Anse Chastanet, sprawled across 600 acres of St Lucia’s southwestern coastline, has spent October 2025 introducing a collection of guest experiences that feel less like marketing exercises and more like genuine attempts to deepen what a Caribbean holiday might actually mean.
The property sits between the island’s two Pitons, those dramatic volcanic peaks that have become St Lucia’s signature. With direct access to two beaches and the island’s protected marine reserve, the resort has long traded on its natural assets. What’s changed is how it’s choosing to share them. The latest additions span marine conservation, culinary innovation, and wellness programming.
The World Beneath the Waves
Just offshore, the water shifts from pale turquoise to a deep cobalt blue. Guests can now join complimentary Marine Life Talks several times a week, where marine biologists explain the island’s coral systems, turtle migration, and the curious arrival of the lionfish. The sessions are a relaxed and insightful way to see the sea with new understanding.
The resort’s Coral Nursery Snorkel has also evolved, incorporating microfragmentation, a restoration technique, a first for St Lucia, that helps coral regenerate more quickly. Guests are invited to visit the underwater nursery with a guide and witness the process firsthand.
Culinary Encounters Amongst the Trees
Set high in the rainforest canopy, The Tree House Restaurant feels open to the air and the scent of the sea. Here, Chef de Cuisine Elijah Jules hosts Tropical Gastronomy, an eight-seat dining experience that celebrates the island’s seasonal ingredients.
Each menu reflects what the island offers that week, line-caught fish, cacao and spices from the resort’s Emerald Estate Organic Farm, fruit gathered that morning from the hillside orchards. Jules’s cooking blends modern technique with local intuition, the flavours are bright and balanced, rooted in the island.
Wellness, Reimagined with Simplicity
Perched above the shoreline, Kai Belté Spa feels part of the landscape, with its open rooms filled with sea air and the sound of waves. The expanded menu now includes lymphatic drainage, shiatsu, and physio yoga, alongside gentle sound baths and recovery sessions. Each treatment is guided by touch and rhythm rather than routine, designed simply to restore ease.
Beyond the spa, the resort’s Flow Fit programme combines yoga and movement across twelve miles of private trails that rise from beach to forest ridge. Guests can walk, hike, or cycle directly from their rooms, moving through a landscape that feels restorative and grounding.
Eating Well, Simply
Across its restaurants, Anse Chastanet continues to lean into its garden-to-table philosophy. Vegetarian, vegan, and organic dishes now feature more prominently, with ingredients drawn fresh from Emerald Estate. The result is food that feels unhurried and honest, Caribbean in spirit, seasonal in execution.
Days unfold easily here: snorkelling in the marine reserve, kayaking along the bay, or diving with Scuba St Lucia. The resort’s approach to wellbeing is intuitive rather than prescriptive.
A Sense of Place
Anse Chastanet’s 49 rooms are individually designed, spread between hillside and beach. Hillside sanctuaries open to wide views of the Pitons and Caribbean Sea, their open-air architecture bringing the outside in. Beachside rooms sit within tropical gardens, steps from the water. Each space feels personal, shaped by natural materials and the island light.
Dining moves easily from barefoot lunches on the sand to dinner among the trees, but the focus remains the same: thoughtful cooking, guided by the island’s rhythm.
These recent additions don’t transform Anse Chastanet so much as deepen it. The coral nursery expands its conservation story, the culinary pop-up celebrates the island’s produce, and the wellness programme flows naturally from the landscape that surrounds it.