1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,520 People have long dreamt of living in paradise. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,680 But for most, it's somewhere just out of reach. 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,480 I think we're all searching for paradise, our little Garden of Eden. 4 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,400 Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has tried to do the impossible 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,360 and create Utopia on his 74-acre private island 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,080 called Necker in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,960 It's just a place of absolute beauty. It's really lovely. 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,160 We didn't even like speak to one another for like an hour. 9 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:39,800 We were just, like, in awe. 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,040 Enjoying this Garden of Eden comes at a price. 11 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,680 One week's stay costs over £280,000. 12 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,120 They want to know what Patch's business is - what do you do? 13 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,400 How do you make your money? 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,200 This is the story of the guests who come to stay on Necker Island 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,320 and those who serve them, 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,440 working tirelessly to sell the Caribbean dream. 17 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,560 Sometimes they're good and bad. 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,640 We get some real messy ones. 19 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,800 Really, really messy. 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,440 Some groups are really demanding. 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,920 All day, they will ask for food and food. 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,960 They have to battle to keep nature at bay. 23 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:23,080 They're just wasting their time. That sand is fine where it is. 24 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,000 And attend to the guests' every whim. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,480 We once had a new management team and they brought in two rules. 26 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,600 The first, that staff cannot drink with the guests, 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,600 and staff may not have relationships with the guests. 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,320 It's not the way this island would work or run very well. 29 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,560 200 miles north-west of Antigua lies Necker. 30 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,560 It's one of the smallest of the British Virgin Islands, 31 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,960 but its reputation stretches far and wide. 32 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,560 It's attracted everyone from Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana 33 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,880 to Kate Moss and One Direction's Harry Styles. 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,840 All stations, all stations. 35 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,880 Just to let you know, a helicopter is arriving in ten minutes. 36 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,120 House manager Cat grew up in Oxfordshire. 37 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,080 She was 16 before she'd had the chance to travel abroad. 38 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:46,240 My family holidays were very much a caravan in a nice beach location 39 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,960 in the UK, so this is, yeah, a dream. 40 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,440 We are about to go and meet Kerry and Patch, 41 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,560 who are some good friends of ours. 42 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,640 They've stayed here on Necker many times. 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,560 Because of its remote location, getting to the island isn't easy. 44 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,280 After flying to the Caribbean, 45 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,920 guests make the rest of the journey either by boat or, 46 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,760 if they can afford it, by helicopter. 47 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,800 Hiya! 48 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,200 Birmingham couple Kerry and Patch are frequent visitors. 49 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,400 The first time we came here was for our honeymoon, so back in 2005. 50 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,360 I've been here nine times. 51 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,680 And I've been eight. 52 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,240 I love seeing guests coming back for the tenth time, 53 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,560 for the 21st time, and just still having that absolute sense 54 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:55,480 of elation, joy and just getting away from the rest of the world. 55 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,080 Necker caters for just 30 people in 15 rooms. 56 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,720 Usually, the whole island is hired out, costing over £40,000 per night. 57 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,080 But, for a few weeks a year, 58 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,800 guests don't have to book the entire island. 59 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,880 Rooms are rented out individually. 60 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,680 Patch and Kerry are staying in the master suite 61 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,560 that costs a mere £30,000 a week. 62 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,040 Oh, it's absolutely massive. 63 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,680 Massive! Wow! 64 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,000 It's much higher than the old room. 65 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,320 The vibe of it is homely. When you come in, you're immediately relaxed. 66 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,360 It is homely because there's no pretence when you get here. 67 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,120 You're straight into your flip-flops. 68 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,840 You're straight into relaxed mode. 69 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:02,800 You do get some guests when they get here they're a little bit, 70 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,720 kind of, we were expecting it to be the Savoy or something and it isn't. 71 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,640 Still with the outdoor bath tub. 72 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,400 Yes. Outdoor shower and, of course, the Jacuzzi. 73 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,560 It's the most romantic place in the world. 74 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,800 It is the most romantic place in the world. Yes. 75 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,000 You get your formal hotels. This is beyond that, really. 76 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,600 It's in a different kind of marketplace altogether. 77 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,120 It's kind of... It's what I've said before about the other places 78 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,160 that we've been to, and you've got that pomposity, 79 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,640 and I hate that - you have to wear the right things, the right clothes. 80 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,760 Everything's got to be formal at dinner. 81 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:42,640 Here, it doesn't matter that you're in flip-flops and your hair's wet. 82 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,640 Oh, that's Richard kiting. 83 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,720 Oh, right. Impressive stuff. 84 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,360 It's looking good, hey? 85 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,320 We'll get you out there this week, Patch. 86 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,360 THEY LAUGH 87 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,560 To run the island requires 100 members of staff. 88 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,120 At least three for every guest. 89 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,920 The majority live on a neighbouring island, Virgin Gorda, 90 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,680 which is a ten-minute commute by boat. 91 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:18,920 That's the Necker bed. 92 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,880 You can't just come in and do it like that. 93 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,960 You have to practise until you get perfect. 94 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,200 Patsy and Agatha have been cleaning up after guests for nearly a decade. 95 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,240 I worked in some of the biggest hotels in the Caribbean, 96 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,160 but actually Necker Island, 97 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,040 I've never seen nothing like Necker Island before. 98 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,200 All the rich and famous come here, yeah, and that is so true. 99 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,760 I've seen lots of rich and famous people here. 100 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,880 Sometimes they're good, and bad. 101 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,480 Yeah, we get some real messy ones. 102 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,160 We get some real messy ones. 103 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,240 But we're accustomed to it, you know. 104 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,920 That's our job, to clean up after the guests. 105 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,960 So we don't have a problem with that. 106 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:14,360 I love Sex And The City, but I can't remember which one of them was here. 107 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,240 I can't remember her name at all, 108 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,840 because that's my favourite show, 109 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:24,000 but we try not to discuss what happens at Necker. 110 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,440 What happens at Necker stays at Necker. 111 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,880 Necker has been Richard Branson's home for over three decades, 112 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,800 but he's still inspired by its beauty. 113 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,880 I've always got up early, but particularly here. 114 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,280 It's just...look at that. 115 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,720 Oh, look, here we go. Just coming in now. 116 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,400 Look at that. 117 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,680 I get excited every time. 118 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,040 We'll be in the middle of a conference here, 119 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,640 and I'll go, "Flamingos!". 120 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,560 Richard runs his Virgin empire from a poolside office on the island. 121 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,640 Every morning, he meets with his two personal assistants, 122 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,760 Helen and Jo, who help him with his e-mails. 123 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,360 I'm still old-fashioned. 124 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,880 I dictate 90% of them, 125 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,920 so it's great that they know everything that's going on 126 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,560 so that I know what's going on. 127 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,920 Otherwise, I wouldn't know what the hell's going on. 128 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,720 We may be floating Virgin Money in the next couple of weeks. 129 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,600 Virgin America, we may be floating in the next couple of weeks, 130 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,880 which is an airline in the States. 131 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,760 So, you know, from here we sort of, you know, 132 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,080 keep a watchful eye on everything. 133 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,560 These two lovely ladies, who I've worked with for a while, 134 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:48,600 Helen for the longest, she was a stewardess once as well. 135 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,960 I was. 136 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,120 So a lot of our time is just spent, when we're not on Necker, 137 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,160 on the road and... 138 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,600 There's no job like this. There literally is no job like this. 139 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,880 Every e-mail you send is completely different. 140 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,360 Every bit of correspondence with people is completely different. 141 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,240 So nothing is ever the same ever. Every single day is different. 142 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,200 It's so varied. It's great. You never know what you're going to get. 143 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,640 No. You never know, literally. 144 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,440 We were having a meeting here once and somebody ran into the meeting 145 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,200 who'd actually swum from another island 146 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,720 to come to see me with a proposition. 147 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,400 I think his idea was gyms on trains, which wasn't a bad idea, actually, 148 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,520 but it's just sadly, trains need all the space they can get 149 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,520 just to transport people. 150 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:35,360 And there are people who will rent the island to come to pitch. 151 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:36,640 Yes! 152 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:46,000 Richard bought the island in 1978 for £180,000. 153 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,720 He was 28 years old, and his company Virgin Records 154 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,200 was just starting to have hit albums. 155 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,160 When I saw this magical island from the air, 156 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,840 I just had never seen anything more perfect, 157 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,240 except my beautiful lady I was wooing, 158 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,400 who was also in the helicopter with me. 159 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,800 So I saw the two most perfect things in the world all at the same time, 160 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,960 and I was determined to try to capture them both. 161 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,400 It took me a while to persuade her, but I finally got there, 162 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,080 and it took me a while to persuade the owners to sell it to me. 163 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,320 And I had to then go and work really hard to try to make some money 164 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,200 to actually do something here, 165 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,560 and fortunately, our record company started becoming successful. 166 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:39,640 In time, we were able to turn it into something really special. 167 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,520 Richard is the founder of the Virgin Group, 168 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,760 which employs over 50,000 people worldwide. 169 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,600 But Necker has always been the home he could escape to, 170 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,120 where he raised his children and married his wife Joan. 171 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,080 'Jack, Jack. Kezia.' 172 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,480 Hi, Kez, go ahead. 173 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,080 'Hey, Jack, we have some guests down at the hot tub 174 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,800 'that are requesting you make some pina coladas for them. 175 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,680 'They've also requested that you could do it shirtless 176 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:11,200 'if that's possible.' 177 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:12,880 Anything's possible on Necker. 178 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,320 Groundsmen Brian and Ornette have been working for Richard 179 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:26,360 for decades. 180 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,840 When they first arrived, 181 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,840 Necker wasn't the manicured island it is today. 182 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,200 Kenny grew up in Wales and came to the island 183 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,720 as a water sports instructor ten years ago. 184 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,840 Today, he's the general manager. 185 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,200 I'm the boss on Necker. 186 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,280 I manage it, along with my wife Leesa. 187 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,600 I kind of fell into tourism and holidays, 188 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,760 and fell in love with the industry, and ended up here. 189 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,920 Ended up teaching kite surfing here. 190 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,360 I really enjoyed it. 191 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,160 I realised that there was good opportunity if you work hard, 192 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:23,080 and ended up becoming the general manager and, you know, 193 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:24,960 I've really, really loved it. 194 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,680 I don't think... I never thought that would happen. 195 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:30,440 I'd never even heard of Necker Island. 196 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,120 But, yeah, that's where it ended up. 197 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,280 The island is a multi-million pound business, 198 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,200 and Kenny employs half a dozen people to take care of its accounts. 199 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,440 Millie is head of finance. 200 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,840 She moved to the Caribbean with her husband and son 201 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,480 two-and-a-half years ago. 202 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,320 If you have to have an office job, 203 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,560 I mean, this is the place to have an office job. 204 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,840 We spend a lot of time in the office, 205 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,920 but we do get out and meet the guests, 206 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,000 and hang out and do casino and whatever. 207 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,960 But I do tend to get quite busy and focused. 208 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,400 But I try and get out there once a week, once every couple of weeks. 209 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,360 They always bring me out, or I volunteer, to do the casino night, 210 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:13,680 because I can count. 211 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,520 So that's always good. 212 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,840 I'll croupier black jack or something like that for them 213 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,040 and hang out with the guests, 214 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,080 and then I'll normally just sleep over and have a good time. 215 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,520 I love that I get asked to do things like that, 216 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,680 because when you're an accountant, 217 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,640 you're not always able to bring your personality to work. 218 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:36,560 You're not always able to be exactly as freaky as you really are, 219 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,880 whereas here, you're very much encouraged to be who you are. 220 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,480 We work really, really hard, 221 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,760 but we're also encouraged to play hard. 222 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,640 Like, Friday, it was a guest's birthday. 223 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,400 They were looking for something a little bit different, 224 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,960 and one of the guest services people would come up with, 225 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,440 they're having a sushi night, what's a bit different? 226 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,600 I think I'd mentioned a couple of months ago, 227 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,160 that it's cool to eat sushi off a hot girl. 228 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,880 Not, you know, not trying to say I'll be the hot girl 229 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,520 that you get to eat sushi off of, but it was great. 230 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,440 I came in and did my day's work, 231 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,160 and then got a boat over to Mosquito, 232 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,160 and it was a bit different here because it's really hot 233 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,040 and the sushi got really, really quite warm and stuck to me, 234 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,280 so that was interesting, but it was fun. 235 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,880 I love that I get to be an accountant and do this stuff 236 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,720 and then go lay on a table and have people suck, you know, 237 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,000 soy sauce out of my belly button in the evening. It's brilliant. 238 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Who else gets to do that? 239 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,920 Not all sushi at Necker is eaten off hot girls. 240 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,880 Today, it will be served on a kayak in the pool. 241 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,720 Ha-ha! Yes, of course. 242 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,400 Originally from France, head chef Clement arrived last year, 243 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,360 after previously working at the Ritz in London. 244 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,280 The sushi with the sushi boat with this lovely food, 245 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:09,560 yeah, you have to make sure that the guy who delivers the food 246 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,720 is the same as the food really. 247 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,000 Sexy. 248 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,840 About ten minutes before the guests come, 249 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,520 we fill the kayak with ice, 250 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,600 palms and flowers, chopsticks, 251 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,480 and then we add the sushi to it, 252 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,920 and then off onto the water, float about, 253 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,840 and people will jump in the pool and have fun, have drinks, 254 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:32,960 and eat the sushi. 255 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,560 I might have a cocktail or two, sneaky ones as well. 256 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,480 Have some fun. Yeah. 257 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,360 I can't believe you're getting paid to do that. 258 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,840 It's insane, it's insane. 259 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,840 Necker may be one of the most expensive holiday destinations 260 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,760 in the world but, once here, everything is included, 261 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,680 from meals, to scuba diving and champagne. 262 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:19,400 This means Clement and his staff of 12 are on call 24 hours a day 263 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,600 to meet the guests' every whim. 264 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,520 Some groups are really demanding. 265 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,080 Like, all day they will ask for food. 266 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,680 There again, like, we always adapt ourselves to after the first day, 267 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,840 we pretty much get the shape of the group, 268 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:42,640 and we pretty much find out how it's going to be in the next few days. 269 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,320 So yeah, if we need to change the planning 270 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,320 and stay longer just to deliver what we have to deliver... 271 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,840 I remember the worst was one day, it was Bank Holiday actually, 272 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:04,240 and one of the guests really wanted some caviar, 273 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:10,680 and we had to get some from Saint Thomas, I believe, 274 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,240 to bring to Necker Island on the Bank Holiday. 275 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,120 That was a challenge. 276 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:21,280 With my sous chef, we started calling at eight in the morning 277 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:26,560 and we just received the caviar at 6:30pm, 7pm at night, 278 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,960 just ready to serve for the aperitif really. 279 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,880 That was a nightmare. 280 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,520 We get a lot of people coming here who are in the public eye 281 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,800 and therefore if they go to a hotel, 282 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,920 they can't completely switch off, 283 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,160 and when you go on holiday you want to 100% switch off, 284 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,640 so Necker's a place where people can literally draw up the drawbridge 285 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,560 and let their hair down and relax. 286 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,360 It's just a lovely letter that Diana sent. 287 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:24,440 She used to come with her children when they were very young, 288 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,240 just to get away from the press, 289 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,320 and she was one of the nicest people I've ever spent time knowing, 290 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,320 and she was always incredibly polite, 291 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,080 and always wrote the most beautiful thank-you letters. 292 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,800 So, yeah, it was a nice touch and she had a magical time. 293 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,440 You know, she came with family and friends and, you know, 294 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,360 it was a place where the kids could also let their hair down 295 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,760 and holiday and frolic without being in the public eye. 296 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,080 So, it was perfect. 297 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,440 This is the main house. 298 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,720 This is the dining room table where we normally have big dinners 299 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,040 and there's lots of people. 300 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,200 There's a gong somewhere that gets gonged once you start dinner. 301 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,840 Penny is one of Necker's most frequent visitors 302 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,600 and considers the island her second home. 303 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,040 I've been coming to Necker for ten years. 304 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,840 About twice a year. Two to three times a year. 305 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,000 This is my 21st time on Necker. 306 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,400 It's just a place of absolute beauty. It's really lovely. 307 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,400 I was born in the north of England 308 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,880 and I've lived in New York for over 15 years. 309 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:44,560 Penny and her friends often hire the entire island exclusively, 310 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:49,120 but this week she's arrived with just one of her girlfriends. 311 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:52,640 It's a busy New York life. I'm a real estate developer. 312 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,600 Pushing yourself up. There we go. 313 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,880 And this is a complete stress-buster. 314 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,720 You know, it's everything that you look forward to 315 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,200 when you're having a busy, stressful day, 316 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,240 is coming here and just letting go and just relaxing. 317 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,080 Gently back up to the top. Reaching tall. 318 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,200 The staff are an inherent part of your vacation. 319 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:17,360 It's very fun and they're here to make the vacation that you want. 320 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:20,480 Scooping through the hands again to an upward dog. 321 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,680 And none of them are bad on the eyes. 322 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,520 They're all pretty good looking, yeah. 323 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,480 We have some favourites. 324 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,680 Conditions for kite surfing and wind and water sports are great. 325 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,600 I come to work every day with five things, basically. 326 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,720 A T-shirt, board shorts, radio, phone and sunnies. 327 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,000 That's everything. 328 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,040 Elliott left school just as the recession hit his native Spain 329 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,280 and had to look abroad for a job. 330 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,720 I was working in London in a sailing/diving shop. 331 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,640 One day, we got a massive delivery of kite surfing stuff 332 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,760 and it had a label "Richard Branson". 333 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,200 So I asked who was this customer, how are we selling all this stuff, 334 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,640 and they said, "Don't you know who Richard Branson is?". I had no idea. 335 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,440 So I Googled it, and the first thing that came up 336 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,000 was this picture of Richard kiting with this naked girl on his back. 337 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,480 I thought, "Hold on, what's going on here?" 338 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,880 So I just wrote a letter, five lines, just asking for advice. 339 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,400 So they answered me back, they said "Well, Richard's pretty busy, 340 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,480 "he couldn't read your letter, but he wishes you the best. 341 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,040 "Tell me about yourself." 342 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,960 After a few e-mails, they told me that he had this island 343 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,120 in the Caribbean and had water sports. 344 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,240 They asked for my CV, and they asked me to come to give them a hand 345 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,440 for a week - I worked really hard for those days, those ten days, 346 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,880 and they offered me the full-time job, so I said "Yeah, definitely! 347 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,000 "Yeah, absolutely!". And here I am. 348 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,840 You don't see money here. 349 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,840 You don't talk about money. 350 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,680 You don't talk about the economy. 351 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,480 You don't talk about politics. 352 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,560 It really helps you appreciate what you really have, 353 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,720 which is not money, which is not what you really need in life. 354 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,320 This is literally priceless. 355 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,480 The eight members of the water sports team 356 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,960 usually work six days a week. 357 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,240 But the end of their shift does come with a few perks. 358 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,720 It was a really special end of the day the other day. 359 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,240 We got this call from one of the guys from water sports 360 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,200 coming back from the airport, saying that they just saw 361 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,160 a really big group of dolphins swimming around. 362 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,800 Look at them! 363 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,360 I believe there's a special connection 364 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:16,400 between dolphins and humans. 365 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,240 It doesn't happen really often, 366 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,560 but when it does, it just makes your day, your week, your month. 367 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600 It's really, really special. 368 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,560 It was beautiful. 369 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,400 I mean, being in the water with those animals 370 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,520 is just something really special. 371 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,640 It makes your day. It was magical. It was really great. 372 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,160 Oh, yes! 373 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,480 It's the sickest place in the world to be. 374 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,800 It's unreal. It's paradise for sure. 375 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,320 You can't beat it. 376 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,440 While most leave the island at the end of their shift, 377 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,840 there are 20 staff that live on Necker all year round. 378 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,400 It's considered a privilege. 379 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,600 You need some people to live here. 380 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,160 Like, you need your chief engineer to live here if the power goes out, 381 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,680 the water, or if there's problems with the rooms, that kind of stuff. 382 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,520 It drives Adam mad - he gets called in the middle of the night. 383 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,760 And then Helen's here because Richard sometimes needs to do stuff. 384 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,960 Chefs Joe and Gaz, so obviously you get food requests at night. 385 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,440 Good evening. 386 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,840 How are you doing? 387 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,200 Carla said you finished at six. 388 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,960 Yeah. Two hours later? 389 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,760 You're on time? 390 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:02,400 I think it was the best day of your life. I think it was. 391 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,720 Really? Well, yeah! 392 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,040 Oh, I got it. Nice. 393 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,920 Forget about it. OK. 394 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,120 Do you want a drink? Yeah. 395 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,920 What would you like? No, two drinks. 396 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,360 A swig of the beer before it goes up the chicken's bum. 397 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,000 Here, George, you have that one. 398 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,400 The idea is that the beer boils up inside the chicken 399 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,680 and it keeps the chicken really moist, 400 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,400 and it helps to stand it up on the barbecue. 401 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,920 He's not even a chef! 402 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,840 There you go. 403 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,120 That's text book beer can chicken. 404 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:38,800 Living on an island, it is a really intense environment. 405 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,720 You've got to know when to take yourself out of it, 406 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,560 and when to just say, right, I need to have a night off island, 407 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,640 two nights off island, because otherwise it does get too much. 408 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,200 There you go. What do you think about this, Chef? 409 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,960 Everyone's got to learn to be really good at being able to work together, 410 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,640 having a very, very professional work relationship, 411 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,720 but then also being able to go into a social circle together, 412 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,400 and being able to pretty much drop all of that structure 413 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,120 that you have at work, 414 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:09,800 and just become much more on a sort of even level, an even basis. 415 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,680 Yeah. Whatever's happened at work stays at work. 416 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,640 It's a matter of survival really. 417 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,280 If you can't go and socialise with people, 418 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,000 it would become a really, really lonely place. 419 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,160 It's our home as well, 420 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,160 so, yes, it's the island that we're running 421 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,080 to give guests the unique experience that they have. 422 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,720 But it's also our home, and so the 20 people that live here 423 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,560 need to be able to go home and switch off and relax. 424 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,040 Can I just pull this beer can out of this chicken? 425 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,600 One thing at a time! Right, go. 426 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,720 Many staff on Necker are single and under 30 when they arrive. 427 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,240 But working in such close proximity 428 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,680 means relationships inevitably develop. 429 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,600 When you are in remote locations, there are definitely romances 430 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,520 and it certainly helps when you've had a tough day 431 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,120 to go home and have that person give you a kiss on the head, 432 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,320 put their arm around you and say everything's going to be OK. 433 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,400 Not far away is a very different world. 434 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,720 Neighbouring island Virgin Gorda. 435 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,800 Home to over half of Necker's employees. 436 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,240 With a population of just 5,000, it's a tightly knit community, 437 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,600 many of whom are dependent on the tourist industry. 438 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,240 Every morning, the workers' daily commute begins at 6am 439 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,760 when the staff bus collects them to catch the ferry to work. 440 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,200 You haven't beaten me this morning, then? 441 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,800 You get up at 4:30am to get ready. 442 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,080 Get the kids' breakfast ready. 443 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,720 Get myself ready for the bus at 6:15am. 444 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,480 Good morning. 445 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:54,960 Good morning. 446 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,040 Housekeeper Agatha is used to the early starts. 447 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:04,360 I have two girls and five boys, aged from 34 to eight years. 448 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,960 The youngest one is eight years. 449 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,160 What's the best part of this job? 450 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,520 Oh, when you're going home. 451 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,880 When you're going home in the afternoon. 452 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,360 And what's the worst part of this job? 453 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,520 Coming to work early. 454 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,280 Sometimes, we come to reach here for 5:30am. 455 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,640 When the guests are leaving early, we reach here for 5:30am. 456 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,320 What are you going to do when you finish working here? 457 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,680 Maybe do something on my own. 458 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,520 Open my little business. 459 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,560 I want to open a clothes store, 460 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,960 selling clothes. 461 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,880 Hi, Nat. 462 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,320 I've got a couple here wondering if they could do a couples massage 463 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,200 on the floating trampoline off Turtle Beach? 464 00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,680 'No problem, Christine. 465 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,080 'Would they like Champagne and strawberries with the massage?' 466 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,200 That would be great. Thanks, Nat. 467 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,560 I try not to think about how much it costs. 468 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:21,960 It's that... 469 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,080 It's definitely... 470 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,360 For me, it's if I've got the money, I'm going to spend it on me. 471 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,840 I know that's quite selfish, but to us, this is an extravagance, 472 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,400 but back at home we don't live in a particularly big, extravagant house. 473 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,920 We just live in a nice terraced street. 474 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,320 It's just a nice area. 475 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,760 There's nothing extravagant about the way we live or our lifestyle, 476 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,840 so this, to us, is our one little extravagance 477 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,960 that we do for ourselves. 478 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,200 Yeah, so it's... 479 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,960 I don't think we have too much of a stressful life but... 480 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,440 We don't have a stressful life. 481 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,680 We don't have a stressful life. We have a great life. 482 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,560 I only have a part-time job these days as a bicycle mechanic. 483 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,600 I think the assumption, just purely from just looking at us 484 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,200 because you're older than me... 485 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,960 They would assume that I was some successful businessman, 486 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,720 I would assume. Yeah. 487 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,960 A lot of the men especially on the island will go and talk to Patch, 488 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,760 and they don't really speak to me particularly. 489 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,280 When they're introduced, 490 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,440 they all want to know what Patch's business is, what do you do? 491 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,920 How do you make your money? 492 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,600 You have great pleasure in saying that you're a bike mechanic, 493 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,520 and then leave it a couple of days, 494 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,440 and then I think your best line was, 495 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,240 "What makes you assume that I've got the money?" 496 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,600 And then just stood up and walked off. 497 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,040 And next thing, he's all, "Hi, Kerry, how are you?" 498 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,400 You're like, "Oh, now you want to know me! Oh, I see." 499 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,320 It's very much about who's got what, who's... 500 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,640 Who's got the most, who does what for a living. 501 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,520 He must be dying in that suit. 502 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,680 You can do it, hon! 503 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,400 Kerry came into an inheritance when she was 21, 504 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,680 which allows her and Patch to regularly visit the island. 505 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,840 We don't openly promote where we go on holiday. 506 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000 We say we come to the Caribbean. 507 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,120 We don't necessarily say that we're coming onto Necker. 508 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,080 We'll be busted when this comes out, though. Oh, yeah! 509 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,160 I have to hit him with the golf ball. 510 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,960 But these are actually fish food, all right? 511 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,640 They're not real golf balls, 512 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,520 in case you were worrying where they went to. They dissolve. 513 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,880 Being an exclusive private island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea 514 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,960 comes with some unique challenges. 515 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,960 To get the simplest products delivered is difficult enough, 516 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,120 but guests here expect only the best. 517 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,440 Hey, young man, are you all right? 518 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,840 As the nearest airport is over an hour away, 519 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,440 almost everything must be brought in by boat. 520 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,600 This means that head chef Clement 521 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,000 is heavily reliant on weekly shipments. 522 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,080 I like to say this is the most difficult part of the job, 523 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,240 to be honest. 524 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,240 It's a challenge really, 525 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,480 and obviously because the supplier is not at the dock, 526 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,640 so you just receive it and there's no way back, to be honest. 527 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,200 If the fish is not right, we take pictures straight away, 528 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,000 and we send by e-mail to the supplier, 529 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,560 so it's a big fight after on the phone. 530 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,120 Yeah, are you good? 531 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,640 It's in the fish fridge. 532 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,680 Right, that's it. 533 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,040 That's one of the big ones weekly. 534 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,920 Today, we're pretty lucky, it's sunny. 535 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,840 It happens a few times that we get the rain 536 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,800 and, honestly, it's a nightmare. 537 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,640 It's a nasty one, yeah. 538 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,360 Everything's cool, thanks. 539 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,160 But not all the kitchen's needs are met 540 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,280 by the local weekly food shipment. 541 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,560 On occasion, special ingredients like truffles and rare cheeses 542 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,600 are flown in from some of the best markets in the world. 543 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,760 This one is from Paris. Yeah, this one. 544 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:38,640 So, the French cheese and meat we just received. 545 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,360 Oh, yeah, that's a good example, because we need some Parmesan now 546 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,200 and it just arrived, like, ten minutes ago, 547 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,200 so it's always like this on Necker. 548 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:53,600 Right here, what we're doing now, 549 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,880 we're getting some wood for a bonfire tonight 550 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,120 on Bali Hai beach. It will be lovely tonight. 551 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,720 One of the benefits of being on a Caribbean island 552 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:13,320 is that breakfast, lunch and dinner can all be served al fresco. 553 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680 Something Richard particularly enjoys. 554 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,960 One of the jobs of Necker is to entertain Richard. 555 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,200 He's like any other guest that comes here. 556 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,080 He works incredibly hard, 557 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,000 and then when he's not working, he likes to enjoy himself. 558 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,280 So, when he's here, 559 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,560 we'll try and make sure we do his favourite dinner locations. 560 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,360 So yeah, it is to entertain him. 561 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,440 What did you do this afternoon? 562 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,160 Were you working? 563 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,520 We hung out on the beach. Oh, just chilling. 564 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,960 Oh, actually, yeah, you sent my wife back very wrecked. 565 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,920 I'm good at that. 566 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,680 She was seriously wrecked. I mean, she was seriously wrecked. 567 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:50,880 Was she that happy? 568 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,240 She hasn't wanted to jump on top of me for a long time! 569 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,520 You should say thank you! 570 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,560 Oh, that's great. 571 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,040 I'll have to send her to lunch with you more often. 572 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,920 Yeah. We make really good drinking buddies, actually. 573 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,720 Where have you been hiding? 574 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,600 We've been scuba diving. 575 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,320 Scuba diving. Oh, nice. 576 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,520 The first time in my life. Oh, really? Oh, great. 577 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,920 Cheers. Cheers! 578 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,240 And then I've got a butterfly leg of lamb in a honey marinade. 579 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,880 It's Robbie and girlfriend Rachael's first time on Necker. 580 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,360 He bid £16,000 in a charity auction 581 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,280 for the chance to spend a week on the island. 582 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,280 We sell elevators. It's a family business. 583 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:36,280 So, you know, I'm not a record executive, Virgin Records. 584 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,680 It's not like, you know, I own an airline or anything. 585 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,720 I'm just a guy in Ohio that sells elevators. 586 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:45,720 But, yeah, Richard's inspired me, certainly, 587 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,240 and that's a big reason and so it was very spur of the moment. 588 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:53,080 After, you know, following him for a while, reading his books, 589 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,720 to see Necker Island pop up on an option for a charity item. 590 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,560 It was like, OK, yep, that's happening. 591 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,840 For guests like Robbie, the chance to have a meal and chat with Richard 592 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,880 is one of Necker's main attractions. 593 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,400 We walked up to lunch this morning and Richard's just sitting there 594 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,560 at the table, you know, eating a burger. 595 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,680 You know, he's just like, "Hey!" 596 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,040 I still need to hit him up more. I haven't gotten enough face time. 597 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,760 I'm hoping to have a conversation with him here tonight at dinner too. 598 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,200 One of the island's biggest challenges is the weather. 599 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,600 The hurricane season between September and October 600 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,440 brings the threat of torrential rain and thunderstorms. 601 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,800 Three years ago, nature dealt the island a devastating blow 602 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,520 when the Great House was hit by a bolt of lightning. 603 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:55,520 At about four in the morning, my son, I suddenly heard him 604 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,920 screaming, "Fire at the Great House, fire at the Great House!". 605 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,000 I jumped out of bed stark naked, looked up at the Great House, 606 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,920 there were 300-foot flames coming out of the house. 607 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,400 I just ran, you know, straight for the main house with my son. 608 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,840 We had my mother, and all my nephews, nieces, Holly my daughter 609 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,880 and, you know, various other people in the Great House, 610 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,200 and at that stage didn't know whether they'd all got out. 611 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,000 I ran straight into a cacti, 612 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,960 which is not a good idea when you're stark naked, but didn't feel a thing 613 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,080 because I was just more worried about just getting there. 614 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,520 Fortunately, one person woke up, my nephew Jack, 615 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,480 and he managed to get everybody out, 616 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,760 and Kate famously carried my mum out. 617 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,960 People were thinking, "Right, what do we do now?". 618 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,880 Because, going through the house you've got your rooms, 619 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,800 there's the living space, 620 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,200 but there's also all the infrastructure 621 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,880 that it takes to run this place. 622 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,240 So, you know, all of that absolutely key stuff is gone 623 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,240 and you're sort of left with the one surviving laptop 624 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:07,600 and a cellphone with marginal reception on it, 625 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,520 thinking, "OK, how do we kind of build back up from here?". 626 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,400 While that's happening, Richard, of course, calls and says, 627 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,520 "What architect are we going to use? Let's get them down here." 628 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,560 It was just straight into the new planning stage. 629 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,720 And it also meant that as a business, 630 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:27,880 we were able to recover very quickly. 631 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,480 So we didn't have to make people redundant and it was, you know, 632 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,400 tough in one sense because we did lose a lot of business. 633 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,320 But we all just got on and rebuilt. 634 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:42,120 The new Great House is now twice the size of the original family home 635 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:47,880 and the fire appears to have made Necker more popular than ever. 636 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,040 You don't want everybody coming. 637 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,480 You could be touching on a little bit of overdevelopment 638 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,120 if you weren't careful, I think, 639 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,360 because nine years ago, there was nowhere near as many buildings here 640 00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,840 as there are now. No. 641 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,760 And they've appeared while we've been coming, haven't they? Yeah. 642 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,320 I do slightly wonder whether you can actually support 643 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,960 many more buildings on here really before it's a bit... 644 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,120 When we've come before, you knew, even at maximum capacity, 645 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,720 it was still going to be quite a small, intimate group. 646 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,680 You really get to know each other and it's a nice bond. 647 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:18,800 If it gets too big, 648 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,040 you might as well have just gone to one of the big resorts. 649 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,160 This exclusivity is part of the allure. 650 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,840 The chance not only to meet Richard Branson, 651 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,880 but potentially do business with him 652 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,480 and other like-minded wealthy people. 653 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,800 This morning, the team are organising a guest breakfast 654 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,400 on Richard's other island. 655 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,720 In 2007, he took the opportunity to buy neighbouring Mosquito Island 656 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,040 for £10 million. 657 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,000 For the past year, he's been selling plots of land on Mosquito 658 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,840 to anyone that might have several million pounds to spare. 659 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,360 This is kind of the waiting game, where sometimes we just finish 660 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,720 as the guests are pulling up to the beach, 661 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:30,920 because they're really on time - they were at water sports at 9am, 662 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,720 and they sail down here in a second 663 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:35,320 and other times they're paddle-boarding and kayaking, 664 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,800 and we have a bit more time to finish up 665 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,880 and get everything ready for them. 666 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,800 Perfect. I think we're all set. 667 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,920 Hello. How was the sail? 668 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,040 Kezia was raised in the British Virgin Islands. 669 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,960 It's her job to get the party started, 670 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,000 and at Necker, that means cocktails for breakfast. 671 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,560 Can I get you something to drink? 672 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,400 I will have actually a mimosa please. 673 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:58,960 A mimosa? Yes. Absolutely. 674 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,760 Two mimosas? Sure. 675 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,960 You're definitely setting the standard, Robbie, 676 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,800 for how late everyone's got to stay up, 677 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,720 and how hard they've got to party. 678 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,200 How are you? 679 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,880 Two beers too many again. 680 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:20,160 As always. It means we've done our job properly. You've done great. 681 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,640 You don't want a hair of the dog yet? 682 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,720 I'll ask you in a few hours. 683 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:28,840 I don't know how I'm going to go home. 684 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:29,920 Just stay. 685 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,680 The party atmosphere isn't just for the guests on Necker. 686 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,800 During rare down time, 687 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,560 staff like Junior are allowed to enjoy the island themselves. 688 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,720 We do an induction with our managers 689 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:08,720 and you go around and you do a day's work, or a half day's work, 690 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,360 with the different teams. 691 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,400 You just kind of get to know what it's like to do that job. 692 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,200 I remember doing the grounds one and, I mean, 693 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,560 those guys work seriously hard. 694 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,960 I got to 11 o'clock in the morning and the shift goes till 12pm, 695 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,520 and we still had to move another table and another set of chairs, 696 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,520 and I'm just thinking, can't we just sit down right now? 697 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,200 I'm dripping in sweat. I'm really, really thirsty. 698 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,680 So, yeah, those boys are hard workers. 699 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,040 There's no two ways about it. 700 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,120 So, tonight is disco night for the guests, 701 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,800 so we invite them up for the usual cocktails and dinner 702 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:19,880 and then we give them an invite and encourage them to dress up 703 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,600 for disco night with some of our accessories. 704 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,320 We do a lot of fancy dress here on Necker. 705 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,840 Richard wants Necker to be a place where people can come and relax 706 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,520 and have fun, enjoy themselves, 707 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,400 and doing something like this, it's just in your everyday life, 708 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,880 it's not usually something that you'd be doing, 709 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,800 and it kind of lets people make fun of themselves a little bit. 710 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,160 A lot of the times, we do definitely try and be the instigators 711 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,200 for a good party, because we like one ourselves too. 712 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,320 We once had a new management team that came 713 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:54,960 and they brought in two rules. 714 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,680 The first, the staff cannot drink with the guests, 715 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:02,000 and staff may not have relationships with the guests. 716 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,880 That management company lasted one weekend. 717 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,840 It's not the way this island would work or run very well. 718 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,440 Richard is a matchmaker. 719 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,760 So, for some of the girls here who are gorgeous, who are single, 720 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,840 then Richard does make it a bit of a mission 721 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,400 to make sure that they're well looked after. 722 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,560 We're all definitely social people. 723 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,800 If the guests ask us to have a drink with them, 724 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,600 then, yeah, maybe we'll have one. 725 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,000 I mean, most people here, we're all pretty fun anyways, 726 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,680 so it doesn't take much for us to just kind of get into that mood. 727 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,480 You might have someone teaching you kite surfing during the day, 728 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,240 and then in the evening you've got them making your shots 729 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,000 and, you know, your drinks. 730 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,840 You've got, you know, the wives that love the boys, 731 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,360 and love to flirt with them. 732 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,040 Because we have a bit more people contact, 733 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,360 we're just able to be a bit more friendly. 734 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,400 Keeping the guests happy 735 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,960 isn't as simple as just serving them cocktails. 736 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:52,040 General manager Kenny faces a constant battle with Mother Nature. 737 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,880 It's a problem all over the Caribbean at the moment. 738 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,280 The beaches kind of balance out with the swell and the winds. 739 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,920 So the swell goes that way and the wind goes that way, 740 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,920 and there hasn't been much swell for the last year and a half, 741 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,560 so the beach is the wrong end 742 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,800 and we're just putting some back up there before we start losing it. 743 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,240 They're just wasting their time. That sand is fine where it is. 744 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,680 They need to know. Knock this down a couple of feet. 745 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,760 The idea is, that half of the beach we leave, 746 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,480 and this half of the beach we pick all of this sand up, 747 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,200 put it in the back of the truck and take it up to the top. 748 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:33,880 Are you with me? 749 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,800 Right, if you chat to him about that, I'm just going to... 750 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,280 Change of plan, man. 751 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,800 Politics in this place. 752 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,200 They want you to start taking the stuff out of the sea... 753 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,400 into your T-Rex, and then over to the beach. 754 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,800 Have you got the picture on you? Yes. Can we just have a look at it? 755 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,120 Because we've had wind going that way and no swell, 756 00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,080 or very little swell, the beach, which is normally there, is there. 757 00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,160 So we're just picking up this sand on the shore side 758 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:08,680 and moving it up to this end of the beach. 759 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,880 At the moment, the dock is preventing it going round. 760 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,920 But it's now got to such a size that if all this sand goes there, 761 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,640 it's going to go round the dock 762 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,920 and then we're going to start losing it. 763 00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:23,840 Getting heavy machinery shipped in isn't cheap. 764 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,760 Kenny has only three days 765 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,880 to reshape the most popular beach on the island. 766 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,000 1,000 a day. Don't let them stop moving. 767 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,520 It can be a really, really big challenge, 768 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,000 and there's always a bunch of different elements 769 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,320 going on on the island at the same time, 770 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,280 and because we operate all the time, 771 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,640 you do have to work out how you can do all the back-of-house stuff 772 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,960 that's essential, whilst at the same time, 773 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,440 have the guests on the island 774 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,600 and make sure that that experience is maintained throughout. 775 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,680 So, yeah, choreographing stuff is really, really key. 776 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,720 Hey, mister. Hi. 777 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,440 Have you got your socks on? 778 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:11,280 Kenny met his wife Leesa on Necker when she came to set up the spa, 779 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,440 and he was teaching Richard to kite surf. 780 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,680 They're the longest-serving ex-pats on the island. 781 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,160 So, what are you up to at school today? 782 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:27,600 Their children, Theo and Zara, are the only kids that live on Necker. 783 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,520 Come on, then. 784 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,920 As the workers arrive in the morning Kenny and Leesa take the boat 785 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,720 back to Virgin Gorda to do the school run. 786 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:38,480 Morning! Good morning. 787 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,080 Morning. How are you? 788 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,160 Right, peeps, come and take your seats. 789 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,600 Have we got anyone else who's married who lives on the island? 790 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,800 No. No, just us. 791 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,000 Just us. Yeah, just us. 792 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,920 Yeah. 793 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,200 It's pretty cool. 794 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,480 The kids get on really well with everyone 795 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,560 and they go and socialise with all the guys. 796 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,120 Like, Theo joining in with all the water sports crew. 797 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,200 He loves doing that, and it's really good for him as well. 798 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,560 They go to a school which is not totally different 799 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,040 to a school you'd go to in England. 800 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,120 They go to the park, which is the same as what you go to in England. 801 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,200 You know, they get homework. 802 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,320 They do maths, they do English, 803 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,640 they go to their friends' houses. 804 00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,680 When you're in this kind of job, 805 00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:26,360 you do tend to put a time on how long you're going to be somewhere, 806 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:31,240 but for the first time ever, I think we very much feel it's home. 807 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:34,680 I think, with the children being the age they are and being happy, 808 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,720 you stop thinking it's two, three years, 809 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:42,080 and so you can't really put a time length on how long we'll be here, 810 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,120 because right now it's fantastic. 811 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,800 We're really, really happy and we love it. 812 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,120 The biggest thing you miss being here is your family. 813 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,280 So that's the biggest compromise you make being here, 814 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,520 is not being near brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, 815 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,160 and all of those people. 816 00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,920 So, yeah, it would be great to have more of that, 817 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:06,280 but I guess it's just a decision you take with the lifestyle, 818 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,520 and with the job, and you make the most of it when you do get it. 819 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,320 While Kenny and Leesa are able to take their children to school, 820 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,080 workers like Agatha begin the day long before the school run. 821 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:23,840 I have to pay my bills. 822 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:28,960 I have to do what I have to do, so it's good. 823 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,360 This is a private resort, 824 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,640 so a little different to the other resorts. 825 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,280 So there's a lot of difference here. 826 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,400 What's the biggest difference? 827 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,200 It's expensive. 828 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,600 It's really expensive. 829 00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,480 What do you think you would do with that kind of money? 830 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:50,920 You could build a house. 831 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,680 I would build my own house. 832 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,680 Where do you live now, then? 833 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,480 In a rented apartment. 834 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,520 How many bedrooms have you got in your apartment? 835 00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,880 Two. The smallest, the younger one sleeps with me. 836 00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,840 So, if you had lots and lots of money, you'd build a house? 837 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,280 Yeah, a big one. 838 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,760 The master bedroom could be upstairs. 839 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,600 Downstairs, the family room. 840 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,920 But my bedroom would be upstairs. 841 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,440 Away from all the children? Yep. 842 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,800 Do you think money can buy you happiness? 843 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,000 Sometimes, yep. 844 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,920 If you have what you need, you'll be happy. 845 00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,840 So it can buy happiness, yeah. 846 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,200 OK, if I have my house, I'll be happy, so money will give me that. 847 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:42,600 So, yeah. 848 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,600 Not all the staff see the Caribbean 849 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,320 as a place where they could settle down and raise a family. 850 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,840 It looks like paradise. 851 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,480 The sun, the sea all year long. 852 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:02,080 For me, it's more like a holiday destination 853 00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,400 where you really enjoy a holiday, 854 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,520 and I definitely miss the seasons in France. 855 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,920 I love to be cold in the winter. 856 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:16,600 I love when the first sunny day comes in the summer, 857 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:21,200 or you're just so excited and happy to just have a drink on the terrace. 858 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,880 Here, at some point, you just forget about all these little things 859 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,800 and it's just hot all the time, 860 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,040 and you're complaining all the time because you're sweating. 861 00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,320 Yeah, how many do you want? Just one. Just one. 862 00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,880 Would you like it any deeper at all? 863 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,880 You could go a little deeper on the legs. 864 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,800 It's Robbie and Rachael's last day on the island. 865 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,840 They're having one final visit to the spa 866 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,920 before they head back to Ohio. 867 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,440 The staff here, I think one of the biggest worries about coming back 868 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,400 is what if they're not all here? 869 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,240 They really do make it... 870 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:05,000 ..better than any just luxurious place could be. 871 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,680 They add to the experience, 872 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,520 and everybody just gets along really well, 873 00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,880 and if feels like you're on vacation with all your friends, 874 00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,560 and, like, they're just part of your group of friends. 875 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,800 So, that's been above... 876 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,880 That's exceeded expectations. 877 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,160 The casual environment is just so cool. 878 00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,080 I mean, Richard's been... 879 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,160 He's just sitting at lunch, you know. 880 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,280 You walk up to the picnic table on the beach, 881 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,200 and he's just sitting there eating lunch with his wife Joan, 882 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:35,920 and they're just so friendly. 883 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:41,280 I basically pitched the idea that because I sell elevators or lifts, 884 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:47,280 I pitched to him basically having a lift on the island. 885 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,800 The saying in America is the "elevator pitch", 886 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,560 so you've got to do your business idea... 887 00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,840 You should be able to sum it up in about 90 seconds to two minutes. 888 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,040 And he said, "What if we do a lift here, 889 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,320 "and anybody that wants to pitch me on something 890 00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:07,320 "has to jump in the lift and ride it down, and in 90 seconds, 891 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,080 "if they can't sell me on it in that amount of time, 892 00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,000 "then that's their only chance." 893 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,120 We've had such a great week here, 894 00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,040 and had such a fab time with the staff, 895 00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,560 and it's been an absolutely amazing time, 896 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:30,080 and we've left and I have actually cried on Red Dock, leaving, 897 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,840 because you're thinking, "I don't know when I'm going to come back.". 898 00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,240 Have a good journey, guys. 899 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:38,160 Take care! 900 00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,200 Hope to see you really soon! 901 00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:42,920 See you later. 902 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,360 Bye, guys! 903 00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,080 Most of us ex-pats that live here, 904 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,680 we've left our families behind and so we're, you know, 905 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:10,840 we're each other's family and we're just closer, more open. 906 00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:15,240 There's more people that maybe wouldn't fit in in normal societies. 907 00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:17,200 You know, they're a bit different - 908 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,760 there's a lot of us here that are a bit different, 909 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,080 so it's interesting - you know, anything goes. 910 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,440 I don't like using the word paradise 911 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,800 because it seems like it's the best place, 912 00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,600 and I haven't been around that much. 913 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,000 I would like to explore much more. 914 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,640 Paradise? 915 00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:42,920 I'd say maybe a good job and a house in the Cotswolds in England. 916 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:49,920 Necker provides a little bit of a bubble around you, 917 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,240 so it must be difficult to move on from this. 918 00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:57,760 I think you definitely need to have a transition period 919 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,880 to get back into reality, normal life, whatever that is. 920 00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,040 We'll definitely live the rest of our lives on Necker 921 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,560 and our next lives too, if we have a choice. 922 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,720 I hate leaving Necker, 923 00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:16,120 but I'm back in two days' time, 924 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,120 so not gone for long. 925 00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:19,640 My life, it is unreal. 926 00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,720 I'm going to wake up from the most wonderful dream one day 927 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,560 and think, "Oh, what a pity. I wish I'd had that life." 928 00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,560 # We'll meet again 929 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,360 # Don't know where 930 00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,400 # Don't know when 931 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,200 # But I know we'll meet again 932 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,280 # Some sunny day 933 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,800 # Keep smiling through 934 00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:00,120 # Just like you always do... #