The best of St Barts' hotels

St Barts' original luxury hotel, Eden Rock St Barths still has enduring star power, but a duo of spruced-up competitors are hoping to attract their fair share of international glitterati.
 
ABC Life Style, Feb-08,2016

In the early 1950s it cost the entrepreneur Remy de Haenen just a few hundred dollars to buy a rocky and disregarded promontory by the Bay of St Jean in St Barts. Back then the people of this remote, minuscule island subsisted primarily on the revenue generated by salt production. The potential London-born Frenchman de Haenen saw in that forgotten stretch of coastline motivated him to open the island’s first luxury hotel, Eden Rock St Barths, in 1953, and in so doing kick-started the metamorphosis of the island from languid, forgotten Caribbean idyll into one of the world’s most exclusive and expensive holiday destinations. Continue Reading...