Spa and Beach Vacation Guru

The resorts and hotels of Anguilla are many and varied. It ranges from grand, luxurious and upscale resorts to apartments and villas to small and locally owned inns. Many of these lodgings do not provide in-room TV but some can provide at request.Similarly, air-conditioning may not be available in some rooms. Therefore, please do make a special request if these two facilities are necessary for you.

Rendezvous Bay

Anguilla Great House Beach Resort $$

Located on the spectacular Rendezvous Bay, a 4 km crescent of dazzling white sand fringed by the turquoise Caribbean Sea, the Anguilla Great House Beach Resort is an intimate and romantic hideaway with its white and cotton candy color West-Indian style bungalows. These cottages with their gingerbread trim sit in landscaped gardens and each cottages contains a number of well furnished rooms that are decorated with local artwork, mahogany and wicker furnishings, tropical prints fabrics and ceiling fans.

Cooled by ceiling fans, rooms can be opened to capture the trade winds. Rooms numbered 112 and higher offer the best views; newer units aren’t as well located and lack views but come equipped with TV and internet access. Bathrooms are small but well kept. Its beachside amenities include lounge chairs, umbrellas, kayaks, sunfish sailboats, windsurfers, snorkeling as well as fishing gear.

To reserve a room at Anguilla Great House Beach Resort, click here.

CuisinArt Resort and Spa $$$$

Owned by CuisinArt and fronting a powdery beach of white sand, this luxurious and lushly landscaped beach resort with its white-washed villas crowned by blue domes and -lush tropical foliage seems straight out of Mykonos. Huge rooms (most are 900 square feet) are handsomely appointed with wicker and hardwood furnishings vividly upholstered with custom made Italian fabrics. The resort offers hydroponic farm and the only full-service resort spa in Anguilla. This hydroponic farm provides ultrafresh organic produce for the resort’s three excellent restaurant and ingredients for the spa’s unique treatments. Beside the farm, the resort also features a herb garden, an orchid solarium and a plant house.

To reserve a room at CuisinArt Resort and Spa, click here.

Rendezvous Bay Hotel $-$$$

Opened in 1962, Anguilla’s first resort sits amid 60 acres of coconut groves on Rendezvous Bay’s fine white sand. The original guest rooms, decorated in earth tones, are 100 yards away from the beach. Newer, connected, two-storey beachfront villas have spacious one-bedroom suites with high ceilings.

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Maundays Bay

Cap Juluca $$$$

This is one of the most boldly conceived, luxurious oases in the Caribbean, fronting one of the island’s best white-sand beaches. Overlooking the Maundays Bay on a rolling 72 hectare (178 acre) site, Cap Juluca caters to Hollywood stars and financial barons and offers serious pampering. This is the only resort to match the classy Malliouhana. Cap Juluca is more fun loving and has a festive atmosphere, whereas Malliouhana is more subdued. Malliouhana has superior dining and service, but Cap Juluca fronts a better beach, and its accommodation are plusher.

Most of the villa-style accommodations have soaring domes, walled courtyards, labyrinthine staircases, and concealed swimming pools ringed with thick walls so that you can take it all off. Cap Juluca’a enormous (700 square feet and above) rooms have Moroccan fabrics, Brazilian hardwood furniture, huge marble bathrooms, private patios, balconies, or sun roofs that render sea, sky and sand part of the décor. Thoughtful gestures include complimentary bush teas and afternoon sorbet at the beach.

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Meads Bay

Carimar Beach Club $$$-$$$$

This horseshoe-shape, bougainvillea-drape, Mediterranean-style complex on beautiful Meads Bay has an up-market Sun Belt condo look. Although only two buildings stand at the water’s edge, all have ocean views from balconies or patios. Bright white apartment splashed with flashy fabrics and artworks are fully equipped and well maintained. The friendly staff coupled with supreme beachfront location and several fine restaurants made this an excellent choice.

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La Sirena $$$-$$$$

The cheerful Swiss owners Rolf and Viviane Masshardt of
La Sirena ensure that this resort overlooking Meads Bay is well-run, warm, welcoming and lively. Amid tropical greenery, the resort features clean-cut, geometrically interesting angles and circular arches. The resort’s interior is a mix of contemporary touches and typical Caribbean design such as halogen lamps, rattan furniture, pastel-printed fabrics, potted plants and terra-cotta floors. Accommodations, arranged in two-storey bougainvillea-draped wings, are large and airy, with fine rattan and wicker furnishings. Some have air-conditioning and some comes with ceiling fans. Although the resort is a four-minute walk from the beach, its dependability and fun loving ambience is much appreciated by guests who return in droves.

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Malliouhana Hotel and Spa $$$$

The ideal blend of European sophistication and Caribbean warmth, Anguilla’s most classy resort is the vision of charming, hands-on owner Leon Roydon, whose passion for fine wine, art and horticulture is reflected in every aspects of Malliouhana. The resort is decorated with one of the world’s largest collection of Haitian art, alongside mahogany furnishings and bibelots from Leon’s travels. These decorations are so impressive that you might not be able to spot Julia Roberts sitting among the palms. It is even more spectacular than Cap Juluca-opulent and lavishingly decorated, and situated on a rocky bluff between two white sand beaches, Meads Bay Beach and Turtle Cove. Except for Cap Juluca’s fabulous digs and glitzier digs, Malliouhana out-dazzles in every other way. Its 10 hectares (25 acres) are lushly landscaped with terraces, banks of flowers, pools and fountains. Thick walls and shrubbery provide seclusion. A 224-member staff attends to 55 units and their motto is “Your wish is my command‿.

Spacious rooms and suites are distributed among the man buildings and the outlying villas. Each room is tropically furnished with wide private verandahs. Many rooms have luxurious four-poster beds plus spacious Italian marble bathrooms with bathtubs and shower stalls. For those with kids, the resort comes complete with a water park and pirate ship.

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Shoal Bay West

Covecastles Villa Resort

Covecastles is a hybrid of a collection of private homes and a monumental yet minimalist resort on a white-sand beach. Designed by award winning architect Myron Goldfinger in 1985 and expanded in 1998, the structure combines between elements from North Africa, the Caribbean, and the futuristic theories of Le Corbusier. Secluded (provided privacy that surpasses those provided by Cup Juluca), soaring two- to six-bedroom villas are decorated with custom-made wicker furniture, raw-silk cushions, and hand-embroidered linens in muted, soothing colors. Each villa has views of the sea, amid the dunes and scrublands of the southwestern coast. Guest rooms have louvered doors and windows crafted from Brazilian walnut, terra-cotta tiles, comfortably oversize rattan furniture, a fully equipped, state-of-the-art kitchen and a hammock.