Belmond’s Caribbean properties reopen with new additions

Belmond’s Caribbean properties, La Samanna in St Martin and Cap Juluca in Anguilla, have reopened for the winter season with several new additions.

Cap Juluca now boasts a new, seafront Peruvian restaurant – the only one of its kind on the island – alongside two new island experiences: a fishing trip to Mandays Bay in the company of a local fisherman and a Volkswagen campervan tour of the island’s beaches with a gourmet picnic lunch.

The resort has also announced a programme of activities for the festive season, including wine-tasting, sunset sailing trips, salt scrub-making classes, an iron-man swim, a choir performance on Christmas Eve and a four-course New Year’s Gala dinner with live entertainment.

They join existing activities including windsurfing, waterskiing, snorkelling, diving and bird-watching with a local conservationist.

Meanwhile on St Martin, La Samanna has announced a new culinary series, La Cave Under The Stars, with international guest chefs and sommeliers visiting throughout the winter season.

The series will premiere on the weekend of November 27-29 with a two-day event organised in partnership with Maison Veuve Cliquot. The weekend will feature a five-course dinner with champagne pairings, a champagne picnic, Veuve Cliquot brunch bar and tasting classes led by an expert from the celebrated champagne house.

A second culinary event will follow on January 28-30, 2022, hosted by acclaimed New York chef David Waltuck, owner of downtown New York restaurant Chanterelle and four-time James Beard Award Winner.

Other additions at the property include a new holistic spa treatment, Energetic Re-Mastery – led by resident wellness expert Christine Caruso – and an exhibition by French photographer François Castelain from December 15, which features as part of the resort’s new artist in residence series, launched in July.