Hyatt will unfurl its flag on Bermuda when the Park Hyatt Bermuda opens in 2012 on the island's northeast coast in St. George's, a town on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown described the island's partnership with Hyatt "as a catalyst for renewed confidence in Bermuda tourism around the world."
Hyatt's 30-acre seafront location is a storied site once occupied by a Holiday Inn, followed by a Loews hotel and finally by a Club Med, which closed in 1988. The buildings were imploded in August 2008 by 70 tons of dynamite to make way for the Hyatt resort.
Facilities will include 110 hotel rooms, 111 Park Hyatt-branded condominiums, 30 Hyatt fractional-ownership units, four dining venues, a Hyatt Pure spa and fitness center, a private beach club, two pools, tennis courts and 4,000 square feet of meeting space.
The St. George’s Golf Club adjacent to the Park Hyatt Bermuda will undergo a major redesign to become a Nick Faldo-designed course.
Two 19th-century forts on the site will be preserved and incorporated into the resort.
St. George’s was the first permanent settlement on Bermuda and is the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in the New World.