Just wow!! I cannot imagine a more beautiful beach!!! The water really is turquoise and transparent out to hundreds of meters. Dolphins swim into the bay so frequently that the restaurants name them. Staff of the restaurants and hotels that dot the seven-mile-shoreline ensure that the sand and the water are immaculate. Just take a look at the video:
Some details: My fiance and I stayed in an Air BNB rather than booking one of Provo's expensive hotels. Renting a house is orders of magnitude less expensive but that means we have to travel to the island's different beaches. We are 3 blocks from Long Bay, which I reviewed earlier, but a car ride away from Grace Bay. We did not rent and just planned to laze the day away on Long Bay when our guide Audley volunteered to take us to Hemingway's on Grace Bay. Wow!!!
Grace Bay is seven miles of white sand and turquoise waters. There are multiple hotels right on the beach and the staff keeps the beach clean. The hotel staff places parasols and beach chairs on the sand which are only for use by hotel patrons. This is the least enforced rule ever and also nothing stops you from bringing your own chairs. The numerous hotels also sell food and drinks. For people used to Antigua, Grenada, or the Dominican Republic, the price of food and drinks is exorbitant. But no one is forcing you to buy any of it.
Now to the beach itself. I have been visiting beaches all my life. I have visited beaches in the following countries: Antigua, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, St. Lucia, Tobago, Trinidad, Thailand, and the US- New Jersey, and Florida. Grace Bay Turks and Caicos is the most beautiful beach I have ever seen.
I created this blog so that I could remember all of the beaches I visited, especially since no one reads it but me. I also created this blog because there is no such thing as the world's most beautiful beach as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I thought the joy would be in finding beautiful beach candidates and then I found this beach.
This is the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. I am always changing the rankings. Before visiting Antigua, I gave Tobago's beaches scores close to 10 out of 10. After visiting Jolly Beach, I had to move them down, not because they are any less beautiful but because I had to make space for Antigua's beaches. I took a catamaran around the entire island of Antigua and its beaches are all just a bit more beautiful than those of Tobago. Now that I have seen Grace Bay, I have to be convinced that there is a beach out there more beautiful than this!
9.99999 out of 10.
There's food and drinks available, jet skiiing, parasailing, it is calm, and you have to approach people rather than being accosted by them. The only conceivable issue is that if you go swimming to far, you could run into the boats which circumnavigate the island.
