South Friar's Beach

Location is excellent. Walk to restaurants or eat at the restaurant on property while looking at the beautiful beach!

The rooms are very spacious and clean.

Very good experience overall, the positives outnumber the negatives to reach still a five star and because it was the low season and I believe we had a good deal, it was worth it. The positive: the place was fresh in July, we did not experience heat, It was not humid and it was very windy all the time. As it is set in the mountain. Views were great of the sea, and we could even see st Eustatius when it was clear. The room has very high ceilings, and the space is abundant. The bed was good and so the sheets and pillows. The pool just out of the room was nice to have, We saw monkeys around. The negatives, we felt kind of stuck. There is nowhere to walk other than the property which is down and up steep roads. The restaurant was closed, so we ordered room service from a restaurant which was just ok. The breakfast was good. The outdoor bathroom seems like a good idea and felt liberating. However, with flying curtains due to strong winds, landscapers walking around in the morning, the potential neighbor next door and toilette loving frogs, seems that the room could use shutters that you can open and close instead. It did not feel private at all. It wasn't bad, but not ideal thinking that if the hotel would have actually been busy, then we would have had very little privacy while in the bathroom. The other negative is that roofs are falling apart. An old wooden tile fell on the ground due to high winds, we saw those in the pool area. Overall, excellent and will probably be back.