Is a Private-Island Paradise in Turks and Caicos Worth the Price?

The boat skipped across the shimmering turquoise water, and after the captain cut the throttle we glided toward the sleepy marina that serves as a gateway to Pine Cay, an 800-acre private island with about 40 homes and the beachfront Pine Cay resort. Staff waited on the dock in crisp polo shirts and smiles, golf carts at the ready; the scene brought to mind a line from the show The White Lotus, where a manager says the goal is to create for guests “an overall impression of vagueness.” Pine Cay is intimate — just 15 suites and cottages — and carries the Relais & Châteaux seal that promised good food.

What most guests seemed to seek was silence: as a server named Naffy put it, “even the wind feels guilty for making noise.” There are no TVs in the rooms (Wi‑Fi is available), and the soundtrack is mostly waves and the crackle of surf. All of that comes at a cost.

Turks and Caicos, Pine Cay

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