MSC Cruises Is Constructing a New Personal Island in The Bahamas

One cruise firm is creating its personal luxurious location for its vacationers by making a complete new island.

MSC Cruises, the world’s third-largest cruise line, already owns Ocean Cay Marine Protect in The Bahamas. The factitious island was first constructed within the late Sixties and MSC Cruises, which holds a 100-year lease, redeveloped it in 2015 as a luxurious vacation spot. Now, the corporate is working to develop a brand new island that can be a few third of the scale of Ocean Cay.

Recognized informally for now as “Little Cay,” the brand new island can be constructed on a pure sandbank. The undertaking is within the early levels of improvement and is being undertaken in cooperation with The Bahamas. 

“This presents a possibility for us to additional develop an unique luxurious expertise for our visitors,” Sidney Sterling, director of media relations with MSC Cruises USA, stated in a press release shared with Journey + Leisure. “This second island will keep true to the ethos of Ocean Cay, providing an expertise that connects visitors to nature, pristine seashores, and the great thing about the ocean plus luxurious amenities and water options. Extra info can be shared because it turns into obtainable.”

Pierfrancesco Vago, an MSC government chairman, added in a press release: “It will supply a unique expertise for the completely different manufacturers. We design the island to be an unimaginable luxurious expertise. We’re very proud and really joyful to have developed once more one thing from nothing like this so we do not spoil the prevailing paradise.”

Little Cay will supply a brand new non-public unique luxurious expertise to cruisers with MSC. The Bahamas is a well-liked spot for non-public islands, and Little Cay will be a part of others that embrace Royal Caribbean’s CocoCay, Carnival’s Half Moon Cay, Montage Resorts & Resorts’ Montage Cay, and Disney Cruise Line’s Castaway Cay.

On April 10, MSC Cruises opened its new Marine Conservation Middle on Ocean Cay as a useful resource for biologists, scientists, college students, and guests to the island. Ocean Cay has eight seashores on its lengthy shores.