Alamanda Resort

French side of St Maarten, access to Orient Beach

General Information

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What to expect: This St Maarten resort attracts couples and families seeking easy access to Orient Beach's European ambience of lounge chairs and colored umbrellas arranged in geometric patterns, as well as to watersports and to an adjoining open-air shopping/dining center.

Property Amenities

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A lobby kiosk provides dial-up Internet access (surcharge). Open-air restaurants line Orient Beach, and Alamanda Resort issues identification cards so guests can charge meals to their rooms at six of them.

The resort is part of a Caribbean-village-style development comprising little multi-colored buildings with peaked roofs and an open-air shopping/dining center (with supermarket) that lies adjacent to Alamanda Resort.

Rooms

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This St Maarten resort offer 42 guestrooms in two buildings of two stories (no elevators) painted in bright pastels and decorated in fretwork of contrasting colors. Rooms feature ground-floor verandas or second-floor balconies with teak lounge chairs and cocktail tables. They contain kitchenettes with two-burner rangetops, microwave ovens, compact refrigerators, toasters, coffeemakers, dishes, and glasses.

Ceiling fans offer a cooling alternative to rooms' air conditioning. Telephones include data ports for dial-up Internet access. Molasses-colored furniture with blond highlights combines raffia and wicker for a colonial-tropical look. Rocking chairs supply relaxation, and terra-cotta-tile floors furnish bare-foot ease.

Two color schemes, red-and-scarlet and green-and-yellow, contribute contemporary touches with coordinated cushions, throw pillow, drapes, and lamp shades. Botanical prints decorate pastel walls. Bathrooms with green-tile vanities feature separate tubs and stall showers. Smoking is permitted in all rooms.

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Dining

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Café Alamanda - Casual, open-air restaurant and bar, with seating under awning and under thatched-roof poolside gazebo. Breakfast, dinner served daily. Lunch offered during winter season. French and Caribbean cuisine, with dinner choices such as fish soup, onion soup, tuna tartare, escargots, chicken with ginger cream sauce, ribeye steak, salmon with tagliatelle, and scallops with rum-ginger Creole sauce.

Recreation

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From the resort's pool deck, a 46-meter-long (50-yard-long) stone path leads across a narrow parking lot to Orient Bay Beach, a 2.4-km (1.5-mile) crescent of powdery sand on the Atlantic Ocean that's one of the island's principal windsurfing spots and includes a clothing-optional section a mile from Alamanda Resort. Vendors along the beach offer a wide range of other watersports as well. Open-air restaurants are spaced along the beach, and the nearest to Alamanda Resort provides complimentary use of lounge chairs to resort guests. Guests can also rent lounge chairs and umbrellas up and down the beach.

For freshwater swimming, the resort offers a 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) kidney-shape pool bordered by hedges and surrounded by a sundeck furnished with thatched shades and thickly cushioned lounge chairs. The resort provides complimentary snorkeling gear and children's beach toys. Use of two lighted tennis courts at a sister resort 274 meters (300 yards) away is complimentary.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

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