Starting at US$2,500 a night for a one-bed option, Nobu Beach Inn will feature 17 bungalows totalling 36 rooms
If skiing isn’t on the cards this winter, a luxurious beach vacation on Barbuda wouldn’t be too shabby either—especially if it means a vacation the Robert De Niro way.
Not just an Academy Award-winning actor, the co-founder of Nobu Hospitality and New York’s The Greenwich Hotel is launching a new resort on Antigua’s smaller and less developed sister island. What was once home to The K Club, a resort that the late Princess Diana frequented, is now the Nobu Beach Inn that’s scheduled to open early next year.
Starting at US$2,500 a night for a one-bed option, the resort will feature 17 bungalows totalling 36 rooms, a spa with a view, an open-air gym and more. Designed in-house, with De Niro and partners Daniel Shamoon and James Packer as driving forces, the project prioritises Barbuda’s deep-rooted respect for nature with renewable energy and community-driven initiatives. Low-density architecture also incorporates natural materials for seamless indoor-outdoor experience.
It is all part of a larger development called The Beach Club, which includes Nobu Barbuda, a beachfront restaurant that currently attracts day-trippers from other isles, and the 25-turnkey Nobu Beach Inn Residences, private homes that should be ready by 2027. Taking a leaf out of the Soho Farmhouse and Como Shambhala playbook, the residential villas will be the definition of perfect imperfection, with luxury that, as De Niro has put it, will be a “million miles from chandeliers and endless marble.”
