Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa Hotel

Saint Barthelemy, Caribbean

Step into luxury lagoon life on the Grand Cul-de-Sac beach in St Barts at a hotel that offers the very best of the French Caribbean, from the cuisine and sunset yoga to sipping cocktails at the rooftop bar.

When a hotel is situated between a beach and a lagoon, on one of the most stunning white sandy shores in St Barts – with waters so pristine as to make Photoshop irrelevant – it would be very easy to rest on your god-given, natural-beauty laurels. And yet Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa on St Barts’ Grand Cul-de-Sac has thoughtfully put together a hotel that is arguably one of the best in the Caribbean. The rooms are full of light, simplistic, but strikingly beautiful, as you’d expect when they’re designed by highly sought-after French decorator Sybille de Margerie. She’s done everything she can to ensure that the interiors of the 44 suites and rooms reflect the tranquillity, seascape and natural glory of the exteriors.

Dining is, as you’d imagine given St Barts’ French connections, not to be sniffed at. Island-inspired modern French cooking is the theme, but there’s plenty of international flavours, too. You can indulge in anything from Black Angus to ceviche made with local fish, from spicy tuna tartare to beef tatataki taking you to the four corners of the gastronomic world
and back again. What else? Alfresco spa treatments, rooftop cocktails and sunset yoga on the beach. Book now.

Doubles from £508. 00 590 590 77 48 48, lebarthelemyhotel.com

Words by Alex Mead.

This review was taken from the March/April 2021 issue of Food and Travel.

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