Six Senses is opening a 3 island resort in South Carolina — and the journey begins on Hilton Head
Lovers of luxurious and wellness, prepare: Six Senses is headed to the Lowcountry.
Set to open in 2026, the Six Senses South Carolina Islands will encompass a sprawling 460-acre property spanning Hilton Head Island, Daufuskie Island and Bay Level Island, and can embody a resort, one of many model’s celebrated spas and even residential choices.
As soon as open, company will begin their Six Senses journey on Hilton Head Island at a “welcome hub” with a restaurant and buying outlet, based on an announcement from IHG, earlier than being whisked off to the resort or residences on a hybrid yacht or electrical water boat.
On Daufuskie Island, company will discover visitor rooms, suites and cottages alongside the seaside, alongside an all-day restaurant, a “specialty eatery and bar,” a seaside membership, a pool grill and varied programming that happen all through a go to.
For folk wanting extra space to unfold out, a couple of two- to five-bedroom visitor residences can be accessible to ebook.
Daufuskie Island will even be house to a Six Senses Spa and the model’s integrative wellness program, which incorporates actions like yoga and meditation, plus visiting wellness practitioners with varied specialties. A lot of Six Senses focuses on personalization and, as IHG shared, an “strategy that fuses scientific advances with historical knowledge price remembering.”
Nevertheless it will not all be mindfulness. Friends also can get pleasure from some journey on Daufuskie Island with watersports, crusing and fishing, in addition to some native tradition with studios highlighting native artists.
Exterior the resort itself, company can benefit from a spherical of golf and even equine remedy at an built-in farm and golf course situated on the island, which occurs to be the southernmost inhabited sea island in South Carolina.
On Bay Level Island, branded residential villas can be accessible. These villas can be hurricane-resilient, modular and have eco-friendly designs and methods together with renewable power, reverse-osmosis water provides and helical piling that limits soil disruption. In keeping with IHG, a restricted variety of these villas can be accessible on the market in 2024.
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The residential models spotlight the complete resort’s concentrate on sustainability, which is designed to assist defend the world and scale back its general environmental footprint.
Deliberate in partnership between IHG, Whitestone and Redrock Portfolio, Inc., there’s a lot to be taught concerning the upcoming resort. However the true query is whether or not it’s going to open as the primary Six Senses in the US, as properties in Hudson Valley, New York, and Napa Valley, California, are additionally within the pipeline.
It additionally solidifies what Jolyon Bulley, IHG’s CEO of the Americas, instructed TPG earlier this yr about IHG’s plans to launch Six Senses within the U.S. in “leisure resort” areas earlier than doubtlessly transferring into “chosen city areas.”
You may keep in mind that an city Six Senses was initially deliberate for New York Metropolis, however that undertaking was scrapped in 2022.
Both means, the upcoming push of Six Senses from sea to shining sea is an enormous win for IHG loyalists, although solely time will inform what sort of price ticket comes with the resort expertise.
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