Bermuda Travel Vacation

With its picturesque setting and only a few hours by air from Northeast America's major cities, Bermuda is a perfect travel vacation destination for North Americans for a weekend getaway.

Bermuda is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 650 miles east off the coast of North Carolina State of the United States. It has land area about 58.8 square kilometers, about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC.

Bermuda was first settled in 1609 by shipwrecked English colonists headed for Virginia. Tourism to the Bermuda Island to escape North American winters first developed in Victorian times. As a British Crown colony today, Bermuda enjoys one of the highest per capita incomes in the world (equal to that of the US), having successfully provided financial services for international firms and luxury resort hotels and tourist facilities for 360,000 visitors annually. The tourist industry, which accounts for an estimated 28% of GDP, attracts 84% of its business from North America.

Bermuda has 64,935 (July 2004 estimate) population, including 58% black, 36% white, 6% other. English is the official language in Bermuda.

Bermudian dollar (BMD) per US dollar exchange rate is 1.0000. Bermuda has a modern, fully automatic telephone system and about 34,500 Internet users (2003 estimate).

Bermuda offers visitors pink sand beaches along the South Shore, historic St. George, museums and craft shops, seven golf courses with turquoise ocean view, 100 tennis courts, 400 shipwrecks, and colorful reefs for scuba diving.

The Fairmont Southhampton Princess Hotel is located on South Shore Road on the southeast end of Bermuda. The Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel sits atop the highest point on the Island Of Bermuda. The resort hotel's 100 landscaped acres span the Bermuda Island from the private Beach Club on the ocean to the historic Waterlot Inn on a sheltered bay. The hotel is neighbour to Stately Gibbs Hill Lighthouse and looks out over the ocean and lush gardens. Sister hotel the Fairmont Hamilton Princess is a 30-minute ferry ride away.

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel is located on Pittsbay Road overlooking the picturesque Hamilton Harbour. As a charming and historic Pink Palace, the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel is situated a convenient five-minute walk from the heart of Bermudas shopping, social and business world.

With distinctive British tradition, leisure and sophisticated lifestyle, Bermuda is and continuously will be an attractive travel and vacation destination of the world.