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70 71 Some facing the pool, some looking out at the har- bor, others have private decks. Add to that a 42-slip marina, and it makes operating this hotel more like a 76-room resort. Most guests come from Florida. As Sarah Ann ex- plains it, “They treat the Abacos like Martha’s Vine- yard, coming over on weekend trips, and a few weeks at a time for holiday vacations. Green Turtle Cay is on the same latitude line as Palm Beach, but has a more temperate climate; 10 degrees warmer in winter, 10 degrees cooler in summer. It’s a one-hour flight from Flori- da, but you feel like you went somewhere completely exotic.” The Green Turtle Club has 44 year- round employees; 50 percent of them GREEN TURTLE CLUB RESORT & MARINA The Green Turtle Club has 44 year- round employees; 50 percent of them live on the property. The re- sort closes from the end of August through the end of October every year. First, because it’s hurricane season. Second, because extensive maintenance repairs are done during that time to keep the property at its best. It also gives employees a well-deserved vacation after 10 months of hard work. live on the property. The resort closes from the end of August through the end of Oc- tober every year. First, because it’s hurricane season. Second, because extensive maintenance repairs are done during that time to keep the property at its best. It also gives employees a well-deserved vacation after 10 months of hard work. Sarah Ann focuses her marketing efforts on promoting Green Turtle Cay, itself, as a desti- nation: “Because even if they’re staying in the houses or another resort on the island, they’re going to be patronizing us.We’re a small resort, so when we fill the whole island, everybody succeeds. I’m competing with other islands throughout the Bahamas and the Abacos; trying to educate my customers staying on the mainland to take that extra taxi or ferry ride over here because we have more to offer than the bigger islands.We’re more secluded, elite, luxurious–but it takes some hand holding to get them here.” The other resort on the island is Bluff House, located across the harbor from the Green Tur- tle Club. “It’s another wonderful offering on the