St Barts should be on the top of everyone's bucket list. It is a stunningly beautiful island with incredible beaches, great shopping, and some of the best restaurants in the world.
Our St Barts Villas are without a doubt some of the best in the world. This combined with the stunning scenery and pristine white sandy beaches, makes St Barts a favored vacation destination for both our clients and our team of villa experts at Exceptional Villas.
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There are fourteen beaches on St. Barths, all blessed with gleaming white sand. Few are crowded, even in peak season. All are public and free and each has a distinct personality. All of the beaches are beautiful and many have steep sided bays with soft white sand descending gently into the beautiful turquoise water. Although nudity is officially banned going topless is common.
Lorient beach is also popular with families. It is a reef protected spot and great for swimming and snorkeling. In the winter, it provides some shade. To the left of the beach is a great surfing spot. It is fun to sometimes watch the hard core surfers catching a wave.
This beach is favored by surfers due to the usual onshore breeze. It is also adjacent to the Hotel Manapany.
Toiny beach is wild and stunningly beautiful but not for the faint-hearted. It is popular with surfers but is not recommended for swimming as the currents are strong.
Petit Cul de Sac is secluded and usually very quiet. Because of the depth of the bay, and the size of the fringing reef, the water here is usually quiet and calm.
Grand Cul De Sac is a lovely lagoon popular with families. The beach borders a shallow, well protected bay and the water warm and relatively calm. It has several restaurants, hotels and water sports are available including a windsurfing rental station. You can even take a kite surfing lesson if you wish. You should definitely try lunch at O’Corail when you are there.
Colombier is located in the northwest of St Barths. It can only be approached by a steep hiking path (25 minute walk) or catamaran overland which again makes it a wonderfully quiet and beautiful place to spend a day. The beach is perfect for swimming and snorkeling.
The view from Colombier stretches to the northwest towards the offshore island of Ile Fourchue which also has a good beach and protected cove. A lovely way to spend a day in St Barths is to take a gourmet picnic of chilled Champagne and Fois gras and enjoy it on the golden sands of Colombier.
Also on the South coast and located next to Saline Beach, Gouverneur Beach is really lovely and largely unspoiled. It has a superb stretch of sand surrounded by high cliffs. It offers good swimming and snorkeling by the rocks. It also offers a wonderful view of Nevis and St Kitts. The only way to get to Gouverneur is by a steep narrow road so the beach is almost always quiet and well worth the short drive.
Anse de Grande Saline is located on the south coast of St Barths. It is considered to be one of the best beaches on the Island. It is unspoiled and spectacular. There is a rocky path leading to a sand dune and the view from the top is stunning. Just inland behind the beach is a large salt pond which before the arrival of tourism was used for salt harvesting.
Shell beach is short walk from the capital Gustavia, and the scene of many weekend festivities. You can take a dip in the wonderfully calm waters after a day’s shopping in the town. Restaurant Do Brazil is located on the beach. There is a lovely view to the islands of Statia and Saba. It is a good place to go when the other beaches are a bit too windy as it is almost always tranquil and calm enough for swimming and sun bathing.
Edged by coconut palms, Marigot Beach is a tranquil nature reserve with beautiful crystalline waters — ideal for swimming and snorkeling. It is almost always calm sheltered from the wind and ideal for mooring small pleasure craft.
Flamands Beach is one of the most beautiful on St Barths with a huge stretch of white sand fringed with palm trees. Here you will find the stunning Hotel Saint-Barth Isle de France as well as some of the best villas on the Island.
During the winter months, Flamand’s can sometimes have very impressive rolling surf making swimming dangerous.
St-Jean is one of the most popular and most chic beaches on St Barths. It actually comprises of two beaches divided in the middle by the famous and stunning Eden Rock villas. St Jean is also home to Nikki beach. It is a spectacular beach with pure white sands and calm turquoise waters which are perfect for snorkeling.
It is also a great place to people watch and to plane watch. The tiny planes come over the brow of the hill and land on the incredibly short runway at the end of the beach. If you are looking for some fun, then La Plage on St Jean beach is a good place to go on a Sunday.
St Barths is the best place in the Caribbean for luxury tax free shopping. It boasts the crème de la crème of international designer labels as well as some beautiful boutiques and designers that are unique to St Barths. There are some 200 shops and boutiques and if you are lucky enough to be in St Barths during the sales, you will be able to find some fantastic bargains.
Many of the hotels such as the Eden Rock and the Isle de France have beautiful boutiques and regular fashion shows take place especially in the restaurant at the Isle de France!
If you are looking for local products, the women of Corossol and Colombier produce some lovely baskets, handbags and broad brimmed hats.
You will also be able to find some really lovely locally produced lotions and oils made from the islands plants that make lovely gifts.
St Barths is also home to many talented artists and there are numerous galleries around the island to be discovered.
Forbes has named St Barths one of the World’s top 10 shopping destinations. The two main shopping areas are in Gustavia and in St Jean.
Gustavia is the larger of these two areas. It has three major shopping streets.
Louis Vuitton, Tod’s, Bulgari, Cartier, Chopard, Hermes, Dior, Bijoux De La Mer, Fabienne Miot.
Saint Barth Caravan, Les Artisans (jeweler), Ligne St Barth (cosmetics), Bazar boutik
Vanita Rosa, Marina St Barth
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St Jean’s pelican Shops are known for its chic boutiques and should not be missed. Here you will find beautiful shops full of the trendiest beachwear and chicest clothes.
Most shops in St Barths close for 2 or three hours during the day but stay open until 7pm. Sundays is the day off and all the shops are closed other than the hotel boutiques
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