Belmond Cap Juluca ranks #45 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 flagship — 96 rooms in white-domed Moorish villas on Maundays Bay, possibly the best beach in the Caribbean.”
The hotel itself
One hundred and twenty-one rooms on Maundays Bay — the iconic Anguilla beach with the white-domed Moroccan-influenced architecture. Belmond since 2018, the most photographed Anguilla luxury resort.
"121 rooms on Maundays Bay with iconic white-domed Moroccan architecture. Belmond since 2018 — the most photographed Anguilla luxury resort."
Belmond Cap Juluca occupies a private peninsula on Maundays Bay — one of Anguilla's most photographed beaches, on the island's southwestern shore — with 121 rooms across the property's distinctive white-domed Moroccan-influenced architecture (the property's defining visual feature). The original Cap Juluca opened in 1988 with the unusual Moroccan-Caribbean architectural premise; Belmond (LVMH's heritage-hotel collection) acquired the property in 2017 and reopened it in November 2018 after a comprehensive multi-year restoration that updated every accommodation while preserving the iconic white-domed exterior architecture.
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 121 accommodations split between the entry-level Garden View Rooms (with garden access), Beachfront Rooms (with direct Maundays Bay beach access from the room patio), the Junior Suites and Suites including the Cap Juluca Suite, and the multi-bedroom Villas including the multi-bedroom Patio Suites. Every accommodation features the post-2018 Belmond-restoration contemporary luxury interiors with substantial Moroccan-Caribbean design elements throughout.
The grounds — the property's substantial Maundays Bay beachfront, the heated outdoor swimming pool, the comprehensive Spa, the fitness centre, the multi-restaurant complex, and the post-2018 renovated public spaces — make Belmond Cap Juluca comprehensively-equipped. The Maundays Bay setting is particularly photogenic — the bay's calm water, the white sand, the distinctive Moroccan-style architecture, and the broader Caribbean Sea backdrop produce one of the Caribbean's most-photographed beach hotel settings.
Where it ranks against rivals
For a 2026 honeymoon at this level, the most direct comparisons are Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui in Koh Samui (#44 on this list), Rosewood Miramar Beach in Santa Barbara (#46 on this list), Le Bristol Paris in Paris (#43 on this list). Belmond Cap Juluca earns the higher rank for one or two specific reasons we explain in the verdict above. The other properties are not lesser hotels — in some cases the answer for your particular trip is the runner-up, and the city-specific 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.