GOING GREEN

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Protecting the Environment

Coconut Court Beach Hotel was awar­ded a GOLD award from the Travelife Foundation for Sustainable Tourism in 2011. Prior to this dis­tinc­tion Coconut Court had been one of the first hotels on the island to meet the cri­teria for becom­ing a cer­ti­fied Green Globe Hotel. Coconut Court is com­mit­ted to min­im­iz­ing the impact of our busi­ness on the envir­on­ment that we inhabit. We con­tinue to pur­sue ini­ti­at­ives and pro­cesses that pro­tect and pre­serve the envir­on­ment and we ask our guests to join in our efforts to help pro­tect and improve the fra­gile eco-systems upon which we are so depend­ent.

Energy Management

•   Hot water is provided by solar pan­els loc­ated on the rooftops of the hotel. In addi­tion to this nat­ural heat­ing provided by the Caribbean sun­shine we have installed nat­ural gas heat­ers.

•   All guest rooms are equipped with air con­di­tion­ing units but we ask our guests to keep all win­dows and doors closed when the unit is in oper­a­tion and to turn off the unit when leav­ing their guest room. The remote con­trol is pro­grammed to an optimal set­ting only.  Each guest room is equipped with a ceil­ing fan.

•   A notice in the room encour­ages our guests to turn off lights, etc when they are not in their room.

•   Energy sav­ing light bulbs are installed through­out the hotel prop­erty.

•   Low wattage light­ing is used on guest room bal­conies and on the beach­front to limit dis­or­i­ent­a­tion of Hawksbill sea turtles that nest on the hotel beach from July through November.

•   Guests are encour­aged to limit their impact on the hotel laun­dry to allow us to con­serve water and elec­tri­city. This is done by chan­ging bath tow­els only when reques­ted and bed sheets every three days.

Chemical Husbandry

•   Minimal usage of laun­dry and clean­ing sup­plies that con­tain harm­ful phos­phates and chlor­ine.

•   Detergents used in the laun­dry, kit­chens and house­keep­ing depart­ments are envir­on­ment­ally friendly.

•   We have inten­tion­ally removed white linen table cloths and nap­kins at break­fast and lunch to reduce laun­dry usage.

•   Daily mon­it­or­ing of pool chor­ine con­tent and Ph accord­ing to HCCP reg­u­la­tions, allows as little chlor­ine to be used as pos­sible.

The Beach & The Sea

•   In 1991 a break­wa­ter was built in the sea dir­ectly in front of the hotel to min­im­ize erosion to the beach.

•   Eighteen pat­en­ted ‘reef balls’ were con­struc­ted and sunk in the swim­ming lagoon to encour­age trop­ical reef fish. These reef balls have cre­ated an arti­fi­cial man-made reef.

•   Organic fish food is avail­able at the beach bar for snorkel­ing enthu­si­asts.

•   The beach is raked by hand daily. No auto­mated tract­ors are used to destroy/disturb the beach envir­on­ment.

•   Coconut trees (30 foot root sys­tem) have been planted on the beach to reduce beach erosion.

•   Beach Almond trees were planted on the beach to offer nat­ural shade for guests.

Facilities

•   50,000 gal­lons of water is stored in an under­ground reser­voir and is used to flush toi­lets and irrig­ate the hotel gar­dens.

•   Plastic and glass bottles are recycled loc­ally. All other garbage is col­lec­ted by a registered Governmental firm to ensure cor­rect dis­posal.

•   Plastic straws are served with drinks and cock­tails on request only.