Cap Maison

The Hotel

Cap Maison sits on the northern Cap Estate clifftop, the residential-and-resort cluster at St Lucia's northwest corner, three kilometres north of the Rodney Bay marina-and-restaurant cluster, on the Caribbean-Sea-frontage cliff that holds the island's northern golf-course-and-yacht-club community. Cap Maison opened in 2008 as the only luxury hotel on St Lucia's northern peninsula (the Pitons-area luxury cluster, Jade Mountain, Sugar Beach Viceroy, Ladera, sits 90 minutes' drive south on the Soufrière coast). The property is the deliberate alternative for travellers who prefer the northern peninsula's golf-and-yacht-and-restaurant infrastructure over the southern Pitons-area register.

The 50 keys are spread across the property's Spanish-Caribbean colonial-villa cluster. Categories run from entry-tier Garden View Suites (45 sqm) through Ocean View Suites (60 sqm) to multi-bedroom Villa Suites (90-180 sqm with private outdoor pool) and the named Roof Terrace Villa Suite (200 sqm, the property's milestone unit, top-floor with private rooftop terrace and the only direct Caribbean-cliff-and-Pigeon-Island sightline). The architectural register is contemporary-Spanish-Caribbean restraint applied throughout, restored Spanish-colonial architectural detail, hand-painted Spanish-tile flooring, custom-made Caribbean-hardwood furniture, and the deliberate decision to give the northern peninsula property a Spanish-Caribbean character that's structurally distinct from the Pitons-area cluster's volcanic-cliff vocabulary.

Operationally Cap Maison runs the small-luxury northern-peninsula register. The Cliff at Cap, the property's contemporary-Caribbean fine-dining restaurant on the cliff's edge above the Caribbean, runs the property's signature dinner programme; The Naked Fisherman is the casual lunch-and-Caribbean-rum-bar venue with direct cliff-staircase beach access (the property's signature feature is the cliff-staircase that runs from the main building down to the small private cove-and-snorkel beach 60 metres below). The Cap Maison Spa runs five treatment rooms; the property's adjacent partnership with the St Lucia Golf Club (the only championship golf course in St Lucia, 5 minutes' drive from the property) gives Cap Maison the only structural luxury-hotel golf access on the island.

What gives Cap Maison the considered St Lucia position, and the structural alternative to the southern Pitons-area cluster, is the northern-peninsula context combined with the Spanish-Caribbean architectural register. Cap Maison is the only luxury hotel on St Lucia's northern Cap Estate; the Spanish-Caribbean architectural register is structurally distinct from the southern volcanic-cliff cluster; and the Rodney Bay marina-and-restaurant infrastructure, the St Lucia Golf Club access, and the Pigeon Island National Landmark cultural day-trip programme give the property a level of off-property cultural-and-recreational infrastructure that the more-isolated Pitons-area properties don't deliver. For an anniversary trip that wants the northern-peninsula register, a honeymoon that prefers the Spanish-Caribbean architectural vocabulary over the volcanic-cliff alternatives, or a multi-night St Lucia stay that pairs Cap Maison with a Pitons-area second leg, Cap Maison is the most-considered northern-peninsula choice.

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