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Hotels
As they await the arrival of the ARC race, many partners take advantage of Saint Lucia’s fabulous hotels How the other half lives
in most hotels but here it means you get uninterrupted views of those volcanic icons
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The furniture in the rooms is all intricately carved on site by local craftsman Boniface Modeste and these handiworks are complemented by artisan clay.
The hotel’s games room is a popular spot, with a pool tables and regularly playing classic movies.
The gardens are filled with striking bougainvillea, pomme d’amour and soursop trees and lilies which attracts green throated Caribbean hummingbirds and the indigenous Saint Lucia Oriole. At 2pm most days you can get a tour with head gardener Ray.
The hotel is perfectly placed for sunsets in the middle of the Pitons and the Dasheene Restaurant, which offers tasty Caribbean cuisine, or the Tcholit Bar are the perfect places to enjoy them.
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Viceroy Sugar Beach This hotel’s name tells you everything you need to know about its sweet location on a pristine white beach in the shadow of the Pitons.
The property sits on a former sugar plantation and the design of the rooms reflect this heritage – lots of individual cottages and villas decorated with sugar-white soft furnishings and surrounded by verandas where you can sit on wicker chairs with a mojito and watch the sun go down. All of the rooms have plunge pools, 24-hour room service, butlers and Nespresso machines.
As you wander through the property, you come across spectacular works of art – striking sculptures and modern paintings – as well as one-off pieces of furniture – a double daybed that is a swing or a high-backed seat in velvet in one of the bars or dining rooms.
There are free fitness sessions here and the platform where you can do yoga has to have one of the best views of any fitness studio anywhere.
Most people spend their days down on the beach, chilling out under a parasol or in the Bayside beach restaurant.
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Marigot Bay Resort Not everyone needs a view of the Pitons from their hotel and the Marigot Bay Resort has its own special location right on the bay.
The hotel clusters around a stunning pool with swim-up bar and there are vast, globe-shaped cabanas dotted around if you want to sunbathe like an A-lister. The pool area is surrounded by well-tended gardens that are a magnet for hummingbirds in the early morning. Half of the 124 rooms here are suites – some junior suites and all of the penthouse suites have their own plunge pools. The rooms are designed in plantation style with cool, crisp linen, wooden shutters and grand four-poster beds with The Spa at Marigot Bay is a popular destination for guests. Two of the most popular local treatments are a Fiksyon Fwote rub using warm bamboo sticks and volcano energy therapy using sulphur mud and volcanic hot stones. At the resort, you can even try your hand at blending your own rum in the resort’s rum cave after a trip to the market to pick up fresh spices.
Guests are assigned their own personal assistant who will call you up three weeks before your arrival. www.marigotbayresort.com
Marigot Bay Resort, right on the Bay Boucan Hotel‘s infinity pool
Boucan If you like a bit of chocolate then the only place to stay is at Boucan, the real-life Hotel Chocolat which sits in the 250-year-old plantation where the company’s cacao beans are grown.
As you would expect, chocolate is a central theme here. You can take part in a chocolate making course, sip a chocolate cocktail in the bar or have a caco-mint massage in the hotel spa.
Boucan is a small and exclusive place to stay and it is adults-only. The
accommodation is in beautifully designed lodges, all with views of the Petit Piton and with open-sky rainforest showers. The woods used in the design are as dark as the 80% chocolate. The reflection of the volcanic dome in the hotel’s infinity pool is must-do photo opportunity.
The property is 1,000 above sea level up in the mountains so is blissfully cool when it gets hot but there is also a regular shuttle down to the local beach. www.hotelchocolat.com/boucan
