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The Reefs Hotel & Club, commonly known as The Reefs, is a luxury four-star resort hotel in Southampton Parish, Bermuda, located next to the Sonesta Beach Resort and not far from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. It is considered one of the top hotels in the Caribbean and Atlantic by prestigious publications such as Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure.HistoryBuilt around the ruins of a 1680 farmhouse at Christian Bay, Southampton, and originally owned by Marmaduke Dando, The Reefs Beach Club, as it was known, opened its doors in 1947. It was the first cabana-style beach resort in Bermuda.With its distinctive white Bermudian roofs – Mark Twain called them the "icing on the cake" – and its salmon pink walls, The Reefs quickly became a popular resort on Bermuda's south shore. In 1972 it reportedly had 43 rooms.Between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, the original cabanas were demolished and replaced by new guest accommodations, the resort's first pool and updated dining venues. A now popular venue for weddings, the two-tiered Caso's Point deck that juts out over the Atlantic Ocean was inaugurated in August 2000 and rebuilt in 2004.A $5 million major renovation began in the early 2000s, which added 11 suites, in-room entertainment and Bermuda's first freshwater infinity pool. The renovations also included updates to the dining venues.In 2007, The Reefs celebrated its 60th anniversary with the commencement of $55 million in renovations for new dining, new spa and new private Club residences. In April 2008, the new lobby, expanded bar and lounge with a new terrace opened. This was followed by the opening of two new restaurants – Royston's and Ocean Echo – that summer. In July 2009, the Club residences and the new La Serena Spa opened.
