Best Sustainable Hotels, Resorts and Eco Lodges in Turks and Caicos
Best Sustainable Resorts, Villas and Eco Friendly Stays in Turks and Caicos
The 6 best places to stay in Turks and Caicos are sustainable and all run on solar power, native island planting and single use plastic bans. From Grace Bay on Providenciales to quiet South Caicos these resorts and private island hideaways are top rated for low-impact eco friendly comfort that keeps guests coming back to swim over reefs their hosts are actively helping restore.
How we decide the best place to stay in Turks and Caicos
Each top rated stay in Turks and Caicos is hand picked and checked for sustainability features.
Turks and Caicos is a low lying chain with no rivers and almost no fresh groundwater, so the first thing we look at is how a property powers and waters itself in a place where both are scarce. Salterra answers that on South Caicos with a 400 kilowatt solar power array built with FortisTCI, the first solar project on the island, which draws more than half the resort’s electricity from the sun rather than imported diesel.
With no aquifer to tap, the smartest stays catch what falls instead of trucking it in. Pine Cay runs its entire low impact private island on rainwater harvesting, a closed system of water conservation that suits a 800 acre island with just a handful of cottages and no through traffic.
Because nearly everything on these islands arrives by boat or plane, where the kitchen sources its food tells you a lot about a resort’s footprint. Wymara Resort + Villas leans on the sea on its doorstep with a deliberate ocean to table kitchen at Indigo, built on regional ingredients and local sourcing rather than long haul imports.
Around these reefs the line between hospitality and conservation is thin, so we credit the properties putting real money behind the marine life that draws guests here. COMO Parrot Cay is certified EarthCheck Silver, composts over 16,500 kg of food waste a year and runs a marine conservation programme with the NGO Roots2Reef tagging eagle rays, oceanic whitetip sharks and southern stingrays.
The private island resorts, Grace Bay beachfront resorts and family owned villas on this list of best places to stay in Turks and Caicos have proven they are making a real effort to protect the island while taking care of its guests.
If Beautiful by Nature is just the opening line of your Caribbean story, our guide to the best sustainable hotels across the Caribbean gathers the whole region in one place, or drift west to the eco stays of the Bahamas, our nearest neighbours up the chain, south to the Dominican Republic and further west again to the Cayman Islands.
Top Picks, Where To Stay in Turks and Caicos
- Ocean Club Resorts: First Green Globe certified resort on the islands
- COMO Parrot Cay: EarthCheck certified, female owned private island
- Salterra: Solar powered, locally owned on South Caicos
Pine Cay is a low impact private island resort in Turks and Caicos run almost entirely without cars, where a solar panel field, rainwater harvesting and a fleet of electric golf carts keep the footprint light.
The island has banned single use plastic, uses Dark Sky and eco friendly beach lighting, and partners on the Caicos Pine Recovery Project to save the country’s threatened native pine alongside the iguana sanctuary work spanning neighbouring Water Cay and Little Water Cay.
Harbour Club Villas & Marina is a small family owned eco hideaway of six stand alone villas on the quiet south side of Providenciales, with the owners living on site for over twenty years between Flamingo Lake and the marina.
The grounds are planted with native species like Turk’s head cactus, joewood and sapodilla that draw hummingbirds and bananaquits, and the housekeeping runs on plain vinegar instead of harsh chemicals.
Ocean Club Resorts is a Grace Bay beachfront resort that in 2021 became the first property in Turks and Caicos to earn Green Globe certification, passing the programme's rigorous eco audits.
It has since rolled out solar panels at Ocean Club East with Ocean Club West to follow, alongside LED lighting, water and energy conservation programmes and the removal of plastic straws and Styrofoam in favour of paper.
Salterra is an eco conscious luxury resort on quiet South Caicos that now draws more than half its power from renewables, including a 400 kilowatt solar array with FortisTCI, the first solar project on the island, projected to generate 700,000 kilowatt hours a year.
It produces its own water by reverse osmosis, landscapes with native sea grape, thatch palm and gumbo limbo to cut irrigation, and helped found the South Caicos Coral Reef Consortium for reef restoration while training local fishermen as charter guides.
Wymara Resort + Villas is a Green Globe certified oceanfront resort on Grace Bay Beach in Providenciales, with 94 suites and a deliberate ocean to table kitchen at its restaurant Indigo built on regional ingredients.
The resort has stripped out single use plastics resort wide, swapping in wooden key cards and refill stations, and its guest end of stay donation programme has channelled tens of thousands of dollars into the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund for coral restoration.
COMO Parrot Cay is a female founded private island resort in Turks and Caicos, opened in 1998 by COMO's Christina Ong, and certified EarthCheck Silver in 2024.
The island composts over 16,500 kg of food waste a year, is shifting its landscaping to indigenous plants and reuses crushed glass in construction, while its marine science team runs a conservation programme with the NGO Roots2Reef that tags and tracks eagle rays, oceanic whitetip sharks and southern stingrays.
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