The Best Hotels Near La Toubana Hotel & Spa, by the Record
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Forty-four bungalows, suites, and villas on a rocky cliffside above a private beach in one of the quieter corners of the Caribbean. La Toubana is a resort built around seclusion: the units are spacious and genuinely private, most with plunge pools or freestanding tubs, and the drop from clifftop panorama to sheltered water below takes only a few steps. A small spa, a poolside restaurant serving Creole food, and a beach bar round things out without turning the place into a scene.
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A colonial mansion with three cottages tucked into the Guadeloupe hillside, ten minutes above the beach with the Saintes islands sitting on the horizon. The infinity pool faces the water, a small terrace restaurant does French-Caribbean cooking, and the forest around you hides waterfalls, wildlife, and an active volcano, which is either reassuring or not. Quiet, small-scale, and about as far from an all-inclusive mega-resort as Guadeloupe gets.