(Rates from $275.00)
Caraibes Beach Hotel
Cozy resort facing St. Martin's famed Orient Beach
General Information
What to expect: Popular with couples and small families, the resort draws guests who wish to join the sunbathers, strollers, and watersports enthusiasts on Orient Beach, which, with its beachfront restaurants and geometric patterns of lounge chairs and colored umbrellas, offers a European-beach ambience.
Amenity highlights: Two pathways lead 46 meters (50 yards) though beach foliage to Orient Bay Beach, a 2.4-km (1.5-mile) crescent of powdery sand on the Atlantic Ocean. Vendors offer a range of watersports. An open-air beachfront restaurant provides complimentary use of lounge chairs to resort guests. Freshwater swimming is available in the resort's 12-meter-long (40-foot-long), kidney-shaped pool bordered by a narrow sundeck furnished with thickly cushioned lounge chairs.
Insider tip: An open-air massage cabana lies in front of Waikiki Beach Bar & Restaurant 46 meters (50 yards) from the resort.
Property Amenities
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Caraibes Beach Hotel is part of a Caribbean-village-style development comprising small multicolored buildings with peaked roofs and an open-air shopping/dining center that includes a beauty shop, a fitness center, and a supermarket.
The on-site restaurant serves breakfast, and the property's grocery provides food and wine. High-speed Internet access is complimentary at the property's lobby computer.
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Parking (free)
- Multilingual staff
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Security guard
- Number of suites: 35
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors: 3
- Grocery
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - complimentary
- Internet access in public areas - high speed
- Internet access - wireless
Rooms
Caraibes Beach Hotel in St Martin offers 35 suites in five pale-peach buildings of three stories (no elevators). Suites feature ground-floor patios or second-floor balconies with teak dining sets and cushioned teak lounge chairs. They contain kitchenettes with two-burner range tops, microwave ovens, compact refrigerators, toasters, coffeemakers, dishes, and glasses. Decor and furnishings include tile floors, yellow walls, green-tile kitchenette counters, tropical-print fabrics, and bamboo-rattan furniture. Tile bathrooms contain glass-door showers (no tubs). Smoking is permitted in all rooms. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. |
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Room Amenities
- Wireless Internet access
- Cable/satellite television channels
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Internet access (complimentary)
- Kitchenette
- Coffee/tea maker
- Wake-up calls
- Housekeeping (daily)
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Television
- Cable television service
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Smoking permitted
- Rollaway beds
- Cribs (infant beds) available
- Wireless high-speed Internet access (complimentary)
Dining
This St Martin resort does not have its own restaurant, but two of Orient Beach's open-air beachfront restaurants lie 46 meters (50 yards) away, and the resort provides identification cards so guests can charge meals to their rooms at those two and at three others close by. Other restaurants and cafés are located in Orient Bay Village shopping center 91.5 meters (100 yards) from the resort.
Nearby restaurants:
Waikiki Beach Bar & Restaurant
La Playa Bar & Restaurant
Café Del Mar Restaurant
Recreation
Accessible by wooden pathways though dense beach foliage, Orient Bay Beach, a 2.4-km (1.5-mile) crescent of powdery sand on the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the island's principal windsurfing spots. The beach also includes a clothing-optional section a mile from the resort. Vendors along the beach offer a wide range of other watersports. Open-air restaurants are spaced along the beach, and one of the two nearest the resort provides complimentary lounge chairs to the resort's guests. Guests can also rent lounge chairs and umbrellas up and down the beach.
For freshwater swimming, the resort offers a 12-meter-long (40-foot-long), kidney-shaped pool screened by greenery and bordered by a narrow sundeck furnished with thickly cushioned lounge chairs.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal watercraft nearby
- Swimming on site
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Motor boating nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Volleyball nearby
- Scooter/Moped Rentals nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane sightseeing nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Playground nearby
Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Pets not allowed
- Check-in time is Noon
- Check-out time is 11 AM