Sunfinder Vacations

Styled like a small Caribbean village, the resort offers spacious, tropical-garden grounds, and attracts couples and families seeking relaxing, tranquil holidays with ready access to Orient Beach.

Popular with couples, the resort combines Gallic charm and relaxed Caribbean hospitality. The resort's 55 acres fall gently from a 30.5-m (100-ft) limestone cliff to sea level, with a paved path winding through tropical gardens. (Complimentary shuttle service is available throughout.) The resort's staff speaks English, and U.S. currency is accepted.

This timeshare resort also offers guestrooms and suites for hotel guests. Families and couples come here for the seclusion, the beach, and the sweeping ocean views.

Situated between a steep green hill and the northwest coast's Grand Case Bay, the bougainvillea-draped condo resort, which rents vacation units in owners' absences, appeals to adults seeking walking-distance access to Grand Case's many restaurants and art shops, approximately 300m (328 yds) from the resort.

The resort attracts couples and families seeking easy access to Orient Beach's European ambience of lounge chairs and colored umbrellas arranged in geometric patterns, as well as to watersports and to an adjoining open-air shopping/dining center.

Popular with couples and small families, the resort draws guests who wish to join the sunbathers, strollers, and watersports enthusiasts on Orient Beach, which, with its beachfront restaurants and geometric patterns of lounge chairs and colored umbrellas, offers a European-beach ambience.

Families and couples choose this south-coast resort for its proximity to Philipsburg's duty-free shopping, its casual ambience (exemplified by an open-air reception counter), and to enjoy the sun and sea.

Remodeled in 2004-05, this south-facing resort lies at the base of Mt. Willem and attracts guests seeking walking-distance access to Philipsburg, casino action, and panoramic views.

A four-story, open-air atrium lobby with water features, tropical greenery, rattan chairs, and banquettes of blue tile exemplifies the hotel's casual and breezy French West Indian style. Like the entire seafront side of the hotel, the lobby provides views of the Caribbean Sea and the neighboring island of Anguilla.

Laced by concrete paths, fieldstone steps, and flowering bushes, the resort occupies 70 acres atop and down the sides of a steep hill called Mont Vernon. Families and couples come for the sea breezes, the panoramic ocean views, the separation from Orient Beach's crowded areas, and the ambience of wide-open space and endless light.

Although the resort includes a children's playground on the beach, the resort primarily attracts adults of all ages—especially young adults from Europe and the U.S. They're drawn by lively atmosphere and the proximity to shopping, dining, and nightlife in the French capital of Marigot.