Mr & Mrs Smith

Le Sereno

St Barths, Saint Barthélemy

Join the turtles and tropical fish at Le Sereno’s coral reef cove and, when underwater adventures pall, retreat to this handsome hotel’s Parisian-style rooms and restaurant, set on a sparkling stretch of St Barths sand.

Need to know

• Rooms 37, including 23 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $613.30 (€490), excluding tax at 5 per cent.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€490), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates include breakfast, tax, airport transfers and a personal guide through customs.
• Facilities Spa, gym, gardens, a stash of DVDs and CDs, and free WiFi throughout. In-rooms: flatscreen TV, iPod dock, DVD/CD player and minibar.
• Poolside The hotel is rightly proud of its freshwater outdoor pool, which is just a belly-flop from the ocean. Soaring palm-trees in the background add to the totally tropical feel.
• Check-out 12 noon but flexible, subject to availability and a small charge. Check in, from 2pm.
• Children Welcome: cots are free, extra beds are €90.
• Hotel closed September to October.
• Also Lucky dogs can holiday here too. Smokers can light up outside.

Food and drink at Le Sereno

• Hotel restaurant Restaurant des Pêcheurs is styled with sandy simplicity: directors’ chairs in creamy white linen set around wooden tables, and seating split between an ‘inside’ area under the roof of the bar, and out on the sand. The restaurant’s name says it all: expect fish and more fish (we like the whole fish encrusted in sea salt best). At night, candles glimmer, palm-trees sway against atmospheric uplighting, and the real world feels very, very far away.
  
• Dress code Beachside billionaire: smooth linens, white shirts, gold accents.
• Top table Stake out a table in the sand, and scrunch the grains between your toes.
• Last orders Drinks are served as long as guests are thirsty. When it comes to eating, this hotel is a flexible fellow: want dinner at breakfast, or breakfast at dinner? Easily arranged.
• Room service Items from the restaurant menu are available 24 hours a day.
• Hotel bar Dangerously good-looking French barmen decorate the drinking area, set within the bounds of the restaurant/bar pavilion. Chocolate-coloured leather banquettes pop with saffron-yellow cushions; Liaigre barstools are carved from dark tropical wood. Low coffee tables, deep lounge chairs and industrial metal lamps are other triggers of design lust. Try a cocktail or two (there are daily specials), and ask the staff about the next rum-tasting session…
  
  
  

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Le Sereno Grand Cul de Sac BP 19, Saint Barth, 97133