1/14/16, 12:50 PM St. Kitts: From Tarmac to Porsche Cayenne In 60 Seconds - Forbes Page 1 of 5 http://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2016/01/14/st-kitts-from-tarmac-to-porsche-cayenne-in-60-seconds/print/ COUPLES RESORTS® JAMAICA Best All Inclusive Couples Resort. $100 Secures Your Dream Vacation. http://onforb.es/1n27vXn LIFESTYLE 1/14/2016 @ 10:25AM 220 views St. Kitts: From Tarmac to Porsche Cayenne In 60 Seconds It all starts when you land at the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in St. Kitts, a small Caribbean island making up one half of the nation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies – a new hotspot for luxury and adventure. If you’re flying commercial, as most of us are, just imagine that as you descend the airline’s iron steps, you notice a white Porsche Cayenne waiting just off to the side of the tarmac. As you head closer, you notice a smiling Kittitian holding a welcome sign with your name. Yes, your name! You diverge from the mass of other airplane passengers you just spent several close and uncomfortable hours with because a luxurious Porsche Cayenne chariot is there to save you. This is how a YU Lounge arrival starts. Couples Resorts® Jamaica Best All Inclusive Couples Resort. $100 Secures Your Dream Vacation. Breanna Wilson Contributor Covering travel, I’ve never met an adventure I didn’t like. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
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St. Kitts: From Tarmac to PorscheCayenne In 60 SecondsIt all starts when you land at the Robert L.Bradshaw International Airport in St.Kitts, a small Caribbean island making upone half of the nation of St. Kitts andNevis in the West Indies – a new hotspotfor luxury and adventure. If you’re flyingcommercial, as most of us are, justimagine that as you descend the airline’siron steps, you notice a white PorscheCayenne waiting just off to the side of thetarmac. As you head closer, you notice asmiling Kittitian holding a welcome signwith your name. Yes, your name! Youdiverge from the mass of other airplanepassengers you just spent several closeand uncomfortable hours with because aluxurious Porsche Cayenne chariot isthere to save you. This is how a YULounge arrival starts.
Couples Resorts®JamaicaBest All Inclusive Couples Resort. $100Secures Your Dream Vacation.
Breanna Wilson Contributor
Covering travel, I’ve never met an adventure I didn’t like.Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
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YU Lounge’s Porsche Cayenne picking up passengers from an AmericanAirlines flight. (Credit: Breanna Wilson)
Once you’ve settled into the comfortablePorsche seats, and your carry-ons havebeen neatly tucked away in the back of theSUV completely out of sight, you’re off,separating yourself even further from theairplane comrades you were so eager toescape from anyways. Oh, how fast youare to ditch the travelers you thought youstill had a few more minutes of closeimpersonal bonding with. Every travelerfor themselves, right?
A short drive west of the main terminaland you’ve officially arrived. Welcome toYU Lounge, the airport’s secret privateterminal for both commercial and privatejet passengers. You’ll soon refer to this asheaven.
Stepping out of the Porsche, you’reescorted right into a breezy, beachy,wood-paneled “terminal,” a word you’lluse loosely here since YU Lounge is morelike a hotel lobby than anything you’ll findin an airport. You’ll quickly find a flute ofVeuve Clicquot alongside a mix of localtreats calling your name. You’ll politely beasked for your passport. Handing it over,the YU Lounge staff will handle the rest. If
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you checked a bag, no problem. Justdescribe the bag to the staff and they’ll goand fetch it from baggage claim for you.
The interior of the YU Lounge arrivals terminal. (Credit: YU Lounge)
While you relax and enjoy the start ofyour Caribbean adventure, the rest of yourairline compatriots are standing in whatyou can only assume is a painfully longline to get through passport control.Something that you’re not going to knowanything about in St. Kitts considering it’salready been handled by the YU Loungestaff for you.
Once your endless glass of champagne isfinished (it’s all you can drink here), yourplate is left with not even a crumb in sightand you’ve soaked in all of the free Wi-Fithat you can handle, you can leave the YULounge knowing that you took fulladvantage of an offering that not manyothers can say they have or ever will.
After what may be the most relaxingairport experience ever, it’s time to jumpin your hotel transfer and bid a sadfarewell to the YU Lounge staff becauseadventures on St. Kitts await. But don’tworry, you’ll see them again when youdepart. The process then will be just assmooth and painless as this one thanks totheir own private security setup.
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YU Lounge’s private security checkpoint for departing passengers.(Credit: YU Lounge)
YU Lounge has teamed up with hotels likethe Four Seasons Nevis, Kittitian Hill andthe St. Kitts Marriott to include theirservices as part of guest packages. With anew Park Hyatt St. Kitts, Embassy Suitesby Hilton, Radisson Hotel and Koi Resortall in development, other hotels willpresumably team up with YU Lounge togive their guests this same premiumexperience.
YU Lounge has a second private terminalin Mauritius. The cost to arrive and departfrom YU Lounge without a hotel bundle is$150 per person, per way.
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