We spent a week at Discovery in September as part of our honeymoon. We booked a Bay View Room which is exactly what it was – tremendous view! The room was spacious and contemporary and the bathroom was huge with twin basins and large walk in shower. The decked pool area was great but I wonder how congested it gets in high season – there were approx 40 guests when we were there (low season). The swim-up pool bar was superb and particularly taken advantage of by the husband who was keen to get regular Ryder Cup updates.
There are two restaurants, Boudreau (where breakfast is served) and Hurricane Hole Bar, plus the Pink Snail Champagne Bar. The former serves a la carte and had a very tasty (although not vast) menu. Excellent wine list but very poor choice of Whiskey’s (note to Sven, F&B Manager, from husband – a few more Scottish Single Malts would be most welcome). Hurricane Hole Bar serves bar snacks and was popular for pre and post dinner drinks. The two venues are next to each other but whilst we were there building work started with the intention to move the HHB down to water level and expand Boudreau. I think this will be a most welcome move as I did wonder how the restaurants coped in high season when they were operating at full capacity. It is worth mentioning though that all guests (including ourselves) had no advance notice of the building work from our tour operators (as Discovery advised should have happened) and for those guests staying near the building work this was a bit of an issue. As a result the staff put on additional water taxis to various beaches throughout the day so those guests could escape if they wished to. Although saying that the building work was well away from the main pool and so most of us continued to relax around the pool.
What can I say about the staff? Excellent. All staff were very friendly and it was genuine warmth – which can be rare in some top end hotels. There was a very relaxed yet professional and courteous atmosphere which suited me and my husband (unlike hotel we went on to stay at in Grenada). As it was low season, many of the hotel excursions were cancelled so we had to go solo on a few occasions but Tracy (Concierge) was so nice about it and helped us arrange our own trips that it was impossible to get annoyed.
Discovery does feel a bit like it is in the middle of nowhere. There are no other hotel resorts in the vicinity so if you like to have a big choice of bars and restaurants and to wander down ‘a strip’ on an evening then this is not for you. It does however have a couple of small restaurants which are walking distance/two minute water taxi across the bay (Chateau Mygo and Doolittle’s). There is also a small selection of shops in the marina including a coffee shop, bank, supermarket, souvenir shop and clothing boutique.
We do not normally return to the same hotel as we like to try as many new places (countries and hotels) as possible but we have decided that we will return make a return visit to Discovery. We enjoyed every minute – even though we were not so lucky with the weather!






