Luxury bepoke holidays to Belmond La Samanna, St Martin
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location St Martin
Annual opening All year except from 24 July to 7 November
Closest airport Princess Julkiana International Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is 10-minutes' drive from the airport
Hotel facilities and services
Restaurants, Bars, Swimming Pool, Fitness, Spa, Private Beach Cabanas, 24-hour Room Service, Tennis, Water Sports, Yoga, Pilates, Laundry, Boutique, Airport Transfers.
Complimentary
Non-motorised Water Sports, Use of Fitness Room and Tennis Courts
Complimentary watersports
Kayaking, Hobie Cat Sailing, Paddle Boarding, Snorkelling.
Land sports
Fitness,Yoga, Pilates, Tennis.
Out and about nearby
Located in an affluent residential area with shops and restaurants.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Deluxe ocean view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£2,870 low season
£3,920 high season
Holiday Code CE74
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Belmond La Samanna, St Martin
Room descriptions
Belmond La Samanna has 83 rooms, suites and villas, each with bathroom, air-conditioning, ceiling fan, telephone, radio, safe, satellite TV, hair-dryer, espresso machine, fridge, patio, balcony, terrace or patio.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Deluxe ocean view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£2,870 low season
£3,920 high season
Holiday Code CE74
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Belmond La Samanna, St Martin
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Belmond La Samanna in St Martin, Expressions Holidays includes flights from London to Antigua with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic. The flying time is about 8 hours and 30 minutes. There is then an onward flight by Liat or private charter from Antigua to St Martin.Belmond La Samanna is a 15-minute drive from the airport and Expressions Holidays will organise private car transfers.
Additional information
Minimum stays: 10 nights minimum stay during Christmas period starting 24 December. Guests must arrive on or before 24 December.
Children: Children under 12 stay free of charge when sharing a room with parents. Children under 5 are not allowed in the gastronomic restaurant at dinner time. Rollaway beds can be provided.
Other information: Small pets under 15 lbs are permitted for a fee.
Special offers
Call to make your booking and save an extra £50 per adult Call us instead of emailing us when you are thinking of booking a holiday and save an extra £50 per adult (in addition to any special offers that might be available). We want to talk to you to discuss your requirements and a phone call is usually the best way for you to define what you want enabling us to respond more accurately. We want to talk to you and you save an extra £50 per adult.
Caribbean special offers update All current special offers for Caribbean hotels will be built into the price at the point of enquiry. That way the most up-to-date offers will be applied to your holiday price.
It was an excellent holiday - due to excellent planning on your side. Super efficient, very professional.Mrs F, Holiday to Norway, Oct 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Deluxe ocean view double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£2,870 low season
£3,920 high season
Holiday Code CE74
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bepoke holidays to Belmond La Samanna, St Martin
About St Martin
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to St Martin offers stunning scenery, luxury accommodation and a wide array of activities. So dear to both French and Dutch hearts that neither colonial power could bear to give it up, St Martin – or St Maarten to the Dutch – is the only one of more than 7,000 Caribbean islands that ended up being shared by two nations. It is easy to see why: bone-white beaches lapped by cobalt shallows, and classical conical peaks rising out of the sea – it’s a stunning island. Today, St Martin has lost none of the physical beauty that made it such a coveted prize, although with plenty of flat areas, it is more developed than most of its Caribbean cousins. In fact, although boasting more than 40 beautiful beaches, as well as a string of superb resorts to rival any in the region, St Martin’s unique charm today lies in its dual-identity: two colonial Carib nations for the price of one, with the whole very greater than the sum of its parts. At times, the two sides seem almost to exaggerate their personalities, so keen is the rivalry between them. If that sounds tense, it’s not: this is a friendly rivalry, with both sides proud of their colonial roots: the French with their food that could transport you back to a top Paris restaurant, the Dutch with their hedonistic beach bars and nightlife.
Highlights of St Martin
Gourmet restaurants on the French-side, particularly in Grand Case and Marigot Bay; Creole cuisine in beach shacks and local cafes; zouk music, a kind of Creole music unique to the French Caribbean; Carnival at the beginning of Lent (taking place over Easter on the Dutch side); 40-plus beaches; fantastic beach bars, particularly on Friar’s Bay, with great full-moon parties; local speciality of sticky ribs and a beachside lolo shack; catamaran trips to smaller satellite islands such as Ilet Pinel, Tintamarre or Prickly Pear all the way out near Anguilla; Sunset Beach Bar on Maho beach at the end of the airport runway, not for the faint-hearted (bikini contests a regular feature), but a real St Maarten’s institution; the Oyster Pond, a quiet half-French, half-Dutch harbour in the east of the island; historic towns of Philipsburg (Dutch side capital) and Margiot (French side); diving Wreck Alley, including a 200-year old British frigate.
Travel around St Martin
Although the island is divided into two separate land claims, there are no official borders, so you can travel to both parts quite freely. Buses are by far the cheapest method of transportation, but with no set schedules, it’s a bit hit and miss. Few official bus stops, so you need to flag them down. Taxis are good for short distances, hire cars better if you want to explore the island further. You can also take trips by boat and plane from St Martin to the nearby islands of Anguilla, St Barts, Saba and Statia.
Facts in brief
Capital Margiot (French side) and Philipsburg (Dutch side)Airport Juliana (in Dutch St Maarten)
Size 20 sq. miles (French part) and 17 sq. miles (Dutch part)
Population 35,000 on French side; 38,000 on Dutch side
