Bay Gardens Resorts

Business View Caribbean 5 leadership, Bay Gardens ultimately returned to profit- ability using a combination of innovative online mar- keting methods and the targeting of specific groups of guests. It also began receiving more and more favor- able recognition from travel sites and business groups, and today Bay Gardens is considered one of the pre- mier, locally-owned hotels on St. Lucia. Never content, though, to sit on its laurels, the Bay Gardens group is constantly updating, innovating, and improving its portfolio of guest services. The last time Business View Magazine spoke with Sanovnik Des- tang, he related how the Resort was getting ready to open a brand new water feature - Splash Island Water Park St. Lucia – designed and operated by his wife, Julianna Ward-Destang. We recently caught up with Destang to find out more about the water park and everything else that is happening these days at Bay Gardens. “The water park opened in August 2015,” he says, “and we had four thousand customers in our first month – locals, guests, and visitors from other properties. And it’s pushing twenty thousand people since it opened.” Destang remarks that the park has made the hotel a property of choice for the family market, while at the same time attracting adult groups who want to utilize the park’s unique features for team-building exercises. “This is not a normal water park,” says Destang. “It’s an inflatable, floating water park that actually sits on the water. And it’s an obstacle course – monkey bars, trampolines, and all kinds of obstacles that you have to get through to complete the course.” He remains somewhat surprised that the park is so unique to the Caribbean region. “There are 200 of them around the world,” he muses, “but ours is the first one in the Ca- ribbean. These parks are in Europe, they are in Asia, they’re all over the place except the Caribbean where @rainforestseafoods Your Trusted Caribbean Seafood Supplier The largest variety of fresh quality Seafood from across the globe, right to your table.