Bitter End Yacht Club

With an emphasis on sailing and watersports, Bitter End draws active families seeking a tranquil holiday free of television, air-conditioning, and automobiles. The resort is set on 75 acres of steep, green hillside and one mile of ocean shoreline. The main section resembles a Caribbean seaside village, with multicolored buildings, gingerbread trim, and corrugated red-steel roofs.

In addition to its complimentary watercraft fleet, the resort offers a mile-long, gently curved oceanfront featuring three beaches, each furnished with cushioned, weathered-teak lounge chairs. One beach, protected from Atlantic Ocean breezes, has calm water ideal for swimming. Another beach offers windsurfing and snorkeling. The resort's swimming pool is bordered by a sundeck with canopy shades.

Video movies, usually beginning with a children's selection, are shown nightly in an open-air theater. Complimentary children's arts-and-crafts activities are hosted in an open-air thatched-roof hut Monday-Friday. Computers in the main building provide dial-up Internet access (fee charged). Within the resort are clothing boutiques, arts-and-crafts shops, and a store offering wine, liquor, snack foods, and baked goods. The resort's marina includes 70 moorings and 14 slips as well as a fuel dock, electric hookups, a chandlery, and private showers and toilets dockside.

Full American Plan (FAP) Includes:

-Three meals daily, including juices, tea, and coffee (not included: alcoholic beverages and soft drinks)
-Picnic lunches for excursions and day-trips
-Monday night cocktail party
-Use of resort's watersports fleet
-Trips aboard Ponce de Leon snorkeling boat
-Sunday Regatta racing aboard Lasers and Rhodes 19s
-Beginners' and children's sailing classes
Not included in the Full American Plan but available for extra charges are liquor, beer, wine, and soft drinks; food at the English Pub; and use of Freedom 30 sailboats and Bradley 22 powerboats.

Guests staying seven nights or more qualify for the Admirals Package, which includes the following additional complimentary benefits:

-Snorkeling excursions to attractions such as the Baths, Jost Van Dyke, Anegada atoll, Norman Island, and the Dog Islands/Coral Gardens National Park
-Day and sunset sails aboard the racing catamaran Paranda
-Junior sailing lessons (ages 12-17)
-Use of Bitter End's 100 watercraft, regatta racing on Sundays, sailing lessons for children and beginners, and trips aboard the Ponce de Leon snorkeling boat: All are complimentary.

Dining:

Clubhouse Steak & Seafood Grille - Open-air waterfront restaurant.
The Carvery - Monday night roast-meat-and-seafood buffet.
Almond Walk - Tuesday night West Indian buffet and live music in starlit, open-air setting near tropical almond trees.
The Clubhouse Bar - Cocktails and tropical drinks.
Poolside Bar - Light foods and tropical drinks.
The English Pub - Rum, beer, sandwiches, pizza, snack foods. (Food not included in Full American Plan.) Open daily until late night

87 guestrooms in 23 weathered-wood buildings on a rocky hillside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Each villa building has two guestrooms and is accessible by steep wood-and-stone stairways and paths past rock formations and through dense flowering gardens. Incorporating fieldstone walls, dark woods, and rattan furniture, rooms are designed for private, open-air living in the resort's natural setting. Oceanview, wraparound wood verandas under thatched awnings feature two-person hammocks, lounge chairs, and two-chair dining sets. No televisions or radios intrude on the tranquil ambience. Rooms are cooled by ocean breezes and ceiling fans (no air conditioning). The room prices at this resort are available in a Full American Plan (all meals, but not beverages) or European Plan (no meals).


Beef Island/Tortola Airport (EIS): Guests are greeted at the airport and directed to taxis that transport them to the North Sound Express ferry dock, which is located at Trellis Bay about one mile away. The ferry transports them in about 35 minutes to Bitter End Yacht Club. Ferry rates vary according to time of arrival and are charged at the hotel.

This resort will be closed to the public from Aug.22, 2006-Oct.12, 2006, and from Dec.20, 2006-Jan.2, 2007.

Check in: 3:00PM
Check out: 12:00PM