#11 in Top 20 St Barths for A Honeymoon · ★★★★
Hotel La Banane
Nine-bungalow boutique around two pools in a Lorient garden, one of the most intimate hotels on St Barths.
Nine-bungalow boutique around two pools in a Lorient garden, one of the most intimate hotels on St Barths.
"Nine-bungalow boutique around two pools in a Lorient garden, one of the most intimate hotels on St Barths."
Hotel La Banane is a nine-bungalow boutique tucked into a lush garden in Lorient, on the quieter north coast of St Barths. The honeymoon case is intimacy and design: nine freestanding bungalows, each individually styled after a 1950s artist or designer with indoor-outdoor showers and private terraces, set around two pools shaded by banana trees and palms. With so few rooms it feels more like a private villa than a hotel, and Lorient, one of the island's prettiest, calmest beaches, is a five-minute walk away. The honest trade-off is that La Banane is deliberately pared back: it is not beachfront, there is no full-service restaurant or spa, and dining is limited to a small bar and all-day menus served poolside or in your room. Book it for seclusion, style and a barefoot pace; if you want oceanfront rooms, multiple restaurants or resort facilities, this is not that hotel.
Ask for one of the larger garden bungalows with a private plunge or pool-side terrace set deepest into the planting, these give you the most privacy, which is the reason to come. The bungalows nearest the pool and bar are livelier and a touch less private; request a quieter corner if you are here to disappear.
Walk the five minutes to Lorient beach early, before the surfers and families arrive, for the quietest stretch of sand. Back at the hotel, the pools and garden are the day; arrange dinner reservations in Gustavia or St-Jean through reception, since the kitchen here is intentionally light.
Hotel La Banane sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in St Barths for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.2/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on a honeymoon-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same St Barths neighbourhood, see Lorient (north coast) and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
With dates settled, the booking window that works is about twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces, the ones that earn this rank, are typically the first to sell out.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.