Hotels in St. Lucia
Most of the leading hotels on this island are pretty pricey; you have to really search for the bargains. However, many of the big resorts here are frequently featured in packages. Once you reach your hotel, chances are good you'll feel pretty isolated, which is exactly what most guests want. Many St. Lucian hostelries have kitchenettes where you can prepare simple meals. Prices are usually quoted in U.S. dollars. Most hotels also add a 10% service charge. (Ask if it's been included in the initial hotel rate you're quoted.)
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Anse Chastanet
St. Lucia's premier resort still has the right stuff, and good bones—both natural and manmade—have a lot to do with it. The open-air rooms and villas are terraced into a lush hillside, and it's a steep 103-step descent to the resort's azure cove and white-sand beach. Some…$$$Soufrière - Hotel
Balenbouche Estate
One of the best lodging deals on the island is also one of its choicest, especially for those who want a full-throttle immersion in the lush life of a St. Lucian plantation. This eco-retreat and 70-acre organic fruit farm began as a rum and sugar plantation in colonial 18th-century…$Laborie - Hotel
Bay Gardens Beach Resort & Spa
It's hard to beat this location right on Reduit Beach, one of the island's best stretches of sand. Besides the prime perch on Reduit, Bay Gardens is practically within spitting distance of all the eateries and action in Rodney Bay Village. (Spinnaker's Bar & Restaurant is right…$$Gros Inlet - Hotel
Boucan Hotel
Where Balenbouche and Fond Doux give guests a taste of vintage plantation life, this boutique hotel dials it up a notch or three to plantation luxe. We're talking preloaded iPods, open-sky rainforest showers, and a black-quartz infinity pool. But a stay at the Boucan is much more…$$$Soufrière - Hotel
Calabash Cove Resort & Spa
Small, choice, and peaceful, this boutique all-inclusive resort has a lovely hillside location overlooking Bonaire Bay. It just seems to get everything right, from the personalized service from a crackerjack staff to the spacious and smart-looking cottages and villas, many with…$$$Gros Islet - Hotel
Cap Maison
This upmarket boutique hotel in the Cap Estate neighborhood gets raves for its roomy, Spanish Caribbean–style accommodations and personalized service. Lush tropical landscaping adds to the Mediterranean-villa ambiance, terraced in cliffs along the island's northern flank, with…$$$Cap Estate - Hotel
East Winds Inn
This small, all-inclusive beachfront resort offers a winning combination of old-fashioned charm and pampering attention to detail. Set in a lush garden of fantastical tropical flora (overseen by a crack garden staff), East Winds is that warm, welcoming place that guests…$$$Gros Islet - Hotel
Fond Doux Resort & Plantation
For those who favor peaceful rusticity and historic charm over hermetically sealed, gadget-centric modernity—and really, on an island so lushly alive, why wouldn't you?—a stay in a Creole cottage at this restored Green Globe–certified eco-resort should cure whatever ails you.…$$Soufrière - Hotel
Jade Mountain
There are no "rooms" here, only "sanctuaries," and if that means they make you feel like a pasha swanning about in silks, then I say go with it. In art-filled suites of Barbados coral and rain-forest hardwoods, the fourth wall is nothing but silken air, with the mossy Pitons…$$$Soufrière - Hotel
La Haut
This wonderful B&B has a ringside seat to the full glory of the Pitons. It also has a past: The century-old guesthouse buildings were once part of a cocoa and coconut plantation and you can get a tour of the estate grounds, complete with farm animals, on your visit (the…$$Soufrière - Hotel
Ladera
This ethereal honeymooners' hideaway dispenses with modcons like TVs, phones, and even air-conditioning. But the sweeping views of sparkling Jalousie Bay and the Pitons from this breeze-filled ridge top (some 1,100 ft. above sea level) make flat-screens and other digital…$$$Soufrière - Hotel
Rendezvous Resort
Set on the sands of Malabar Beach, this couples-only all-inclusive unabashedly touts its romance cred. From honeymooners to boomers to midlifers here to "recharge their relationships away from the distractions of work and family," Rendezvous is, as they like to say, a "harbor" for…$$$Castries - Hotel
Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa & Beach Resort
This Jamaica-based chain muscled onto St. Lucia in the 1990s and now operates three full-service, all-inclusive resorts on some of the island's best beaches. (Many give this one a slight edge over the others, maybe because it has the most toys.) Even if you don't particularly love…$$$Gros Islet - Hotel
Sugar Beach Viceroy
Set in a 320-acre palm grove, this Viceroy resort has plenty of tony touches (voile-draped fourposters, claw foot bathtubs) plus one of the best oceanfront locales on St. Lucia. Sugar Beach is sweet indeed, graced with powdery white sand (reputedly imported from Guyana) and a…$$$Soufrière - Hotel
The BodyHoliday LeSPORT
Yet another of St. Lucia's adults-only all-inclusives, this upscale beachside resort smartly specializes in mind-body spa vacations. The spa has something like 50 treatment rooms, so conceivably you could just bounce from one to the other like some well-oiled, blissed-out…$$$Gros Islet - Hotel
The Landings
For high-end comfort, comvenience, and sheer luxury of space, it's hard to beat the truly spacious one-, two-, and three-bedroom villa suites at the Landings on Rodney Bay. You have the best of both worlds here: a breezy white-sand beach with warm Caribbean seas outside, and…$$$Rodney Bay - Hotel
Ti Kaye Village Resort
An oasis of "rustic elegance," this secluded Creole-style hideaway is terraced across a rocky cliff face overlooking Anse Cochon. Each of the 33 gingerbread cottages has its own balcony (with double hammock), private outdoor garden shower, and splendid sunset views. Handsome…$$Anse Cochon
