50 November 2015 - Business View Caribbean
Calabash Luxury Boutique Hotel & Spa
Pampering their guests is just a way of life
Grenada is an island country in the Windward chain of
the Lesser Antilles, a group of islands in the Caribbean
Sea, northwest of Trinidad and Tobago. Also known as
the “Island of Spice,” because of the production of nut-
meg, ginger, cloves, and mace, among other spices,
Grenada has been independent since 1974, although
it was once both French and a British colony. Grenada
has many idyllic beaches around its coastline, includ-
ing the 1.9 mile-long Grand Anse Beach in St. George,
which is considered to be one of the finest beaches in
the world. Besides excellent beaches, the island na-
tion also is home to many beautiful waterfalls which
lure tourists and vacationers from around the world.
Grenada is also home to the Calabash Luxury Boutique
Hotel and Spa, owned and operated by Leo Garbutt,
who, with his wife, bought the property on which the
hotel sits, in 1987. Adele Garbutt, Leo’s daughter, is
the resort’s current Sales and Marketing Director. She
explains that the original hotel had only 22 rooms, and
was a far different entity than it is today: “We now have
30 suites and five villas,” she explains. “We essentially
