The Sugar Mill hotel in the British Virgin Islands

The intimate boutique hotel, The Sugar Mill, in the British Virgin Islands has been named in Travel and Leisure magazines 16th annual World’s Best Awards readers’ survey as one of the 500 best hotels in the world. Readers rated properties on five critera: accommodations/ambience, treatment, service, food and value.  Travel and Leisure describes the Sugar Mill Hotel this way: “Owned by longtime food and travel writers Jefferson and Jinx Morgan since 1982, the Sugar Mill Hotel is one of Tortola’s best hotels. Built in 1640 as an oxen-powered rum distillery, the historic cottage colony has all the thoughtful touches of a traditional Caribbean inn—island-inspired watercolors hand-painted by Jinx herself, lush tropical gardens, and 23 ocean-view rooms with balconies and kitchenettes—plus plenty more that most hotels don’t have. Namely, an über-romantic restaurant, housed in a candlelit stone building where rum was once boiled, and a small private beach known for some of the best snorkeling and surfing on Tortola.”