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three new rooms this year, during the hotel’s seven-
or eight-week, summer downtime, he’s in no hurry to
expand Hermitage Bay too quickly. “You have to allow
it to evolve and be particularly wary of not damaging
what we already have,” he explains. “I listen to guest
feedback and they like it to be small and intimate, so
that’s something that I’m very keen to preserve. We
probably need to go to a second restaurant at some
stage; we probably need to expand our fitness facili-
ties and expand our spa, but no big changes. We don’t
want to rush anything; we don’t want to make any
changes because it’s working very well as it is.”
Thesen, the accidental hotelier, says he is thinking of
writing a book about his experiences as the owner of
Hermitage Bay, hoping to isolate and explain the ways
in which this ten-year old enterprise became so suc-
cessful. “Because I think what we’ve done there has
been extremely powerful,” he posits. “And I’d like to
explore whether it’s transferable, which I believe it is.”
And perhaps, after that book is written, and his work
is through, Thesen, himself, will decide to relax in the
Caribbean comfort of his own Hermitage Bay.
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