A family-owned boutique hotel on Grenada has quietly expanded — and the new top-tier rooms are the kind travellers tend to book around. Calabash, on the edge of Prickly Bay, has unveiled two Hillside Penthouse Suites, each with a private infinity pool looking straight down over the water. The additions take the property from 30 to 36 suites, so it stays firmly in small-hotel territory even after the build-out.
The penthouses sit above the main grounds, which is the whole point. At nearly 3,000 square feet each, they pair the elevated position with serious outdoor space: the pool terrace comes with loungers and a shaded dining table, and the king bedroom's sliding doors open onto it, keeping the bay in view from bed. Inside there's open-plan living and dining, a bar and pantry area, and a bathroom with a central soaking tub facing the water, double vanity and dual rain showers.
Because the suites are perched on the hillside, each one comes with its own golf cart for getting around the property — down to the beach, the restaurants or wherever the afternoon takes you. The wider expansion, completed over the past year, also included four Superior Deluxe Suites, giving guests a range of price points within the same intimate footprint.
Food has long been part of Calabash's pull. The signature dinner spot is Rhodes Restaurant, now run by Grenadian Executive Chef Nicholas Cherman, whose menus lean on local farmers, fishermen and producers plus ingredients from the hotel's own L'Esterre Estate. There's also the Beach Club for meals right by the sand — an easy justification to leave the terrace, even briefly.
Who is this for? Travellers who want a suite that functions as a destination in itself. If your ideal day is swimming in your own pool, lingering over breakfast outdoors and barely needing to leave your room — but with a proper restaurant, beach and attentive small-hotel service a golf cart ride away — these penthouses hit that brief. And because the hotel caps out at 36 suites, the seclusion doesn't come at the cost of service or atmosphere. Grenada itself remains one of the Caribbean's less crowded islands, which suits the property's unhurried, estate-to-table style well.
