Hotel Guanahani & Spa
St Barthélemy, Saint Barthélemy
Style Totally tropical Technicolor
Setting Balmy, palmy St Barths beach
Dotted on a slender isthmus of golden sand between the Caribbean Sea and an aquamarine lagoon, this St Barths boutique hotel is a rainbow of bright- and pastel-shaded cottages. With a young, laid-back ambience and a soul-reviving spa, Hotel Guanahani & Spa is all about easygoing easy living.
Need to know
- Rooms 68, including 37 suites (14 with private pools).
- Rates Double rooms from $811.51 (€615), excluding tax at 5 per cent.
- More details Rates include transfers and Continental breakfast in your room, or American breakfast in the Indigo restaurant.
- Facilities Clarins spa, gym, tennis courts, library, DVD/CD selection, boutique shop. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock; Clarins and Fekkai toiletries.
- Poolside Flanking the Indigo restaurant, Guanahani’s infinity pool is surrounded by lounger-laden decking, which overlooks the palm-shaded beach and culminates in a large Jacuzzi.
- Check-out Midday, but flexible, subject to a €300 late check-out fee.
- Children The hotel is well suited to smaller guests, offering a kindergarten during the day and an activity club for six- to 12-year-olds. Extra beds cost €100; kids under six stay free. More...
- Also Guests have access to a variety of watersports, including snorkelling, kitesurfing, windsurfing and canoeing. Jet-skiing, sailing, fishing and scuba-diving cost extra.
Food and drink at Hotel Guanahani & Spa
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Hotel restaurant
Bartolomeo is Guanahani’s gourmet offering, serving fine French food – with worldwide influences – for dinner only (closed Mondays and Tuesdays). Down by the pool, Indigo presents a more low-key, laid-back gastronomic alternative throughout the day.
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Dress code
Crisp and colourful. -
Top table
Out on the terrace with a view of the gardens. -
Room service
24 hours. -
Hotel bar
Seductively lit and terracotta-tiled, Barto Bar is a cosy, clubby and upmarket sanctuary of French boho with Moroccan streaks.
Hotel Guanahani & Spa Grand Cul de Sac, St Barthélemy, 97133
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Smith extra at Hotel Guanahani & Spa
Balneotherapy for two at the Clarins spa
In the know
Our favourite rooms
For all-out pampering pleasure, take the Ocean View Wellness mini-suite. As well as 180-degree ocean views, this butler-serviced, loft-style hideaway above the spa includes a free treatment for each guest every day and private spa access. The two-bedroom Pelican Suite has an outdoor Jacuzzi.
Packing tips
If you’re keen to dive, bring along your PADI certification – or if you’re only a wannabe water baby, become qualified here.
Also
Don’t bother with that pre-holiday haircut – Guanahani has a branch of NYC’s hottest hairdresser and stylist to the stars, Frédéric Fekkai.
