Pop, lock & drop it
November 2016
There's a great-value, feel-good place on Crocus Bay selling barbecued baby-back ribs and Piña Coladas. Everyone tries to get to da'Vida by 11am to bag a lounger in the shade, but even if you're late someone will shuffle along to share. [...]

And the grandparents came too
August 2016
For a proper take-to-the-high-seas-me-hearties adventure, opt for Tiger Blue, a traditional jaw-dropper of an Indonesian phones that sleeps 10. Inside, it’s all cool Balinese style (including child-friendly cabins), while outside are sprawling decks, billowing sails and outdoor beds for those who wish to sleep beneath the stars. [...]

St Barth’s never stands still, but this is getting ridiculous
July-August 2016
Nine square miles for 9,000 people: St Barth’s is one of the most coveted patches on the planet. And it’s no ragtag bunch who call it home, or second home (or place to park the superyacht). There are, bien sur, the French, insanely chic, floating around in white cotton dresses and Lacoste. The lovely LVMH outpost, Isle de France, is stuffed to its whitewashed rafters [...]

The Caribbean Revival
July-August 2016
This is not the St Barths most of us know and adore. Hidden away on the other side of the island from the capital Gustavia, La Côte Sauvage is a place where the wind blows hard and the shore is rocky; it feels more like pirate country than a haven for the cosseted. There are no restaurants by Jean-Georges Vongerichten here, no Guerlain spas and no Hermès stores [...]

What’s happening on St Barth’s
January 2016
Le Guanahani. Texan owner David Bonderman has spent $40million renovating this hotel in a wonderful northern-peninsula location with beaches on both sides: sea-facing Marigot Bay and Grand Cul-de-Sac, a reef-protected lagoon. Miami-based designer Luis Pons has revamped the pretty clapboard cottages on the lagoon side with a fresh, pared-back colonial look [...]

Dream Team
Winter 2015-2016
Unlike other general managers, often tucked away in their windowless offices, Christelle breezes around the hotel: fresh, French, all style and all smiles, as frontline as she is back office. And no wonder — she started more than ten years ago in the restaurant of this French Caribbean outpost and has since seamlessly made her way up to the top job. [...]

Ride the waves: Nonsuch Bay, Antigua
July 2014
There are few better locations to find your kitesurfing mojo than this place -- a smart, family-friendly resort with a reef-protected bay, consistent trade winds, warm Caribbean waters and star instructors Chris & Susi, who will get you downwind (in a few days), upwind (in a week) and eventually flipping out (you’ll be hooked for life). [...]

The French Antilles: where France meets the Caribbean
November 3, 2013
The approach to St Barths, seen from behind the open-door cockpit of a Twin Otter, becomes an instant favourite of mine. The plane flies low in the V between two peaks; as we head through the pass, the pilot pushes the joystick forward in what feels like a dive. At the last moment he pulls up and flares, squeaking down the wheels and pressing hard on the brakes. [...]