New Year in St Barts: Villas, Flights and How Early to Book
New Year in St Barts is the single most competitive fortnight in Caribbean villa rental. The harbor fills with yachts, the island’s population multiplies, and villas that sit available in October are gone eighteen months before the dates they are gone for. If you want to be there, the useful question is not which villa […]
St Barts Villas for Large Groups: What Sleeps 14, 18 and 22
St Barts is an island of small villas. Most sleep eight or ten, a good number sleep twelve, and the number that take more than sixteen can be counted on one hand. If your group is large, the shortlist is short — and over the peak weeks it is timing rather than preference that decides […]
St Barts Travel Guide: The Island, the Arrival and When to Go
St Barthelemy — St Barts — is a French collectivity of about eight square miles in the northern Caribbean, and its whole character follows from two facts: development is capped, and the airport cannot take jets. Those constraints are the reason the island stays quiet, expensive and almost entirely villa-based. This guide covers how to […]
Where to Stay in St Barts: Every Corner of the Island Compared
St Barts is eight square miles, and you can drive across it in about twenty minutes. That makes the choice of where to stay feel low-stakes — and it is not. The island’s corners differ enormously in privacy, noise, water and whether you can walk anywhere at all. Here is each one, with the villas […]
Flying Into St Barts: What First-Timers Get Wrong
St Barts’ Gustaf III Airport has one of the shortest commercial runways in the world and no lights on it — which means a routine weather delay can turn into an extra night on St Martin if your flights aren’t timed with that in mind. Most first-timers don’t get the island wrong; they get the […]
St Barts vs Anguilla: Which Caribbean Island for Your Villa?
St Barts vs Anguilla compared — beaches, scene, dining, villas, and families. Glamour or barefoot luxury? Choose the right island; every charge itemized in a written quotation.
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