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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

  • 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.

  • 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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Balneotherapy for two at the Clarins spa

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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.