Bay, but for those of us that work hard at our fitness, the guilt trip of feeling each pound add up could be a downer. Keep in mind that vacations could also be a chance to refresh re-energize and gain new perspective (not an excuse to take a break from good health). Our islands have lots of natural ways to keep on track including running on the powdery white sand beaches, swimming, biking, kayaking, snorkeling, or just going for brisk walks. If you haven’t done some of these things back home, it’s a great chance to try something new while on vacation, and burn a few calories while you’re at it.

That being said, how nice would it be to try out a new fitness center while you’re on vacation? Newly opened (Spring 2013) Wrightfully Fit fitness center is in the heart of the Grace Bay tourist area, located in the Saltmills Shopping Plaza. Stop in and checkout their schedule and classes, it’s a fun way to meet up with some island residents, keep fit and have fun when visiting the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Here are some pictures of the newly opened fitness center.

Coming soon… on Grace Bay beach, Island Fish Fry! Free Admission every Thursday night 5:30pm to 9:30pm at The Bight Park on Lower Bight Board (Western side of Grace Bay beach). Over a dozen local restaurants, native fun and games, hand made arts and crafts, local entertainers and music – will be a ‘truly tasty Island experience’ – see ya on da beach!

Why not take the stress out of the journey and catch the TCI Ferry

Schedule from 4th November 2012 for the Winter period into 2013:

Adult: single $60 return $110 – Child: single $45 return $90

Reservations are highly recommended!

Even though we live right here on the island of Providenciales, it’s nice to be able to stay at a world class beachfront resort for an evening, I guess it’s like staying at a local resort in your own neighborhood in the city you live in just to getaway for a night. I hate to say it without making a lot of friends and family back home jealous, but, my gosh, I really do have the best job in the world! When we’re talking to callers on the phone, it means so much more to them to actually speak to someone that not just lives in the area that they’ll soon be visiting, but also, to have also experienced the bedding, ambiance, amenities, facilities, dining and hospitality; and can talk first-hand about what it’s really like there.

Nice key tags

Our friends at The Regent Grand Resort hosted our family for this very reason, what an enjoyable experience it was. We were absolutely spoiled for the evening with a two bedroom oceanfront suite – this unit is right up in front of world famous Grace Bay beach. The spectacular view from our private balcony was pure turquoise – what a treat to be able to enjoy this view. These beautiful ocean-front suites are located on floors one to four and accessible via semi-private elevators, ours was on the third floor. Randall took us through the suite, and we were all so excited to know that we’d be staying in pure luxury. I’m talking a full gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances, separate living and dining areas, washer/dryer, iron and ironing board, in room safe, private furnished balcony, king and twin bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, this was perfect for our family of four.

We dropped Susan to Teona spa for her relaxing hour long Swedish massage, and the boys and I headed down to the amazingly

View from our oceanfront furnished balcony – a great place to wake up and have your first cup of coffee!

large fresh water infinity edge swimming pool which also had two Jacuzzi and spent the next few hours just relaxing, and spending time with each other. The beach and pool staff were so friendly, and occasionally stopped by to see if we needed anything and brought us some cold bottles of water. By the time we were back up in our suite, housekeeping came to do a light clean and tidy and did the turn down service (my younger son immediately spotted the chocolates she left by the bedside!). She also restocked the Clarins European bath amenities which were also a really nice touch. We also noted some of the other resort amenities such as the Nautilus fitness center, the floodlit tennis court, complimentary bicycles, etc.

Hangin out with the family at the luxurious Regent Grand Resort on Grace Bay

Restaurants within a 5 minute stroll from us were The Vix (the official restaurant of The Regent Grand Resort), Thai Orchid, Garam Masala (yummy authentic Indian food), Yoshi’s Sushi Bar, Danny Buoys Pub and Bella Luna. We decided to get some takeout and bring it back to the room so we could enjoy dining out of the terrace.

Landscaping everywhere was 100% perfect

After dinner and taking a few precious family photos, we played a few card and board games that were in the suite (another nice touch), and shortly thereafter, we were all fighting to keep our eyes open! Off to bed to enjoy the 100% cotton linens and many many layers of bedding.

The next morning, breakfast was delivered to our suite (sometimes it’s served downstairs, sometimes at The Vix, sometimes

Beautiful surroundings in the evening

delivered to the suite – all depends on overall occupancy) in four lovely covered ceramic sectioned containers. Fruit, juice, yogurt, cold cuts, cheese and some super tasty croissants, we all sat there and enjoyed our meal hearing the waves lap and the birds sing.

We spend the rest of the morning chit chatting with some of the resort team (the lovely Jona, Calvin and Randall) and enjoyed some more time at the beach and the pool again.

What a wonderful way to experience the true hospitality of this world class resort, who could ask for anything more?