Jekyll Island Resort break

Jekyll Island Club Resort

Our rating: First Class

Rooms

Choose from Clubhouse Queen rooms, Traditional King rooms, Traditional Double Double rooms and Deluxe rooms. All rooms have air-conditioning, minibar, hairdryer, tea and coffee making facilities, cable TV and wireless internet.

Location

Nestled off the coast midway between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida, this is a subtropical island with beautiful Atlantic Ocean beaches and also intracoastal waterways to explore. You can find other restaurants and bars in the vicinity on Jekyll Island.

Food and drink

The elegant dining room continues its long tradition of gourmet cuisine whilst the alfresco Courtyard at Crane Cottage offers a menu reminiscent of northern Californian wine country. There are also lighter dining options available at Café Solterra, the poolside bar and beach pavilion.

Families

There are no specific family facilities here but plenty of outdoors activities to keep the children happy.

Facilities and activities

There’s an impressive range of facilities including an outdoor pool, croquet club, spa with a full menu of treatments, fitness suite, sea turtle center and the nearby beach. Guests can choose from horse riding, hiring bikes, and dolphin watching trips which depart from the private pier. For golfers, there’s a putting green, mini-golf and three, eighteen hole, golf courses on the island.

Accessibility

As the main buildings of the hotel were built over a century ago, not all rooms have wheelchair access. However, porters provide ready assistance for carrying heavy luggage up and down staircases.

Environmental and social responsibility

Jekyll Island Club Resort subscribes to the Project Planet program of advising guests about the excessive water wastage caused by washing towels and bedding every day.

Local excursions

The hotel can help arrange memorable excursions such as fishing trips, dolphin cruises, casino boat cruises and shrimp boat trips such as those in the film Forrest Gump. There is also a water park near the hotel, with complimentary shuttle transfers offered.