This World-Famous Caribbean Beach Just Hits Different, With Brilliant Turquoise Water and Endless Perfect Moments

There’s a particular moment when Grenada’s Grand Anse Beach comes together. It’s just before sunset. Everyone’s here. The joggers on their beach runs. The visitors bobbing with their rum punches. Families out for walks. Everlasting liming.

There’s a rare sense that Grand Anse isn’t just a beach — it’s a whole neighborhood, drawing every segment of Grenadian society and every manner of visitor to a kind of sandy town square. 

Sure, the water is perfect; the sand is soft but also walkable. It’s magnificent. But there’s more. 

I remember feeling it the first time I came to Grand Anse some 13 years ago — it was different than any beach I had encountered. It was beautiful, sure. Stunning. But it was alive. And that’s been true on every subsequent visit.

The energy you encounter on Grenada’s signature stretch of sand is hard to articulate, but you know it when you feel it. 

There’s a kind of coalescence: everyone, everything comes together, the natural world, the people. It’s magical. 

In the morning, it’s almost impossibly calm, with just a few sand-seekers on their strolls. In the afternoon, the pulse rises, with more boats cruising around, and more visitors making their way to the waves, whether they’ve ventured from different corners of the island or stumbled onto the sand from places like the Radisson or the Spice Island Beach Resort (both of which I’ve stayed at and loved.)

And then you hit that perfect convergence where everyone is here and, at the risk of sounding cliche, you find a kind of togetherness, a sort of uniform satisfaction that only beach like this can engender. 

I just love this beach. I think about certain parts of the Caribbean, certain coastlines where it’s a little harder to leave the water, where the pull is that much stronger. Grand Anse is one of them; you venture out into the blue, peer around at the sand and the green hills and you know you’ve reached a special moment, where you don’t want it to end. 

But here’s the thing about Grand Anse. There are moments like that all day long. 

How to get to Grand Anse? This is the signature beach in Grenada, which has strong air access from markets like New York, Miami and, soon, Atlanta (with Delta’s planned flight this winter).