Best Sustainable Hotels, Resorts and Eco Lodges in Saint Barthélemy
Where to stay in Saint Barthélemy
The 4 best places to stay in Saint Barthélemy are sustainable and all run on solar energy, on site desalination for their own drinking water and eco certification independently audited each year. From Anse des Cayes to Grand Cul de Sac to the heights of Colombier, these hotels are top rated for low-impact eco friendly comfort that keeps guests coming back to an island that guards its reefs, lagoons and endemic gardens as carefully as its sand.
How we decide the best place to stay in Saint Barthélemy
Each top rated stay in Saint Barthélemy is hand picked and checked for sustainability features.
We look at how the property actually sources its energy, like Hotel Manapany, where solar power runs all of the hot water and part of the electricity.
We analyse the water conservation, like Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa, which runs its own desalination station for autonomous drinking water alongside a wastewater treatment plant.
We verify where the food comes from, like Gyp Sea Saint-Barth, which favours organic and eco certified products across its catering and cultivates endemic plants of the Lesser Antilles in its gardens.
We also look at the property’s wider impact, like Hotel Christopher St. Barth, the only property on the island to hold Green Globe certification every year from 2021 through 2024, which funds the ARTIREEF coral project at Pointe Milou to regrow 38 species of coral.
The hotels, eco luxury resort and bungalow collection on this list of best places to stay in Saint Barthélemy have proven they are making a real effort to protect the island while taking care of its guests.
If the barefoot glamour of this little French outpost has you hooked, our guide to the best sustainable hotels across the Caribbean gathers the whole region in one place, or drift west to the eco stays of nearby Anguilla, slip across the channel to its sister isle Sint Maarten and carry on south down the chain to St Kitts and Nevis.
Top Picks, Where To Stay in Saint Barthélemy
- Hotel Christopher St. Barth: Green Globe certified, solar powered
- Hotel Manapany: Green Key certified and off grid
- Gyp Sea Saint-Barth: Female owned, farm to table
Hotel Christopher St.
Barth is a clifftop hotel on the western flank overlooking Anse de Lorient, and the only property on the island to hold Green Globe certification, awarded every year from 2021 through 2024. Solar panels cut its energy load and an on site treatment and desalination plant keeps it fully self sufficient for water, while the hotel funds the ARTIREEF coral project at Pointe Milou, using the Biorock process to regrow 38 species of coral on electrified metal reef structures.
Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa is a female founded boutique hotel on the lagoon at Grand Cul de Sac, built by Denise Dupré of Champagne Hospitality and certified Green Globe.
Its open air architecture leans on natural light and solar energy, with 100 per cent of the hot water solar heated, an on site desalination station for autonomous drinking water and a wastewater treatment plant, backed by a zero waste kitchen that turns every ingredient from bone to peel into stocks and butter.
Hotel Manapany is the island's first eco luxury resort, set alone on the sand at Anse des Cayes and the only hotel in St.
Barth to hold the Green Key eco label, earned in 2021. Solar panels run all of its hot water and part of its electricity, water is treated chemical free on site and recycled with no discharge, only electric cars are allowed on the property, and its four acre estate of citrus, mango, passionfruit, banana and coconut trees supplies the kitchen alongside other island growers.
Gyp Sea Saint-Barth is a collection of 22 bungalows on the heights of Colombier above the Bay of Flamands, run by the family owned Maisons et Hôtels Sibuet group and named for the founders' daughter Marie, who set her heart on the island.
It is Green Globe certified with annual independent audits, favours organic and eco certified products across cleaning and catering, and its gardens cultivate endemic plants of the Lesser Antilles to safeguard local biodiversity.
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