81801 Overseas Highway
Islamorada,
FL
33036
Casitas and VIP Guest Services Manager at Cheeca Lodge & Spa
The role of the Casitas and VIP Guest Services Manager involves overseeing all aspects of the Casitas operation. This role will work closely with Resort Manager, Director of Rooms Operations, Executive Housekeeper and Chief Engineer to ensure the Casitas room product is thoroughly well prepared for our guests. Additionally, the role oversees our Casitas Butler team to ensure an overwhelmingly positive memorable experience is delivered to all Casita guests as well as Cheeca VIP guests. Delivering exceptional service begins with pre-stay contact to coordinate dining and activities, a personalized arrival experience, surprise and delights, consistent guest communication throughout the stay concluding with a warm farewell and post stay follow up. Additionally, the role includes inter-departmental communication to ensure Cheeca VIP guests experience is equally as thorough. The Casitas and VIP Guest Services Manager is a member of the Front Office Leadership team and reports to Director of Rooms
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Why Join Cheeca Lodge & Spa: As the Casitas and VIP Guest Services Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring our guests have an exceptional experience. This role offers a dynamic work environment, professional growth opportunities, and the chance to lead a dedicated team in a prestigious resort setting. Join us to make a significant impact on our guests' experiences and elevate our service standards.
Since 1946 the historic Cheeca Lodge & Spa has enchanted guests with world-class fishing, exceptional accommodations, and gracious hospitality. Come experience this lush oceanfront retreat, considered the premier luxury resort in the Florida Keys.
You've found it...the crown jewel of Islamorada Florida Keys hotels.
Hardy Keys pioneers called Conchs chose this very beach to carve out a tenacious living in the isolated beauty of the undiscovered Florida Keys. Here, they formed a Methodist congregation and built a two-room school house and a cemetery. Cheeca has preserved this Pioneer Cemetery, where members of the founding families of Islamorada are buried. You can explore it today; it is a designated historical site. The Angel with the Broken Wing watches over the grave of Etta Pinder, who died in 1914. Here lies the first footprint of Islamorada – "Purple Isle" in Spanish.
The early 1940's brought electricity and fresh water. Mrs. Clara Mae Downey from Olney, Maryland, opened the Olney Inn in 1946. She described this early bellwether of Cheeca as "different – rather comparable to the tropical estate of a gifted host." Clara's first guest was President Harry Truman, who cherished his time loafing around the pool and wondering amidst the resort's 22 quaint bungalows.
Fast horses, high society and a healthy dose of Keys vivacity marked the reign of the Twitchell Family in the 1960's. Cynthia, better known as "Chee," was an heiress to the A&P grocery chain and owner of a top thoroughbred racing farm. "We took my nickname, combined it with my husband Carl's, and came up with "Cheeca," she recalled. The Twitchells completely refurbished the property, adding the main lodge, the oceanfront villas, tennis courts, golf course and Cheeca's trademark wooden fishing pier. Chee raised miniature tarpon and her beloved seahorses in the aquariums throughout the resort. "Suzy the Seahorse" became Cheeca's mascot and logo, gracing the resort's menus, brochures, towels and linens.
Avid outdoorsman and Coca Cola magnate Carl Navarre purchased Cheeca Lodge in 1976, hosting his Fortune 500 friends in for sunny days of sportfishing and golf. Celebrities flocked to the hotel and famous guests were reeling in giant bonefish right off the resort's pier. The "Sportfishing Capital of the World" was born, seducing wealthy adventurers from around the world.
In 2005, Cheeca Lodge underwent over $30 million dollars in renovations, restoring the property and its surrounding grounds to their original grandeur, ensuring that we will be a cherished destination for generations to come. Following a fire on New Year's Eve 2008, the Main Lodge was completely rebuilt once again, with a fabulous open-air lobby, a spectacular oceanfront banquet room with panoramic views, and an exclusive indoor / outdoor lounge area for club members.