Belmond Cap Juluca ranks #13 on our 2026 list of the best honeymoon hotels in the world. The case below explains why, the hotel itself, the standard it operates at, what it does specifically for couples on a milestone trip, and the alternatives we tested it against.
“Belmond's Anguilla resort: 113 rooms in white-domed Moorish villas on Maundays Bay, one of the best beaches in the Caribbean.”
The hotel itself
113 rooms, suites and villas spread along Maundays Bay, behind the white-domed, Moorish-influenced architecture that is Cap Juluca's signature. A 179-acre property and one of Anguilla's most recognisable.
Belmond Cap Juluca occupies a stretch of Maundays Bay on Anguilla's southwestern shore, with its 113 rooms, suites and villas set behind the white-domed, arched-colonnade architecture that defines the place. The original Cap Juluca opened in 1988 on that unusual Moroccan-Caribbean premise; Belmond took over in 2017 and reopened in November 2018 after a full restoration that updated every room while keeping the white domes. Belmond is now part of LVMH.
Why it works for a honeymoon
The geometry of an island honeymoon is different from the geometry of a city honeymoon. You are flying somewhere with one purpose. The hotel is, for ten days, your entire universe, the restaurant, the bed, the beach, the boat. The properties that succeed in this format do not borrow energy from a city outside; they generate their own.
Belmond, the LVMH-owned descendant of James Sherwood's Orient-Express Hotels, runs the most decorated portfolio of trains, riverboats, and grand-dame heritage hotels in luxury. The Cipriani, the Splendido, Caruso, Sirenuse, the Eastern & Oriental: every Belmond is a heritage building they restored rather than built. For honeymoons that means a kind of romance the new hotels can't manufacture: the rooms have history, the staff have tenure, and the bar at midnight has the right people in it.
The 113 accommodations run from garden-view rooms up through beachfront rooms with direct access to the sand, larger suites, and the private-pool villas. For a honeymoon, the beachfront categories and the pool villas are the ones worth the premium; the garden rooms cost less but trade away the front-row bay. Interiors are the contemporary post-2018 Belmond restoration, with Moroccan-Caribbean detailing kept throughout.
The setting does most of the work: a long beachfront on calm, clear water, an outdoor pool, a beachfront spa, and the white-domed architecture against the Caribbean Sea make this one of the region's most photogenic resorts. The flip side of that seclusion is that there is little to do off-property, so it rewards couples who want to settle in rather than island-hop.
Where it ranks against rivals
For a 2026 honeymoon at this level, the closest neighbours on our list are Cheval Blanc St-Tropez in France (#11), Canaves Oia Epitome in Santorini (#12), and Il Sereno Lago di Como in Italy (#14). Cap Juluca takes #13 on beach quality and the white-domed seclusion; for a Mediterranean honeymoon with more to do nearby, the runners-up may suit better. The city page below has the full local ranking.
Practical: getting in
Address: Maundays Bay, 2640, Anguilla. Honeymoon-suited categories book six to nine months ahead in shoulder season, twelve months ahead in peak. The full review at the hotel page has current rates, room categories worth paying up for, and the dining and spa programmes worth booking pre-arrival. Use our honeymoon occasion page for the broader context.