Posted by: travadmin on Dec 03, 2003 – 03:53 PM
newsandinfo Imagine living the life of a billionaire casually spending ‘a million dollars here’ and ‘several hundred thousand there’ on the luxuries of life, making the average person cringe.
But not all billionaires are spendthrifts, only some, closer to the ilk of Microsoft owner Bill Gates, go out their way and way out of their country to acquire the luxuries products.
In any event, they turn to the “Robb Report” first to see these items showcased.
The “Robb Report” is comprehensive magazine featuring information on a wide variety of luxury products and services and is recognized worldwide as the authority and trendsetter in the luxury industry.
The expensive magazine, sold for about $10 in the United States and $15 in The Bahamas, often focuses on products and services of the highest quality (and cost) available for those living on the high end.
Planes, automobiles, property, yachts, houses, jewellery as well as ridiculously expensive men and women’s clothing are some of the items featured. Rarely would one find an item advertised under $100,000 in the magazine.
So what does all of this have to do with Graycliff’s cigars? Well, its cigars have been advertised as being among the finest in the world in the magazine. It referred to them as one of its “21 ultimate gifts”. The Robb Report’s article on the cigars appears on page 101 of its Dec. 2003 issue.
Graycliff owner Enrico Garzaroli, in an interview with The Guardian said that he was extremely excited about the article pointing out that he would continue to work hard to ensure that all facets of his resort, the hotel, restaurant and cigar company remain top-notch and unsurpassed by similar services offered at five-star resorts around the world.
“To get into the Robb Report, you have to be really good and to be considered a gift in it, it is like the ultimate of the ultimate. It means you are the best of the best in the world,” he said.
Mr. Garzaroli also said the resort has been featured before in various publications but has never been referred to as a gift in a magazine for the elite.
The article introduces the cigars by saying that one can visit the Dominican Republic and return home with boxes full of cigars or take a risk and travel to Cuba for them. It added however, that no cigar quest would yield a bounty comparable to the ones from the Graycliff Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.
The guests would have to create the cigars themselves after taking daily lessons from the resort’s cigar master, Avelino Lara, who would teach the cigar students about the intricacies of the tobacco plant.
In addition to the cigars, the article speaks highly of Graycliff itself. It says the resort features a 175,000-bottle wine cellar, stocked with exceedingly rare vintages and spirits. The food, inclusive of a seven-course meal, is described as decadent and plentiful. The property’s grounds are described as splendid.
The attractions of Nassau also received free advertisement in the article as they were promoted in a seven-day vacation package for two. It said the vacation at Graycliff would include golf at one of the islands four golf courses, spa treatments, and a swim with dolphins at Dolphin Encounters and a seaplane excursion to a secluded Bahama cay.
The Graycliff Hotel was built in the 1700s by the privateer John Howard Graysmith. It was eventually established in 1844 as Nassau’s first inn, and has since developed the reputation of luring the rich, the famous and the royal to Nassau and The Bahamas.
By Mindell Small, The Nassau Guardian