Need to know

Rooms

31, including four beach houses.

Rates

Low season, €490–€2,500; high season, €685–€3,155, including buffet breakfast and airport transfers.

Check-out

Midday; later check-out may be available on request.

Facilities

Gym, beauty treatments and massages, WiFi in public areas (on request), library, DVD selection, kayaks, snorkeling gear, boutique, art galley. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock, minibar, Bulgari toiletries.

Poolside

Several suites have private pools.

Children

Youngsters of all ages are welcome and babysitting can be arranged. The Harbour House – the owner’s villa – has a captain’s cabin ideal for young children of a nautical bent.

Hotel closed

29 August to 17 October 2009.

Also

Three-night minimum stay (ten over the Christmas period).

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Waterlily has the most impressive rockstar credentials, with a private infinity pool right on the beach, a Jacuzzi terrace set in the house’s own secluded gardens, and its own kitchen. Eden Rock’s most sought-after suite, however, has to be loft-based Howard Hughes. Perched at the very top of the main house, the triple-terraced bachelor pad is swanked up to the nines, with undulating aircraft-panel walls, white mosaic-tiled bathrooms and one hell of a view. Tucked away from the buzz, Colibri has a king-size four-poster and is decorated in Oriental silks. Eden Rock’s most unusual suite, the Reef, has been dug out of the rock beneath the main hotel.

Packing tips

Don’t weigh your bags down with unnecessary tomes – the hotel’s rooms are scattered with books, often themed according to their namesake – expect to find lots on Greta Garbo, Howard Hughes, etc.

Also

You can order in spa treatments, and relax with in-room massages, hair care, Ayurveda and other Asian therapies. There are yoga, gym and Pilates classes, and, for more of a mental wind-down, you can pick up a paintbrush and practise your landscapes.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

On the Rocks takes classy French cuisine and sexes it up with a dash or two of spice; expect lobster tails, sweet chilli snow crab and John Dory in hoi sin sauce. The Sand Bar is a lower key lunch venue, dripping barefoot beach chic.

Dress code

For lunch at the Sand Bar, Heidi Klein; for dinner at On the Rocks, Cavalli and Cartier.

Top table

On the terrace overlooking water and the palm-fringed beach.

Last orders

On the Rocks shuts its kitchen at 10pm, but drinks are served until 11.30pm. The Sand Bar serves lunch until 3.30pm and drinks until 6pm.

Room service

A full menu of meals and snacks is available 24 hours a day.

Hotel bar

As well as a bar on the Rock by the main restaurant, The Sand Bar doubles as a pub, (although it stretches the definition of ‘pub’ to include ‘swanky cocktail bar’), and serves a bewildering array of mojitos, martinis and margaritas.

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