All-Inclusive Resorts in Grenada
The Spice Isle is the Caribbean's most underrated all-inclusive destination: fewer than a dozen resorts, one of the region's greatest beaches in Grand Anse, world-class wreck diving on the Bianca C, and a position at 12°N that puts it south of the main hurricane belt. It is small, green, and refreshingly short on mega-resorts.
By All-Inclusive Guide Editorial Team
Research & Editorial Desk · August 2026 · How we review
Top-Rated Resorts
Spice Island Beach Resort
Grand Anse & South Coast
Spice Island Beach Resort is the best hotel in Grenada and one of the last genuinely family-owned luxury all-inclusives in the Caribbean — 64 oversized suites strung along Grand Anse Beach…
Calabash Hotel and Villas
Calabash is the best argument in the Caribbean that all-inclusive does not have to mean big.
Sandals Grenada Resort & Spa
Grand Anse & South Coast
Sandals Grenada is the most complete all-inclusive on the island and the best Sandals property for divers, full stop — ten restaurants, six bars, five pools, included PADI diving on the…
Coyaba Beach Resort
Grand Anse & South Coast
Coyaba is the value play on Grand Anse and the resort we point most people toward when the Sandals and Spice Island rates land badly.
True Blue Bay Boutique Resort
True Blue Bay is the cheapest way to do a genuine all-inclusive in Grenada, and it is the most interesting hotel on this list — colorful, eco-minded, family-run and packed with quirks like…
Royalton Grenada, An Autograph Collection All-Inclusive Resort
Grand Anse & South Coast
Royalton Grenada is the island's only large family all-inclusive, and on price it is the best value in Grenada by a distance — 269 all-suite rooms, a kids' club, a splash pad, eight bars…
Prices shown are indicative nightly rates that change with season, room type, and availability — always confirm the current rate and exactly what's included before you book.
Why Grenada for All-Inclusive Resorts in 2026?
Grenada has somewhere between five and eight all-inclusive resorts, depending on how strictly you define the term — and that number is the single most useful thing to know before you start shopping. This is not Punta Cana. There is no ten-mile strip of interchangeable 800-room properties. The entire island’s resort stock would fit inside one Bávaro mega-resort, and the majority of it sits on a five-mile stretch of the south coast between St. George’s and the airport.
Here is the honest breakdown. Four resorts are all-inclusive by default, meaning the rate you see is the rate that covers your food and drink: Sandals Grenada, Spice Island Beach Resort, Royalton Grenada and Coyaba Beach Resort. Two more sell all-inclusive as a rate plan you have to actively choose: Calabash Hotel and Villas, where AI is one of three plans alongside breakfast and half board, and True Blue Bay, where it is a supplement of roughly $150 per person per day on top of a room-only rate. Beyond those six, Laluna and Mount Cinnamon both offer optional AI meal plans on boutique villa products, and two of the island’s most photographed hotels — Silversands and the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort — are not all-inclusive at all, no matter how the aggregator sites file them.
That structural quirk is why Grenada trips people up. On most Caribbean islands, “all-inclusive resort” is a category. Here it is a rate plan, and reading the booking confirmation carefully is genuinely load-bearing.
What you get in return for the smaller choice set is an island most of the Caribbean has stopped being: green, mountainous, agricultural, and still recognizably itself. Grand Anse is a two-mile arc of white sand with a public road behind it rather than a wall of hotels. The diving — the 600-foot Bianca C wreck and Jason deCaires Taylor’s Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park, the world’s first — is the best in the eastern Caribbean. Belmont Estate still runs a working cocoa plantation and River Antoine still distills rum on a nineteenth-century waterwheel. And at 12°N, Grenada sits below the main hurricane track, which makes September and October a real value window rather than a gamble.
Booking note: Prices and rates change with season and availability — confirm the current rate and exactly what is included before you book.
Quick Comparison: Our 6 Grenada Picks
| Resort | Area | From (AI/night) | AI status | Best for | Our rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spice Island Beach Resort | Grand Anse | $850 | True AI | Ultra-luxury, the island’s best hotel | 9.2 |
| Calabash Hotel and Villas | Lance aux Épines | $600 | Optional plan (BP/HB/AI) | Boutique luxury, foodie couples | 9.1 |
| Sandals Grenada | Pink Gin Beach | $550 | True AI | Couples, divers, adults-only | 8.9 |
| Coyaba Beach Resort | Grand Anse | $250 | True AI (Premium Plus tier optional) | Best value on the best beach | 8.2 |
| True Blue Bay Boutique Resort | True Blue | $180 room-only | Optional supplement (~$150pp/day) | Budget, divers, eco-minded families | 7.8 |
| Royalton Grenada | Magazine Beach | $220 | True AI | Families, kids’ club, biggest resort | 7.6 |
Prices are starting rates for two adults; True Blue Bay’s figure is the room-only rate before the all-inclusive supplement. Rates move sharply with season — see when to go below.
Grand Anse: The Best Beach and Three Very Different Resorts
If you only know one thing about Grenada, it should be Grand Anse — two miles of soft white sand curving north from the Point Salines peninsula toward St. George’s, with the capital’s harbor and the Carenage visible at the far end. It is genuinely one of the Caribbean’s great beaches, it is public along its full length, and there is a real neighborhood behind it: restaurants, dive shops, the Saturday market a short taxi ride away, and St. George’s University giving the strip a year-round pulse that most resort beaches lack.
Spice Island Beach Resort is the address everyone wants and, at 9.2, our highest-rated hotel on the island. Sixty-four oversized suites on eight acres of beachfront, run by the Hopkin family for decades and certified across the board — AAA Five Diamond, Small Luxury Hotels of the World and a Michelin Key — with entry-level Oleander Garden Suites at 620 square feet and Royal Collection villas reaching 1,500. The inclusions are unusually generous — premium drinks, all gratuities, green fees at the Grenada Golf & Country Club, water sports and beachfront yoga are all in the rate, so the number you book is close to the number you spend. The catch is variety: there are exactly two restaurants, Oliver and the Sea and Surf Terrace, and one modest pool. On a seven-night stay you will eat in the same room every night. From about $850 a night, rising past $1,100 in high season.
Coyaba Beach Resort is Spice Island’s neighbor and its opposite: 80 rooms across 5.5 acres of gardens, the same sand, the same sunset, and a true all-inclusive plan from around $250 a night. It is the resort we point most people toward when the luxury rates land badly, and at 8.2 it punches well above its price. Green fees, tennis, snorkeling and non-motorized water sports are included; the standard drinks tier is house pours, and the Premium Plus upgrade adds premium brands, a daily body treatment, a snorkel trip to the sculpture park and a PADI pool dive. The honest weakness is dinner at Arawakabana, which recent guests consistently describe as limited — though both restaurants and the kitchen were rebuilt in a 2026 expansion (completion pushed from July 31 to around September 15, 2026), so this is the one criticism that may date fastest.
The third Grand Anse name you will see is Silversands Grenada, with its 156-foot infinity pool. It is a beautiful hotel and it is not all-inclusive — the rate covers breakfast, soft drinks, coffee, beer and transfers, with dining à la carte. Same story at the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, which is a good-value beachfront bed-and-breakfast property, not an AI resort. Neither belongs on your all-inclusive shortlist.
Pink Gin Beach: Sandals and the Point Salines Cove
The Point Salines peninsula at the island’s southwestern tip holds the airport and, on a sheltered cove beside it, Sandals Grenada — the only mega-chain all-inclusive on the island and, at 8.9, the most complete resort here. Approximately 250 rooms and suites, ten restaurants, six bars and five pools spread across three hillside villages, top-shelf spirits, all taxes and gratuities, Wi-Fi and round-trip airport transfers baked into a rate that starts around $550 a night for two. The transfer is four minutes. You can land and be in a plunge pool inside half an hour.
Two things set it apart from other Sandals properties. First, the diving: two boat dives a day are genuinely included for certified divers, and Grenada is the best dive island in the entire chain — the Bianca C and the Underwater Sculpture Park are both offshore. Second, the top rooms. The Skypool Suites with private infinity-edge plunge pools, the thatched Rondoval Cottages and the Tunnel Loft Suites are among the best accommodations Sandals has built anywhere.
The caveat is internal inconsistency, and it matters. The older Pink Gin village rooms nearest the beach draw repeated 2025–2026 complaints about size, dated fittings and musty air, while the South Seas suites are superb. Our review’s line is worth repeating: book Club Level or above and it is an easy 9; book the cheapest category and you may wonder what you paid for. It is also couples-only, so solo travelers and friends traveling together cannot book at any price, and Pink Gin Beach is a cove — pretty, but a fraction of the scale of Grand Anse.
Magazine Beach: The Island’s Only Big Family Resort
A few minutes east of the airport on the same peninsula, Royalton Grenada, an Autograph Collection All-Inclusive Resort is the island’s largest hotel at 269 all-suite rooms and, more importantly, the only large family all-inclusive on Grenada. It has the Clubhouse Kids Club for ages 4–12, a splash pad, eight bars including the Dips swim-up bar and the Sands beach bar, 24-hour room service, and a true all-inclusive plan from around $220 a night. It is also a Marriott Autograph Collection property, so Bonvoy points and elite recognition apply — rare on an all-inclusive.
We rate it 7.6, and the gap between that and its price-value case is instructive. Four restaurants for 269 suites creates real reservation bottlenecks; 2025–2026 guests repeatedly report being unable to secure à la carte bookings at all, and the Gourmet Marché buffet draws consistent criticism against Royalton’s Mexican and Dominican properties. Maintenance complaints recur. The splash pad is a splash pad, not a water park. Book Royalton for the family logistics, the airport proximity and the price — not for five-star polish, whatever the Autograph badge implies.
Lance aux Épines: Grenada’s Quietest Luxury
Lance aux Épines is the residential peninsula just east of the airport — villas, mangroves, a yacht anchorage, and almost no through traffic. Calabash Hotel and Villas sits on a horseshoe of lawn around a sheltered beach here, and at 9.1 it is our second-highest-rated property on the island and the strongest argument in the Caribbean that all-inclusive does not have to mean big.
Thirty-six suites. Breakfast cooked to order and delivered to your own balcony every morning. Three genuine restaurants for a property that size — Rhodes for fine dining, Nori for Japanese, and The Beach Club for lunch and grill nights — plus nightly live music, included green fees, non-motorized water sports and round-trip airport transfers on direct bookings. It is Relais & Châteaux affiliated, ranked #2 Best All-Inclusive Resort in the Caribbean by U.S. News for 2026, and seven minutes from the runway. Four new Superior Deluxe Suites were completed in 2026, the first new rooms built here in 35 years; two Hillside Penthouse Suites were still listed as launching October 2026 at the time of writing.
The rate-plan warning is important here. All-inclusive at Calabash is one of three plans — breakfast (BP), half board (HB) and all-inclusive (AI). Book the wrong one and lunch and every drink lands on your bill. Drinks on the AI plan are local brands and house wine by the glass, bottled wine is extra, and inclusions are capped at one item per course per person. Also note: children under 12 are only accepted between December 21 and January 4, which rules Calabash out for most families. Check your confirmation says All Inclusive, not Breakfast Plan.
True Blue: The Cheapest Genuine All-Inclusive
True Blue Bay Boutique Resort sits on a working bay next to St. George’s University, and at 7.8 it is the most characterful hotel on this list — painted in every color available, family-run, seriously committed to sustainability, with four pools, an on-site House of Chocolate bakery and Wednesday Night Street Food at the Dodgy Dock. The Aquanauts dive center operates from the resort’s own dock, which for divers is worth more than any beach.
Two things must be clear before you book. All-inclusive here is an optional supplement of roughly $150 per person per day on top of a room-only rate that starts around $180 for two — so the sticker price is not the all-in price. And there is no beach: you are on a bay with a jetty and boats, and Grand Anse is a 10-minute shuttle that runs twice a day. Add in aircraft noise from the nearby airport and it is clearly a three-star product. But most rooms have kitchenettes, up to three hours of complimentary childcare a day is offered, and for families who plan to explore the island rather than park on sand, it is the sharpest value in Grenada.
What’s New in Grenada for 2026
- InterContinental Grenada Resort — La Sagesse. IHG’s first Grenada property, on the quieter southeast coast at La Sagesse, is slated to open in November 2026. It is expected to be a conventional luxury resort rather than an all-inclusive, so do not plan an AI trip around it until inclusions are published.
- Coyaba’s restaurant and kitchen expansion. Both restaurants and the kitchen were rebuilt during 2026, with completion pushed from July 31 to roughly September 15, 2026. If you are traveling before then, ask what dining is operating and what temporary arrangements are in place.
- Calabash’s first new rooms in 35 years. Four Superior Deluxe Suites completed in 2026; two Hillside Penthouse Suites were still listed as launching in October 2026, so the expansion is not fully finished.
- No closures. Unlike much of the northern Caribbean, Grenada goes into 2026 with no significant resort closures or rebrands on the all-inclusive side. Every property in our table is open and operating.
- Still not all-inclusive: Silversands Grenada and the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort. Both are listed under “all-inclusive” filters on some booking sites. Both are wrong.
Which Resort Is Right for You?
Best overall: Spice Island Beach Resort — 9.2, the best hotel on the island, on the best beach, with the most honest inclusions. Only if your budget starts at $850.
Best luxury alternative: Calabash Hotel and Villas — 9.1, and the better choice if you care more about food, calm and personal service than about beach scale. See also our best luxury all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean guide.
Best for couples and adults-only: Sandals Grenada — the only couples-only property on the island, and the only one with ten restaurants and five pools. Compare it against the field in our best adults-only all-inclusive resorts roundup.
Best for families: Royalton Grenada — realistically the only large resort here with a kids’ club and a splash pad. True Blue Bay is the budget family alternative if you will rent a car and explore. More options across the region in our best all-inclusive resorts for families guide.
Best value: Coyaba Beach Resort — beachfront Grand Anse on a true AI plan from $250. The single best price-to-position ratio on the island.
Best budget: True Blue Bay — from $180 room-only, though the AI supplement narrows the gap considerably once you add it.
Best for divers: Sandals Grenada if diving is genuinely included in your rate; True Blue Bay if you would rather pay per dive and have the operator on your doorstep.
When to Go: Grenada’s Seasons and Prices
Grenada’s dry season runs roughly January to May, and high-season pricing tracks it closely. Mid-December to mid-April is peak: expect Coyaba around $350–450, Royalton in the $260–320 range and Spice Island at $900–1,100. February and March school-holiday weeks sell through months in advance because the island’s total room stock is so small.
The critical geographic fact is that Grenada sits at 12°N, south of the main hurricane belt. It is not immune — Hurricane Ivan devastated the island in 2004 and nobody here has forgotten it — but statistically the island is struck far less often than Caribbean destinations further north, and the practical effect for travelers is that September and October are genuinely bookable rather than a coin flip. That is when rates are lowest, the island is quietest, and the rainforest is at its greenest. Some rain, mostly in short afternoon bursts, is the trade.
Sailing Week and Spicemas are the two calendar events worth planning around. Spicemas, Grenada’s carnival, falls in August and is a genuine highlight if you want the island at full volume — book early, because rooms tighten.
Booking lead times, from the reviews: three to four months for the dry season at the smaller properties, six to nine months for January–April at Sandals, eight to twelve months if you want a specific suite category at Spice Island, and close to a year for Christmas and New Year anywhere.
Getting There
Everything arrives at Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) on the Point Salines peninsula, which is the single greatest practical advantage of a Grenada vacation: transfer times are absurdly short. Sandals is four minutes away, Royalton five, Calabash seven, and Grand Anse ten to fifteen. Nowhere on the south coast is more than half an hour from the terminal. Compare that to the two-hour Punta Cana or Montego Bay slog and it is a genuinely different arrival day.
From the US, Grenada is served nonstop from Miami, New York and Atlanta by the major carriers, with seasonal and connecting service through Charlotte and other hubs; flight times run roughly three and a half hours from Miami and four and a half to five from New York. Caribbean Airlines connects via Trinidad, which is often the cheapest routing. From Canada, Toronto has direct seasonal service.
From the UK, Grenada is a long-standing winter-sun destination with direct service from London, typically routed with a brief touchdown at another island — total journey time is around nine to ten hours. This is why UK travelers should always price Virgin Atlantic Holidays, Kuoni, Tropical Sky and Travelbag against booking the hotel independently: packaged flight-plus-hotel deals to Grenada regularly beat the sum of the parts, particularly at Coyaba, Royalton and Calabash.
Transfers are included at Sandals and at Calabash on direct bookings. At Royalton, Coyaba, Spice Island and True Blue Bay they are usually not — but taxis are cheap given the distances, with fixed government rates posted at the airport.
Currency, Tipping and Practicalities
The currency is the East Caribbean dollar (XCD), pegged to the US dollar at roughly 2.70 to 1. US dollars are accepted almost everywhere, though you will often get change in EC — expect a slightly unfavorable rounding. Cards are fine at resorts and most restaurants; carry EC cash for the Saturday market, taxis and rum shops.
On tipping, Grenada is inconsistent, and the difference lands on your final bill. Spice Island and Sandals include all gratuities in the rate — meaningful money over a week at those prices. Calabash, Coyaba, Royalton and True Blue Bay typically apply a service charge and leave discretionary tipping to you. Our all-inclusive tipping guide covers the norms across the region.
On alcohol, every property here includes drinks on its AI plan, but the tier varies enormously: Sandals pours top-shelf, Spice Island pours premium, and Calabash, Coyaba and True Blue Bay pour house brands and wine by the glass with bottled wine charged extra. Grenada’s rum is excellent and cheap, so the house tier is less of a compromise here than it would be elsewhere — but read our guide on what all-inclusive alcohol really includes before you assume.
Entry is straightforward for US, UK, Canadian and EU travelers: a passport valid for the length of stay and a return ticket, with no visa required for standard tourist visits. Check current requirements before travel, as arrival forms and formalities change.
Getting around is easy and worth doing. Local minibuses run the south coast constantly for a couple of EC dollars, taxis operate on fixed routes, and rental cars require a temporary local permit issued on the spot. Drive on the left.
Who Should NOT Book All-Inclusive in Grenada
Be honest with yourself about three things.
If you want a big resort experience, Grenada has exactly two options — Sandals and Royalton — and only one of them takes children. Everything else is 30 to 80 rooms. If your idea of a vacation involves a water park, a theater show and a lazy river, book Punta Cana or Jamaica instead and come to Grenada another year.
If you plan to eat off property, all-inclusive is poor value here. Grenada has a real restaurant scene — around Grand Anse, in St. George’s, and along the south coast — and it is affordable. Paying $150 per person per day for board you will not eat makes no sense. A room-only stay at the Radisson, Silversands or True Blue Bay, spending your evenings out, is often the better trip.
If dining variety matters more than anything, recalibrate. Only Sandals offers a genuine dine-around. Spice Island has two restaurants, Calabash three, Coyaba two, Royalton four for 269 suites. That is the trade for an island this small and this uncommercialized.
Grenada All-Inclusive FAQ
Does Grenada have all-inclusive resorts?
Yes, but fewer than most Caribbean islands, and the definition matters. Four resorts are all-inclusive by default — Sandals Grenada, Spice Island Beach Resort, Royalton Grenada and Coyaba Beach Resort. Two more, Calabash and True Blue Bay, sell all-inclusive as a rate plan or supplement you must actively select. Laluna and Mount Cinnamon offer optional AI meal plans on boutique villa products. Silversands and the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort are not all-inclusive despite occasionally appearing under AI filters on booking sites.
What is the best all-inclusive resort in Grenada?
Spice Island Beach Resort, which we rate 9.2 — 64 oversized suites directly on Grand Anse, family-owned for decades, with premium drinks, gratuities, golf and water sports all in the rate from about $850 a night. If you want boutique intimacy and better food over beach scale, Calabash at 9.1 is the closest alternative from about $600. For the most complete resort experience — ten restaurants, five pools, included diving — Sandals Grenada at 8.9 from about $550.
Is Grenada expensive for all-inclusive?
At the top, yes: Grenada’s luxury tier starts where most Caribbean luxury tops out, with Spice Island from about $850 and Calabash from about $600. But the middle is reasonable — Royalton from around $220 and Coyaba from around $250 are competitive with mid-range Jamaica or St. Lucia, and both are true all-inclusive rather than optional-package pricing. The island is expensive at the top and fair in the middle, with very little at the bottom.
Are there adults-only all-inclusive resorts in Grenada?
One properly: Sandals Grenada, which is couples-only throughout — so no solo travelers and no friend groups either. Calabash is effectively adults-only for most of the year, accepting children under 12 only between December 21 and January 4. Royalton’s Diamond Club is a premium upgrade tier with its own lounge and perks, not an adults-only section — the resort is a family property throughout. Our best adults-only all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean guide has the wider field.
Which Grenada resort is best for families?
Royalton Grenada, by default and by design — 269 all-suite rooms, the Clubhouse Kids Club for ages 4–12, a splash pad and eight bars, from around $220 a night, five minutes from the airport. It is not a polished five-star, but no other large resort on the island offers a kids’ club at all. True Blue Bay is the budget alternative with kitchenettes and complimentary childcare, though it has no beach. Spice Island accepts families but has no kids’ club, and Sandals and Calabash are effectively closed to them.
Is Grenada in the hurricane belt?
Grenada sits at approximately 12°N, south of the main hurricane track, and is hit substantially less often than islands further north. It is not immune — Hurricane Ivan caused catastrophic damage in 2004 — but the practical result is that the September–October low season is a reasonable bet here in a way it is not in the Bahamas or Turks and Caicos. That window also brings the year’s lowest rates.
Is diving included at Grenada’s all-inclusive resorts?
Only at Sandals Grenada, where two boat dives a day are genuinely included for certified divers with equipment. Everywhere else, diving is arranged through partner operators and charged separately — Coyaba’s Premium Plus tier includes a PADI pool dive and a sculpture-park snorkel trip but not open-water diving, and True Blue Bay has the Aquanauts dive center on its own dock but excludes diving from the AI plan. Grenada’s headline sites are the 600-foot Bianca C wreck and the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park.
Final Recommendations
If money is not the constraint, book Spice Island Beach Resort and accept that you will eat in the same two rooms all week. It is the best hotel on the island, on the best beach, run by people who have been running it for a generation, and the gratuities-included rate means the checkout number matches the booking number.
If you want the same quality with better food and more quiet, book Calabash — and triple-check the rate plan says All Inclusive.
If you are a couple who wants variety, want to dive, and would rather never think about a bill, Sandals Grenada is the most complete resort here. Book Club Level or above; the entry categories are the weak link.
If you are traveling with children, Royalton Grenada is realistically your only large-resort option, and at $220 a night it is honest value provided you calibrate expectations away from the Autograph badge.
And if you want the smartest trip on this island rather than the most expensive one, book Coyaba Beach Resort on Grand Anse, add the Premium Plus tier if the spa treatments appeal, and spend the difference on Belmont Estate, River Antoine, a Carriacou day trip and the Bianca C. Grenada rewards leaving the gate more than almost any island in the region.
Comparing islands? See our guides to the best all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and neighboring destinations like St. Lucia, Barbados and Antigua — or check current all-inclusive deals before you book.