Dubbed as the newer, glossier and more charming version of The Traitors, it’s no surprise ITV bosses spent quite the fortune filming for their new game show.
The Fortune Hotel will see its participants having to lie to each other, take part in challenges and figure out who the betrayers are.
Ten couples will be handed a briefcase each, with only one holding £250,000 inside and another holding an ‘early checkout card’.
Clearly not wanting to hold back, ITV bosses sent the ten couples to the five-star luxury Caribbean resort, Silversands Grenada.
Found at the southern end of the Caribbean, just 100 miles from Venezuela, the tiny tear-shaped island of Grenada has become a hotspot for luxury real estate.
Dubbed as the newer, glossier and more charming version of The Traitors, it’s no surprise ITV bosses spent quite the fortune filming for their new game show
The Fortune Hotel will see its participants having to lie to each other, take part in challenges and figure out who the betrayers are
Visited by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, 70, Kate Moss, 50, and Donatella Versace, 69, in recent years, the island is shortly becoming a celebrity hotspot too.
The hotel, which only opened to the public at the beginning of February, boasts the longest pool in the Caribbean.
As Grenada’s first contemporary-styled luxury hotel it cost £98 million to build, with the investment coming from Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris.
With rooms starting from £600, guests have the choice of 43 suites and a mix of eight hillside and beachfront residential villas.
Silversands also has an extensive spa complex with a gym, sauna, steam room, ice cave and ‘experience shower’.
It boasts two al-a-carte restaurants, one serving Thai inspired dishes and another serving fresh fish caught that day by local fishermen.
Local sights and trips also include natural waterfalls and the first underwater sculpture park which is just off the coast.
Filmed in October last year, ITV took over the whole resort to film their latest show, The Fortune Hotel.
With rooms starting from £600, guests have the choice of 43 suites and a mix of eight hillside and beachfront residential villas
The hotel, which only opened to the public at the beginning of February, boasts the longest pool in the Caribbean
The luxury resort features a number of extravagant facilities and ITV have splashed the cash to make sure their new show could be filmed there
The contestants and crew were based at the hotel for five weeks during filming of the game show, which has been dubbed as ITV’s answer to The Traitors
A trailer released by ITV shows the stunning hotel where the series was filmed in the Caribbean
Coming to ITV next week on Monday 13 The Fortune Hotel will whisk ten couples away to a luxury resort in the Caribbean to give them the chance to win £250,000 (couple Samm and Aysha seen)
The show has been called a more glamorous version of The Traitors, which airs on BBC One and is hosted Claudia Winkleman (pictured earlier this year at the launch of the second series)
Reports last week suggested the shoot for the psychological series – which is hosted by Stephen Mangan – was so pricey, bosses had to empty the contestants’ mini bars in fear they could exceed the budget.
In January the BBC’s The Traitors was seeing an average audience of 6.4 million viewers per episode.
The programme was a competition series built on strategy, suspicion and deception, filmed in the Scottish Highlands where a team of players competed in a series of missions and had to uncover which members of the group were ‘traitors’.
The BBC show doubled its viewership for season two and has since been licensed in Australia and the US.
The Fortune Hotel airs every Monday to Thursday at 9pm on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player from May 13th.
