Mariners

cindim · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 114

Where exactly where was that? What's happened to the property? My friend had stayed there years and years ago and asked me if I knew. Since I didn't, I came to you guys!

So, I know Cinnamon Reef, Sonesta, and Mariners are no longer there--are there any other hotels that used to be popular that have "bit the dust"?

Coquina · Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 91

There once was Cocoloba, which was where Viceroy is now.

Are you only asking about properties that have really and literally bit the dust, or also in properties that have been totally rebranded. For the latter Shoal Bay Beach Hotel (now Ku) springs to mind.
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fiddler · Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Maine

Mariners was on Road Bay at the opposite end of the beach from the end that Johno's is on. The remains of the resturant is still on the beach and the cottages in various stages of disrepair (mostly pretty far gone) are still there.

cindim · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 114

Coquiana

Pretty much anything that was pretty popular once before and has changed over and become something else or just "disappeared". Wasn't there something on Shoal Bay, too.

JGC · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject:

Prior to Temenos, it was Sonesta, and before that it was Casablanca...

Gary

Noway · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:15 pm Post subject:

Mariners is just rotting. You would not recognize it. Its hardly visable. Its on Sandy Ground, just as you enter Road Bay area, off to the left before the turn on the bottom of the hill. Closed up years go. Gone, gone gone.
We ate breakfast there in 1989. The little yellow birds were sitting on the sugar packs. Those were the days............
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shoegal · Joined: 15 May 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Northern Michigan

Fountain Beach (or something like that) used to be on Shoal Bay. Never stayed there but toured it once as a future possibility. There were no guests when we did the tour. Next thing I knew, it was closed up for good. Looks like it had been a neat place in its time.

John S · Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 99 Location: Blue Bell, PA

checked out Mariner's when we were down 7/10-7/17. the property gate was open and we drove through the reception area. it's in poor condition. Back in the day it was a pretty cool little resort.

Ate dinner at the Fountain Beach Hotel back in '90. The restaurant was La Fontana. Amazing Italian cuisine.

Smuggler's Cove is now back in this category of places gone wayward. Most of us know this location as the original site for Straw Hat. It was Smuggler's Cove originally and sat vacant for years before Peter made something of it.

Noway · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject:

And Shamash was the chef at La Fontana. But we never went there!
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cindim · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 114

The year we stayed at Cinnamon Reef, we tried to go to Smugglers Cove and it had closed. On our next trip there, we were lucky to go to Straw Hat! Loved the location but it was a bit "out of the way", to say the least.

Thank goodness for this board that lets you know about stuff like that so you are prepared! Coming from the other end of the island, I think we might have given up on going to both Straw Hat and Cote de Mer, if we hadn't known how it would be to find them!