Some excerpts from the website of Tradewinds Condotel that might be useful
We went to TCI last June and we were so delightfully happy to discover such an oasis of peace and
beauty. Four minutes by walk away from Gracebay beach, we lived at the Tradewinds Condotels. This place was just perfect for a
quiet and relaxing vacation.. Turks and Caicos Vacation at Trade Winds is always pleasant! Actual comments from our Guests... We went to TCI last june and we were so delightfully happy to discover such an oasis of peace and
beauty. Four minutes by walk away from Gracebay beach, we lived at the Tradewinds Condotels. This place was just perfect for a
quiet and relaxing vacation. Tradewinds is a very clean and nice small place, located centrally in Grace Bay. It was easy for us to get our grocery nearby (there is a BBQ at the Tradewinds!) but also to enjoy some very good
restaurants in the area. The staff of the Tradewinds was very cordial and professionnal, and the condos are very well kept. We would recommend a vacation at the Tradewinds Condotels anytime! Martine Giovanni St-Hyacinthe, Qubec, Canada. Steve, Kim, Justin and Kayla Fagen. Bill, Helen and Susannah Mills. On our third
trip to Provo and we are staying once again at the Trade Winds. Personal attention, owner on site,
quiet yet convenient to
restaurants,
shops and a minute walk to the best beach in the Caribbean. Any requests are filled immediately. Great location. Casual atmosphere. Hotel owner in situ/Great value! Susan Jordan Albany, NY. Excellent! Very relaxing and
quiet and peaceful! Outstanding service. Very friendly staff! We have travelled throughout the Carribbean and the Turks and Caicos Islands and Trade Winds are top of the line! Thank you! Melanye Smith, Maryland USA. We had a wonderful week here at Trade Winds! The
room was beautiful and we appreciated all of the extra amenities. Your staff was always helpful and friendly and we never felt anything was missing. Mike and Lina went above and beyond good hospitality to make our stay outstanding. Thanks for all of your help, your kindness and your great accommodations. We will definitely recommend you to all of our friends. EJ Martha Schanfarber Austin, TX. My wife and I enjoyed our stay here at Trade Winds. Michael Lina were very friendly. My wife and I really prefer smaller properties because they tend to be more personable and managed a bit better. Trade Winds certainly lived up to those expectations. Our daughter (6 years) enjoyed staying here and she can be very picky. The staff (maids) were great!! They came in and disappeared before we returned from our morning walks. The property/facility was very clean. The accommodations were great. Kevin Nadesia Hilton. We enjoyed our stay very much. Very peaceful. Would recommend Trade Winds and would like to come back. Management was excellent. Very helpful. Nancy Jim Peckham RI. The Trade Winds is a first rate facility. Our
one bedroom unit was tastefully furnished and had all the comforts of home. The owners, Mike Lina Bailey, were most accommodating. As veteran vacationers in the Caribbean, the waters of Grace Bay beach were the clearest and warmest we`ve ever experienced. The Trade Winds is an excellent spot for A-type personalities to truly relax and unwind. Ken Claudia Davis Hartsdale, NY. We loved it here! The condo was comfortable and had all of the items needed to call it `home`. The beach chairs umbrella were an added extra! The
pool was perfect and the beach - oh, the beach is fantastic! This is the place to come to recharge your batteries! I`ve never felt so rested fit after a weeks vacation. The maids were great! Mike Lina were attentive to all of our needs. Laurie McKinney Pat O`Donnell. We thoroughly enoyed our stay at the Trade Winds. The daily cleaning was wonderful and appreciated. The
pool was very enjoyable and the
garden lovely. The staff were very friendly and helpful. We would recommend the Trade Winds to others. Bill Carolyn Krehel Lapeer, MI. Jean Jerry Shannon Dunrobin, Ontario. Clean, convenience for family of four for cooking, use of
pool. Close to Grace Bay beach. Excellent swimming, snorkeling
Safe. Beautifully landscaped. Spacious. Convenience of washer/dryer. Nancy Lou Duphily Ashburnham, MA. Dave Betty at Half Moon Bay. We had a lovely stay and will recommend Trade Winds Condotel. We especially loved the king size bed - it was very comfortable. The
furniture in the main
room was comfortable and big enough for two to lay down and read! Very nice. The
kitchen was very well appointed.. Julie and Tom Lynch, Columbus, OH. Our choice of Provo and Trade Winds could not have been better. We will return. Trade Winds is an excellent size resort. We will probably be spoiled by the lack of others staying at Trade Winds at this time.. Terry Ranada, Portsmouth, MA. Catherine and
Wedding guests. We would definitely recommend Trade Winds Condotel to our friends and family. We enjoyed staying at your facility. We prefer condo style living and your prices are fair. The
garden and
pool are beautiful. We look forward to returning.. This place (Trade Winds Condotel) is to be recommended. Nice, convenient, cosy and the service is discreet and efficient.. Michael Christine O`Mahoney. We had a great vacation. The condotel is in a great location and accommodations were perfect. We had everything we needed. We walked to many great
restaurants and walked Grace Bay beach countless times. We really appreciated being picked up at the
airport and stopping at the grocery to pick up essentials for the week. Very personalized service! We will be recommending you to our friends when we get home and we hope to bring our son with us when we come back.. Mark Stacia Graham. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Trade Winds. It was an extremely good value for the type of accommodation, level of service and location. We could have stayed another week as you really made us feel at home. We felt as if Trade Winds was an excellent place for children and families. Having a seven month old, we were nervous about the accommodations but we would highly recommend the condo to others with children. Thanks for a wonderful time!. We really enjoyed our stay right from the moment we were picked up from the
airport until the last day which came all too soon. We would definitely recommend the Trade Winds as a home away from home, with a three minute walk to the very excellent Grace Bay beach, to family and friends. Well designed building with top level materials and construction, tastefully decorated with the latest appliances and
quiet remote controlled
air conditioners.. Fred Rose Stainer Markham, Ontario. We enjoyed our stay very much and we would recommend Trade Winds to anyone. Good location, including access to Grace Bay beach,
suite well equipped and tastefully decorated - warm hospitality and good
room service.. Philippe Cheryl Therias, Hawthorne, NY. Our stay was very good and I would recommend Trade Winds Condotel (to family friends). The quality of the
room was excellent. Your friendliness was great to experience!!. Joseph Maralyn Geason.
Wake up to blue skies and white breakers over the reef in the new family owned Trade Winds Condotel. Two minute walk from Grace Bay beach. Units furnished to high standard. Thank you to Mike and Lina - you made me very welcome. Cynthia Sheppard, Portugal. Kevin and I had a great time. Trade Winds Condotel was great: extremely well-furnished with all the comforts of home; beautifully furnished and equipped with all the essentials (and non-essentials as well that were much appreciated!). You guys were extremely committed to assuring that all was satisfactory throughout our stay. The location is central in terms of being close to
restaurants, the
casino, and Grace Bay beach. Although the property is not beach front, the access is easy with a 8 minute walk or 2 minute drive (depending on how much you need to carry to the beach.) The
pool area was quite nice, private, and the
garden...
Thanks for everything. You have a beautiful hotel island. We will be back! We are proud to be an approved AAA / CAA Triple-diamond rated. TRADE WINDS CONDOTEL ISLAND NEWS. Our new administration building opened for
business in June 2007. Now our guests can easily access the
Internet FREE from reception or purchase beer or wine or perhaps items left behind at home such as a razor or toothpaste. Did you know that the Trade Winds Condotel is located in the very heart of the most expensive piece of real estate in the Turks Caicos Islands? No further from the beach than many of the beach front condominiums, the Trade Winds is still considered one of the best valued properties on the island of Providenciales for investment. Did you know that the Trade Winds Condotel is located within walking distance to ten or more
restaurants, catering to all tastes and budgets? The largest outdoor shopping plaza in the islands, The Salt Mills, is a three minute walk from Trade Winds make a reservation at Trade Winds with all your shopping needs directly across the road! Shopping and Banking. Grace Bay is currently enjoying a boom of retail growth with the openings of the second phase of the Salt Mills Plaza and the Regent Village Plaza. Later in 2008 the new Le Vele Plaza will open for
business conveniently located next door to the TRADE WINDS CONDOTEL. Also, across the road from Trade Winds the First Caribbean International
Bank will be opening a branch later in 2008. The
Bank of Nova Scotia also has a new branch on Grace Bay within walking distance of Trade Winds. The new IGA Graceway supermarket is about to break ground within a ten minute walk from Trade Winds. No longer will our guests have to take a
taxi ride or drive the seven miles to the only other IGA supermarket currently on the island. Grace Bay will finally become a self-contained community where guests can relax on the beach, dine in one of our many fine
restaurants, and do their shopping and their banking within easy walking distance from Trade Winds. The Government of the TCI has recently announced the construction of four more
golf courses in the Turks Caicos Islands. In addition to the world class Provo
Golf Course, considered one of the best, if not the best in the Caribbean, a 36 hole links is planned for the Northwest Point area of Providenciales. Two more
golf courses are to be constructed over in North Caicos where a world class Fairmont Hotel is to be built. Now guests can travel to Middle Caicos without taking a plane thanks to the new causeway linking North Caicos and Middle Caicos. Visitors can now take the water
taxi to North Caicos, rent a car on arrival and then drive to Middle Caicos and explore its pristine
beauty. With less than 400 inhabitants, Middle Caicos is the largest island in the Turks Caicos archipelago. At long last Providenciales has a
casino again on the island. Ever since The Allegro resort was demolished in 2006, along with the countrys only
casino, tourists on the island have had no place to go to take their chances with Lady Luck! Now, once again, we have not only one but two
casinos located conveniently at Turtle Cove and the newly opened Casablanca
casino on Grace Bay. Destination to the Stars. Did you know that the Turks Caicos Islands is one of the most popular destinations for Hollywood Stars? Will Smith and his beautiful wife, Jada Pinkett, visited the islands in early September and stayed just a few minutes from the Trade Winds Condotel in one of the islands most luxurious resorts. Actor Bruce Willis and actress Demi Moore have been visiting the islands for years and own a house on Parrot Cay. Sir Paul McCartney, President Bill Clinton, Robin Williams, Kevin Costner are among the many illustrious names visiting the Turk Caicos Islands. Madonna is rumoured to be building a house on the island and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones owns land in North Caicos and Eric Claptons two mast yacht can often be seen moored in Grace Bay. Our most famous resident for the past thirty years is American Bandstand host, Dick Clark. In April 2008 the exclusive Nikki Beach resort will open in Leeward, attracting the rich and the famous to the islands. A huge white
party (where everyone is requested to wear white) will take place on April 5th, hearalding a new era for the island. Our Premier, the Hon. Michael Missick, is married to the fabulous Lisa Raye McCoy (Hollywood star of the hit sitcom, All of Us) and so we all excited about the prospect of many more Hollywood stars visiting the islands in the future. We now have a brand new cinema called the L.Raye cinema, named after our first lady, Lisa Raye McCoy Missisck, the wife of the nations premier, The Hon. Dr. Michael Missick. The new cinema boasts three
screens and has all the latest
movies opening the same week as they do in the United States. A proposal has been made by the government to establish an Indy 500 track sometime in the near future. This would be extremely exciting news and would bring millions of dollars of extra revenue to the islands. A new
airport terminal is due to start construction in 2008 along with a runway extension. The runway extension will allow the larger
jets to fly here from Europe directly without a stopover in either Miami or Nassau, Bahamas. This will open up the Turks Caicos Islands to the lucrative European market which has been largely ignored because of the difficulty of getting to the islands without the inconvenience of flying to the United States first or stopping over in Nassau for refueling on the weekly British Airways flight. The government is currently upgrading all of our major roads on the island of Providenciales as well as other islands of the Turks Caicos Islands. Mindful to obey the national speed limits (40mph on Leeward Highway and 20mph along Grace Bay Road) now our guests can travel
safely and comfortably to their resort without driving along roads littered with dangerous potholes. Leeward Highway is an ultra modern highway built to the standard of UK road construction by the leading construction engineering firm in the Caribbean, Johnston International. At the Trade Winds Condotel resort we offer FREE high speed,
wireless Internet connection to all our guests. It has been reputed that the Turks Caicos Islands is the most wired country in the world!! With only approximately 30,000 inhabitants in the Turk Caicos Islands yet we still enjoy one of best cellular services in the world, and also enjoy the reputation of having one of the highest numbers of cellar users per captia of any country in the world. Before the end of the year the Turks Caicos Islands will have three cellular providers;
Cable Wireless, Digicel and IslandCom. Did you know that Grace Bay Beach was voted the Worlds Best Beach by the World Travel Awards? And did you know that it is only a three minute walk from the Trade Winds Condotel to what is now the quietest part of Grace Bay Beach! Imagine staying at The Trade Winds, close to
shops and
restaurants and only three minutes from the worlds best beach!!!! Surely, life could not get any better!!!!! Book your reservation at Trade Winds today!