Rosewood Little Dix Bay

Came in July for five days on a large corporate getaway. Everything at the resort is fantastic. The service is awesome Stafford exemplary in particular Tiffany and Miss lucy on the beach and Miss Carol at breakfast were awesome. Our Butler‘s Javid and Hubert were awesome.Beautiful peaceful spot little hit and miss with restaurants but overall a true five star experience If you are looking for privacy this is your spot

Visited with Wife as part of her 50th birthday celebration. It was a spontaneous trip as we booked just 4 weeks in advance. Best to fly into Tortola (EIS) via Miami. Then hotel offers courtesy boat shuttle (short 15 min) to resort. We purchased a waterfront suite instead of beach bungalow as it seemed more spacious. When we arrived, our assigned butler offered us an upgrade to "treehouse suite" for $300 more per day. Although I hoped this would be covered by our Amex Platinum benefits, it was not. I agreed and the room was nice. Basically, a one-bedroom suite with separate living room. Amazingly comfortable bed, very nice living room, and bathroom with both indoor and outdoor shower. NO LOCKS or keys on outside of door so be ready to use provided safe. AND NO TV. Butler claimed they were giving us a special rate, but when I checked resort website, price was identical. AND its actually $360 per night as they add taxes and surcharge. MASSIVE downside was the obligatory 20% fee added to every purchase. This MANDATORY 20% on everything is not a gratuity as it is not earned. It is simply assumed and taken. Room did have small bugs and a roach in closet. Really disappointing for what we paid. Staff was generally very kind and attentive but occasionally we ran into rude staff at breakfast just prior to opening. Butlers and most of staff were great overall but it seemed many were ready for resort annual shutdown in august. Food was excellent and they regularly adjusted based on our needs. Property is gorgeous and well maintained. GYM is excellent and overdelivered. Also, great if you like pickleball or tennis. 3 restaurant options but be sure to make reservations. Butlers are excellent and help with boat / rental car reservations. No effort is made to respect adults / couples from families with kids. The pool seems to be "owned" by kids and with no adult pool, your sadly on your own to manage.

Beautiful place, food is phenomenal

I keep getting pinged by Tripadvisor to leave a review, so here goes. Stayed at Little Dix early last summer for four nights, traveling solo and had a one-bedroom ocean view cottage. Though the resort had beautiful grounds and the room was very nice, for the price there was just too many things off. It started with their irritating email communications prior to arrival as a good sign of what was to come. The constant intrusion of when will you specifically arrive and how, like I was literally going to schedule a minute-by-minute arrival. I said I was going to arrive on such and such ferry and pick up my rental car. They still wanted more. The whole stay they acted like it was odd I had a rental car and didn’t want to be captive to their property and their overpriced activities and restaurants. When I finally arrived, they had two nice ladies waiting at the parking lot. Instead of going to their nice large reception area like they should do, they handed me off to a fill-in “butler” to do the check-in in the room. This was so dumb. The guy’s tablet barely worked and I’m sitting there being asked to go over all this crap I’ve already given them. Typing all my details all over again on a dinky tablet keyboard, digging out credit card number, etc. I guess because I hadn’t given them my exact to the minute arrival time that the assigned butler wasn’t available. I think I saw him twice the rest of my stay. Apparently, that was my fault as I didn’t have WhatsApp on my phone. Oh my. The room was nice (no keys) yet only had two small glass 750ml Etonridge water bottles. I get not doing the plastic bottle thing but that wasn’t going to cut it. No where near enough water and the paperwork in the room makes it sounds like you will be charged quite a bit for that bottled water. This butler said no, no charge, and they would send over more water. They also constantly push the “you must make reservation nonsense” over and over. I drank a bottle of water (leaving 1 bottle until god knows when) and walked down the beach to have a nice lunch at the Reef House (fish sandwich and one local beer $65 inc “service” charge and tip). Ended up driving around and then back to the resort for a sun downer at the Rum “Room” and then back to the room to clean up for dinner. A simple mojito at the Rum Room was $26 plus service charge and tip. If you don’t leave a tip on top of the “service” charge, guess how great your service will be. Get to the room and there was still no water refill. Drank the last bottle. LOL Walked down for dinner at the Sugar Mill and stopped by the front desk to inquire again about the water. By the time I got back after dinner there were like six bottles in the room. They kept them stocked after that, and surprisingly there was no separate charge. Dinner at the Sugar Mill – ordered a tasty seafood stew that was supposed to have shrimp, fish, clams/mussels, and lobster. It only had shrimp and a couple of chunks of fish in it. The wine was half corked and warm too. That first day ended up being the last dime I spent there. $26 for a simple mojito! The included breakfast at the Pavillion was a large spread but really out of place for a resort of this renown and level. Why not just have a nice menu!?! Also, you got birds picking at the spread that is all over the place all morning long. At breakfast on my fourth day when I was seated by the restaurant manager, he handed me a piece of paper with that day’s details. I said “wow, first time seeing this”. He seemed in shock and asked “you didn’t receive this each day?” LMAO, funny, he was the one who had sat me two of the other days. Sure would have been nice to see the day’s schedule of openings, closings, activities available, etc. Another day tried going back to the Reef House for lunch and it was already closed and then not open for dinner. The next day went back and it was closed for lunch. Too bad I didn’t have that breakfast handout. Ran into the assigned butler the second day and mentioned the place was closed and all he could basically say was “well there is free ice cream down on the beach”. WTF. Why at a place like this do you think anyone cares about “free” ice cream. He was also surprised when I was like “is there no fricking beach bar or anything to kick back on at the beach?!” He was like no, no beach bar, but there are buttons for service at the beach lounge chairs. No beach bar was pretty weak. Then he mentioned the necessity to make reservations! Glad I had the rental car to go do whatever I wanted (easy car rental experience with Speedys). Had good dinners at Coco Maya, Rock Café, & Sugarcane, and a great lunch over at Bitter End YC. Spent afternoons at the next bay up from Little Dix, Savannah Bay, which was a great deserted beach and beautiful water. I just picked up beer and drinks at the grocery in town and brought them back to my room. Had them while at the resort rather that being charged those absurd prices. Took some bottles down to the beach. Don’t think the beach attendant liked that too much. Oh well. Their beach is nice but the water was rocky and filled with grass. The beach and water up at Savannah bay was so much nicer. My room was all the way down at the other end of the resort. I either walked or rode one of their bikes. Never did anyone driving by in a cart ever ask if I wanted a ride. The bikes were not in great condition. No baskets to hold all of your crap and weak brakes. The bikes all seemed to be women’s bikes, or for guys that are very tall. They mostly all had high bars in the middle which isn’t too fun to land on when you have to stand up when coming to a stop. Last night there I was strolling around and the front desk guy flagged me down. Apparently, the butler couldn’t get contact with me about my check out details. Oh my. I was like what is the issue!?! For some reason they couldn’t get it through their heads that I had a rental car and make my own schedule. I also asked about the promo credit that was supposed to be on my account and he confirmed it would be there. He also couldn’t believe I didn’t have WhatsApp on my phone for the Butler. I go to check out the next morning and big surprise, the bill was wrong, missing the credit among other things. They go to fix again and was wrong again. It was later after leaving that I got the corrected “final portfolio” in an email from the manager. I think my total spend of $85 at the resort must have been a record low. I had intended to go to their Las Ventanas property later last year but took a pass after Little Dix.

Second visit to LDB! Absolutely gorgeous resort. Beautiful location right on the private bay. Breakfast every morning was delicious and views unbelievable! Everything is spotless. The rooms are gorgeous from the amazing sheets to the shower gel….luxury at its finest. Worth the cost.