"Boutique hotels" which is best and why?

[Ginger]

coral gardens

grace bay club

point grace

sands

and where is a map to show where each is situated along the beach...which is near palms etc.....any map with all the places on it thanks!

[GCSandy]

Check out www.wherewhenhow.com it's the online publication of the T&C magazine and I believe there's a map on there showing where the different resorts are.
Sandy

[KVR]

The Sibonne is a boutique hotel with 26 rooms right on Grace Bay Beach. We stayed there last month. It was very nice.

The Sands is next door on the right and the Palms is two down on the other side.

This on-line map helped us when planning our trip:

http://www.aquamarinebeachhouses.com/map.htm

We cut through Hemmingways at the Sands most everyday to get to the sidewalk and walk to Salt Mills. Unless you have kids or like to be around them, it would not be the best choice. It looked like a smaller version of the Beaches Resort.

[KarenS]

There's a list of hotels featuring the one's you mentioned at:
http://www.caribbean-on-line.com/island ... p?code=PLS

The list has map grid references (ie., Coral Gardens (E-8))...these grid references apply to the map of Providenciales located at:
http://www.caribbean-on-line.com/islands/tc/prmap.shtml

[Ginger]

so much
deciding now between coral gardens and villa renaissance or point grace or grace bay club

[grace]

http://www.wiol.com/turks-caicos/map.html

also try

http://www.thegecko.tc

The gecko site is a shuttle bus and takes you around the island if you don't want to rent a car but it has a map of the hotels and some very useful info. It will give you an idea where everything is located.

Also check out the Alexander right next to the Palms. Coral Gardens is nice because you can snorkel right in front of your hotel. A very healthy reef.
Sands has a great restaurant Hemminways.

Have fun. Grace Bay is beautiful, the water is the awesome. Plan to take a water excursion. Provo is all about the beach and water with some great restaurants.

[SL10]

We think the Turks and Caicos Club is a great boutique hotel. The rest are condos. Good location, very nice staff and great beach.