Anse Chastanet Resort
The luxurious Anse Chastanet Resort is complimented by the natural scenic beauty of St.Lucia’s soft sandy beaches bordering on blue coral reefs. Other spectacular surroundings include the Twin Pitons Mountains offering an amazing backdrop as St Lucia’s world heritage site. Located on a hillside beach, Anse Chastanet boasts 49 rooms, each designed uniquely and hidden away on a tropical garden or dotted around the hillside. Resort facilities include two bars and restaurants, the Kai Belté spa and for the adventurous there are mountain bike facilities with a 12 mile trail, a centre for kayaking and a 42 ft sailing yacht! There are also boutiques, a library, an art gallery and even a cocoa plantation where you can help harvest beans before creating marvellous treats at the resort's very own chocolate laboratory.
There is a shuttle service running between the mountainous resort and the beach but for those who are fit, there are lots of stairs to climb to the resort! The resort features one of the most accessible diving sites in the Caribbean Sea with a reef plateau 45.75 metres deep including a second beach located a 5-minute boat ride away. The diving centre offers full equipment as well as beginner lessons, certification courses, and off beach dives. The resort takes its environmental responsibilites very seriously and as such you can rest assured that the activities you partake in during your stay will not impact negatively on the local surroundings, the resort even runs its own farm.
For those interested in less demanding activities take a sunset cruise on the resort's yacht or go deep-sea fishing. If pure relaxation is the goal, the resort offers tours to the Soufrière's "drive-in" volcano springs and mineral baths. Yoga classes also run 5 days a week.
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Accommodation
Standard Garden View Room
The standard rooms have either coralina tiles, clay tiles or tropical hardwood floors, glass or wooden louvered windows, balconies with varying views. Average size: 350 sq ft. All of the standard rooms have fridges, electric water kettle, coffee makers and hair dryers. Handmade bathrobes and Molton Brown amenities are provided. There is daily housekeeping and turn down service. All rooms have kingsize beds, ensuite bathrooms with sink, shower and toilet. Upon request, extra bed or twin beds can be provided. In room amenities include fridge, coffee makers, in-room safes, hand made bathrobes, slippers, hair dryer, Molton Brown amenities, free wi-fi, twice daily housekeeping service with complimentary bottled water .
Superior Hillside Room
Superior rooms are located on the hillside and are octagonal or rectangular in shape, with 2 twin beds or one king size bed, with ocean and/or Piton view. Standard rooms are slightly smaller than Superior rooms with twin, queen or king size bedding, with garden or partaal ocean view.
Deluxe Beachside Room
All beachside rooms are Deluxe category rooms. Beachside Deluxe rooms are very spacious rooms with either 2 doubles or 1 king size bed, ensuite bathroom with 2 sinks, shower and toilet. They have clay tiles, wooden jalousie louvre windows, ceiling fans and large balconies or patios. All beachside rooms offer a tropical garden view and are just a few feet away from the water's edge. All rooms at Anse Chastanet are built in an airy fashion that allow for excellent natural ventilation, and all rooms also have ceiling fans. In addition, the beach deluxe rooms at Anse Chastanet are air-conditioned, this being an optional feature as louvres can instead be opened for natural air flow.
Deluxe Hillside
Hillside Deluxe rooms are extremely spacious and individually designed, some in a very open-air style with the fourth wall missing and some with dramatic open roof dormers. Some rooms have a formal separation between bedroom and living room, others are wide open spaces flowing into each other. Clay floor tiles or tropical hardwood floor, king size bed, wooden jalousie louvres, ceiling fans, balconies, and very large ensuite bathrooms with 2 sinks, shower and WC, Piton and/or ocean view.
Premium Hillside
Premium rooms are ANSE CHASTANET's rooms numbered 7, which offer picture postcard perfect views of the Piton mountains and the surrounding sea by virtue of their very elevated and strategic location. Some Premium rooms have fourth wall missing. All Premium hillside rooms have ceiling fans, clay floor tiles or tropical hardwood floors, wooden jalousie louvres, large ensuite bathrooms.
Casuarina Piton Pool Suite
Exquisitely finished with coralina stone tiles and hand crafted furniture made from tropical hardwoods, Casuarina is nestled amidst lush foliage in a private hillside setting at Anse Chastanet Resort, facing towards St.Lucia’s famous Pitons mountains and the Caribbean Sea. The spacious bedroom with walk in closet opens to a 420 sq ft open walled patio-living room area. The grand bathroom with Pitonview features a “ Couples” Shower with “His" and “Hers" rain shower heads. Casuarina has a private 160 sq ft pool surrounded by a pool deck of 135 sq ft
Beach House
The Beach House at Anse Chastenet is located on the north corner of Anse Chastanet Beach where you can sit and relax, looking out over the sparkling Caribbean Sea, watching sunsets year round from your elevated brick deck in the landscaped oceanfront garden. The interior is bright and airy, bathed in warm Caribbean sunlight shining through its French doors and windows.
The interior decor of the Beach House is a celebration of St Lucia's heritage which saw the island change hands between the French and the Britich 14 times. From the beach level next to the flower garden, you walk up a few hand-hewn stone steps, across your personal stone-column, gated bridge, onto the brick pathway, with its wind sculpture and antique sundial, leading to your spacious 450 square foot covered patio (1600 sq ft total). To rinse off sea salt and sand, simply dip under the outdoor shower adjacent to the brick pathway. The covered patio has a garden and roses on one side and an herb garden, flowers and a water feature on the other.
The expansive bathroom off the main living area features two large, rectangular white porcelain pedestal sinks with inset mirros and glass wall scones. A large, open custom rose glass tile shower area provides you with two rain showers, bench and an additional hand held shower. A cast-iron clawfoot slipper tub is set in front of a garden window with a view of the unique water fountain and pond, with water lilies and Koi fish.
In room amenities include air conditioning, fridge, tea/coffee/espresso makers, in-room electronic safes, hand made bathrobes, slippers, hair dryer, Molton Brown amenities, free WiFi, twice daily housekeeping service with complimentary bottled water
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Food & Drink
Treehouse Restaurant
Dine in two open air treehouses overlooking lush tropical foliage and the Caribbean Sea. Celebrating award winning Tropical World Cuisine, a blend of Caribbean with other tropical world cuisine experiences. Afternoon tea is served from 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. daily in both the Piton Bar and Beach Bar, and an afternoon snack menu is also available at that time. The two bars - Piti Piton Bar ar the Treehouse Restaramt and the Trou au Diable beach restaurant are open daily and offer a wide selection of tropical cocktails, beers, liquor including also fine malt whiskeys, eau-de-vies and after dinner drinks.
Trou au Diable Restaurant
Open-air beachfront restaurant/bar decorated with carved wood figures. Á la carte lunch daily, buffet dinners twice-weekly featuring themed cuisines such as Italian and creole. Dinner dress code: long pants or dress shorts, collared shirts for men.