Business View Caribbean | March 2021

28 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2021 UPLES UCI OF JAMAICA” N estled on a verdant hillside with the most spectacular seaside views, Couples Sans Souci offers all-inclusive luxury above and beyond the desires of the most discerning guests. The resort is a perfect melding of old world glamour with contemporary style and accoutrements, and boasts its own mineral grotto, mineral pool, and intimate Piano Bar. Affectionately known as the “Jewel of Jamaica,” Couples Sans Souci encourages carefree abandon in an atmosphere of pure romance from the moment you arrive on the island’s beautiful north coast. From gourmet farm-to- table cuisine and thirst-quenching cocktails to unlimited recreation and romantic island adventures, this resort is all about relaxation and a worry-free vacation. Couples Sans Souci General Manager, Pierre Battaglia, recounts, “The location was already being used in the early 19th century by some English businesspeople who came to Jamaica and started to develop the entire bluff of Sans Souci as a sort of spa. Why? Because this entire area is situated above a mineral spring. In the 1950s, the property was bought by several other persons who built 32 luxury apartments – some of the most upscale in Jamaica, at the time – for wealthy locals and also tourists who had started coming to the island. In the 1960s, two of the owners decided to buy out the others and turned the apartments into a fabulous hotel.” AT A GLANCE COUPLES SANS SOUCI WHAT: Exclusive five-star, all-inclusive resort WHERE: Ocho Rios, Jamaica WEBSITE: www.couples.com/resorts/sans-souci