The Grand Cayman Beach Suites (formerly Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman) will soon be a little taller.

Planning Permission has been granted to allow the owners of the West Bay Road hotel to build two additional stories and a new rooftop that will create 14 regular rooms and four deluxe suites.

Upon completion the hotel will have an added 30 feet to the structure, boosting it from 63 feet, 2 inches to 93 feet, 5 inches, and from 53 rooms to 71 rooms. New parking spaces will be set aside in two locations across the street, adjacent to Cambridge Realty and to the miniature golf course at Deckers Restaurant.

The property is owned by Embassy Investments and they have plans to expand the 12,934 square feet “east wing” facing West Bay Road, of the five-floor hotel, leaving the “south wing” untouched.

The fifth story will rise to 82 feet, topped by a roof terrace, which architects at DDL studios propose to enclose, converting the 5,449 square feet to seven standard guest rooms and two suites.

A new “pressurized” staircase will rise from the fifth floor through the rebuilt sixth story, reaching the prospective 7,485-square-foot seventh floor, providing seven regular rooms and two suites.  This will be identical to the floor below.

The Grand Cayman Beach Suites was named in Frommers Top 25 luxury hotels in Caribbean travel and leisure. Expedia readers named Grand Cayman Beach Suites as the #1 luxury resort in the Cayman Islands, consistently scoring 4.