There’s no check-in desk (you walk into the restaurant), no one to ask for help with activity booking or direction mapping (which was half our fault for not making concrete plans ahead of time), and approximately 90 seconds of hot water per day. Le Shambala is really a great restaurant that seems like they had a few extra rooms and decided to convert into a hotel. We stayed at Le Shambala, not because I had heard anything about it but because it was literally one of the only places in the Caribbean that had availability that wasn’t exorbitantly expensive… And now I realize that was probably a red flag, ha.

That said, there were a couple things we’d do differently on our next trip that I thought might be helpful to share! It was also the perfect combination of being active, eating well, sleeping in, and time to do nothing but read and sip a margarita on the beach.

It was exactly the right amount of time to be out of the city and left us feeling totally refreshed and ready to take on the new year. Will and I had the best time in Saint Martin.

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