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Sandy Lane is a luxury five-starSandy Lane, True 5 StarsSandy Lane - Barbados, Caribbean - 5 Star Luxury Resort, Luxury Travel Magazine42 hotels gain Forbes Five-Star status, Nancy Trejos, 22 Feb. 2016, USA TODAY beachfront resort close to Holetown and Paynes Bay on the island of Barbados. Sandy Lane was opened in 1961 by Ronald Tree, a former British politician, as a luxury hotel and golf course on what had been a sugar plantation. In 1998, the hotel was put up for sale by Granada plc, and five Irish businessmen, including J. P. McManus, Dermot Desmond and John Magnier, bought it. The original resort was then demolished in a three-year, $450 million upgrade and renovation. Read more on Wikipedia
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