It seems typical for luxury resorts to close for an extended period of time, occasionally. Although they would never admit it, they seize the opportunity to 'purge' the staff of bad apples that could never be dismissed under current labor laws and retrain new staff - who are initially super grateful for their jobs.

And renovations can be done with no considerations for guests.

The successful luxury resort model, such as LDB, Caneel Bay and Peter Island can survive an extensive closure, and thrive when they reopen. Resorts like the BEYC need the cash flow and must do the same during their brief seasonal closure, and throughout the off season.

Usually the luxury resorts rely upon phoney-baloney 'extensive damage' caused by a tropical storm or a brush with a hurricane (a few coconut palms fell over) to inspire their closure.

There wasn't the convenience of that this year.