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Boutique Hotels |
| This selection of smaller properties is for those of you seeking a ‘house party’ ambience and distinctly personal service. Whether fashionable retreats on the beach or historical inns in the mountains, or small luxury hotels in the world, these boutique small luxury hotels also have plenty of character and a well-deserved reputation for fine dining ... |
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Lonestar - Barbados
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This pocket-sized hotel has garnered a fashionable following since opening in 1998. First there is its setting; so close to the Caribbean Sea that the ocean views are all that’s required for entertainment. Then there’s its trendy boardwalk-style restaurant, with its eclectic blend of seafood dishes and international favourites. And finally there is the fact that it has just four rooms and a beach house, which endows it with the air of a European-style pension where you get to know the staff and they get to know you with reassuring swiftness. Of course, there’s plenty a hotel of this size can’t have on-site, but a host of water sports are just a brief walk down the beach and tennis and golf can easily be arranged.
7 nights from £2,235 p.p. high-season & £1,510 p.p. low-season, including breakfast.
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Royal Plantation - Jamaica
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A 77-suite hideaway perched on a hilltop overlooking the Caribbean Sea. Built almost 50 years ago with classic Caribbean style, this recently-refurbished oceanfront property offers lavish all-suite accommodation and four speciality restaurants to go with its stunning sea views and two private white sand beaches. A champagne and caviar bar, as well as a fine dining seafood restaurant are just two of the reasons to put it on your list, although the wide-ranging recreational facilities, including a spa, tennis and watersports, also come as a nice surprise.
7 nights from £1,470 p.p. high-season & £1,230 p.p. low-season, no meals included.
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Strawberry Hill - Jamaica |
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Strawberry Hill is quite unique, combining Jamaica’s famous Blue Mountain scenery with elegant plantation-style living and all the associated glamour of legendary record producer, Chris Blackwell. A mountain hideaway, it stands over 3,100-feet above sea level on the site of an 18th-century working plantation, its studios and suites all designed for romantic stays and sublime mountain views. Four-poster beds, hardwood floors, Jamaican art and plenty of ‘little touches’ are standard features. The on-site restaurant features highly-rated ‘new Jamaican cuisine’, whilst the weekend afternoon teas and Sunday brunches are very popular with local visitors. The fitness room, Aveda Concept Spa, mountain bikes, walking tours and negative-edge swimming pool keep guests in shape and totally rejuvenated.
7 nights from £1,355 p.p. high-season & £1,300 p.p. low-season, on a no-meals basis.
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Goldeneye - Jamaica |
If you’ve ever fancied living the James Bond-lifestyle, a few weeks at Goldeneye is probably as close as you’ll ever get - this 15-acre hideaway, secreted away on an oceanfront bluff thirty-minutes east of Ocho Rios, is where Ian Fleming penned all his famous ‘007’ novels! Nowadays it’s an Island Outpost property and visitors are offered a choice of 3 different vacation experiences – Ian Fleming’s own three-bedroom house, four different villas with up to three bedrooms each or the entire property. All meals and drinks are included in stays here, the chef specialising in fresh seafood and authentic Jamaican dishes, whilst activities include tennis and non-motorised water sports, as well as use of the secluded Low Cay Beach.
7 nights from £2,275 p.p. high-season & £1,825 p.p. low-season, on a fully-inclusive basis.
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Ottley’s Plantation Inn - St. Kitts |
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Ottley’s Plantation is what St. Kitts is all about. Beginning life as a 17th-century sugar plantation, it has now been lovingly converted into one of the grandest inns in the Caribbean. And whilst many people find everything they need right on the premises – a swimming pool, spa, tennis court, croquet lawn, nature walks and panoramic ocean views – a daily shuttle service takes 15-minutes to transport guests to the beach or into town. Accommodation is provided by just 24 air-conditioned guest rooms situated either in the main house or in cottages nestled within the gardens. Pamela Yahn supervises the new island-style cuisine of the acclaimed Royal Palm restaurant, with lunches more casual affairs, often taken around the pool.
7 nights from £1,440 p.p. high-season & £1,115 p.p. low- season, on a no-meals basis.
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Rawlin's Plantation - St. Kitts |
One of the Caribbean’s finest country house hotels, Rawlin’s Plantation owes its appeal to a variety of factors. First, there is its cuisine, a creative mélange of West Indian and Cordon Bleu that owes its success to owner, Claire Rawson. Then there is its English ‘country house’ ambience, achieved by 12-acres of gardens, an antique-filled Great House and ten cottage-style rooms. And finally, there is its tranquil setting, 350-feet high on the slopes of Mount Liamuiga. A spring-fed swimming pool, grass tennis court and croquet lawn are right on-site, with the finest beaches and an 18-hole golf course a 40-minute drive away. Car hire is recommended, yet why would anyone want to leave for too long?
7 nights from £1,535 p.p. high-season & £1,190 p.p. low-season, on a room only basis.
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