Hotels near Providenciales International - PLS, Providenciales

(1) The host(owner of property or perhaps manager) Rachel was spectacular. She was friendly, helpful and pro-active. She anticipated your needs. She was everywhere doing everything to help with service. (2) Property exceptionally well maintained and decorated and pristinely groomed and cleaned. (3) Great attention to restocking and cleaning of villas. (4) Amazing panoramic view of water from deck in Chalk Sound view villas. (5) The food, service and ambience in the restaurant was top shelf. Highly recommend the grouper entrée, the mahi mahi tacos, cerviche and avocado salad. (6) Short walks to Chalk Sound beach and associated sun bathing as well as hotel water recreational activity. Sopadilla Beach an equallly short walk in the other direction which was beautiful and quaint with a mixture of tourists and locals. Sunset there was spectacular. Locals have food and drink stands. Highly recommend the rum punch and grilled lobster from the beach stands. And find Anthony if he is still around and likely he will be.

If you love snorkeling this is the place to be. Voted 3rd best reef in the world. Tropical weather 80's in December. Or if you want to just sit and enjoy the sun.... I highly recommend an Air B&B since most of the resorts are expensive. Sarawack Estates is in the middle of the PLS airport and Grace Bay an excellent location.

Not being from the island is difficult to answer. Never really knew where we were, didn't care. It all seemed the same to me. However access to the beaches were practically in arms reach. Finding them wasn't difficult if your willing to explore, call them "happy accidents". Gas is expensive, but everything is so close we only filled up once--just to oblige the car rental company.

We stayed for two weeks, and that was a bit too long, even with flying to Grand Turk for a day. If I were to go back, I would stay for a week or a little less, and I would most likely stay in the Grace Bay area instead of Five Cays Settlement. Five Cays Settlement is beautiful, but a bit too lacking in things to do. Most of the boat tours, snorkeling, diving, etc. go out of Grace Bay. If you stay in Five Cays Settlement and want to do more than hang out on the beach that's nearby, you'll need to rent a car and drive about 15-20 minutes away through an industrial area that not attractive and is not a lot of fun with all the dust the big trucks throw.

I was expecting more sights , overall extremely bad value for money . Restaurants far too expensive as are products in the supermarkets . Staff in most hotels were rude or indifferent . (Beaches was the exception , with all staff extremely pleasant and professional ). The various Beaches are nice but could be cleaner. I will not be back .