Eden Rock
St Barths, Saint Barthélemy
Style Paradise found
Setting Silky sands of St Jean
Once a hangout for the A-list likes of Greta Garbo, Howard Hughes and the adventurer-mayor of St Barts, Eden Rock hotel has become one of the Caribbean’s must-stays for Hollywoodites on downtime. Perfectly positioned beside one of St Barts’ most beautiful beaches, the hotel reeks of star quality, with turquoise ocean views at every turn, fine wines on every table, and luxurious spa treatments on tap.
Need to know
- Rooms 31, including four beach houses.
- Rates Double rooms from $3223.86 (€2,450). Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of 5% per person per night on checkout.
- More details Rates include buffet breakfast and airport transfers.
- 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.
- Check-out Midday; later check-out may be available on request.
- 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. More...
- Hotel closed 29 August to 15 October 2010.
- Also Three-night minimum stay (ten over the Christmas period).
Food and drink at Eden Rock
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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.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Eden Rock Bay of Saint-Jean, St Barths, 97133
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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.
From the Guestbook…
Eden Rock is simply out of this world. After the well-renowned hair-raising flight that lands right on the beach, you will get picked up by the hotel's driver and taken straight to...
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