The first tourist development ever built in the Turks and Caicos, established in the early 1970s as The Meridian Club on a car-free, 800-acre private island, is not a bad foundation for a hotel. Pine Cay reopened in July 2021 as a Relais & Châteaux property following a thorough refurbishment by homeowner and designer Tim Simond, who kept the scale deliberately human: thirteen beachfront rooms and suites arranged in single-storey clusters around a central Clubhouse, with powdered white sand and turquoise shallows filling every sightline. Simond's material choices honour the place rather than import a generic luxury idiom — whitewashed walls, light-toned wood panelling, and joinery worked from the island's own native pine trees give the interiors a specificity that most Caribbean resorts never achieve. The rooms show bleached hardwood floors, louvred shutters painted white, and teak accents throughout, with teal cotton throws providing the one deliberate chromatic note against otherwise neutral bedding. Full-width sliding glass walls dissolve the boundary between bedroom and terrace, the outside furnished with wicker and teak seating that continues the interior palette without interruption. At the beach bar and restaurant, whitewashed driftwood columns carry a thatched roof overhead, and a sculptural installation of white ceramic fish moves above the dining tables in the sea breeze. The main pool sits on axis with the beach, its pale stone surround framed by palapa-shaded loungers and, beyond them, nothing but open water.

15-25min boat ride from Providenciales (PLS)

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