Both Grace Bay and Long Bay offer their usual warm-weather activities, such as sunbathing, swimming and diving. However, Grace Bay Beach is more popular for motorized water sports such as jet ski, water ski, and boat trips for diving or fishing. Grace Bay is also home to the Provo Golf Club.
There are distinct differences between staying in Long Bay and Grace Bay, Among the three sister resorts, there are nine restaurants and several bars to choose from (with signature privileges). Highlights at The Palms include the beachfront 72 West (where light and tasty lunchtime specials include tuna wontons and watermelon and feta salad) and Parallel 23 (for a gourmet Caribbean fusion dinner in a romantic patio setting). Shore Club's top picks include the Sui-Ren Japanese fusion fine-dining restaurant for specialty sushi, grilled fish and tasty bowls and curries, and Almond Tree, a more casual outdoor restaurant serving modern and comforting fare, including wood-fired pizzas for the whole family.
The only restaurant at The Sands is Hemingway's beachfront, open from 8 am to. m. every day and a place to have lunch with fish tacos or Provo's specialty, conch fritters. Pale aquamarine water is so shallow that customers can wade through while drinking.
About 2.3 miles offshore, the wreck of an old La Famille Express freighter, which was deposited on a sandbank by Hurricane Frances in 2004, can also be visited by boat or jet ski to take a look. Both Long Bay Beach and Grace Bay Beach are incredible coastlines, but they're quite different. The ocean at Grace Bay increases in depth closer to shore, but because it is on the protected side of the island, the water tends to be calmer. In the morning, people can watch the sunrise in the southeast-facing Long Bay, especially those who book one of The Shore Club's beachfront suites, which have spacious terraces with panoramic ocean views.
As you travel east along Grace Bay Beach, you'll find wide and almost deserted stretches of beach. Long Bay and Grace Bay are known for their stunning white sand beaches, crystal clear waters and their proximity to luxury hotels and villas.
Grace Bay's sand is young as it has traveled less from its point of origin on the barrier reef, resulting in larger, more irregular grains that are soft to walk on. If you walk east on Grace Bay Beach, you'll pass an area called “Pelican Beach”. Location and topography play a tremendous role in the creation and quality of beach sand, and another apparent difference between the two beaches is sand.
Sometimes it's hard to know where the beach ends and where the sky begins, since the blues mix with each other. As for snorkeling, there's not much to see directly in front of any of the resorts (maybe a line or two), but at the end of the beach, on the left, guests can swim to Bight Reef (aka Coral Gardens) to spy on colorful marine life. A place of breathtaking, wild and windswept beauty, Malcolm's Beach is just for those interested in adventure. Families love Long Bay Beach because of its tranquil environment and calm, shallow waters that are perfect for little ones.
Kitesurfers also like to venture here, as the beach enjoys some of the most reliable winds in the Caribbean. Sometimes a beach vacation is more of a pool vacation, if so, both The Shore Club and The Palms have pool oases that won't disappoint.
