So here is the gimmick, and it’s a good one: The Belle Mont Farm is a “sustainable resort,” a sexy way of saying the operation is one part luxury boutique hotel and one part honest-to-goodness farm set on 400 acres of fertile, organic farmland and lush tropical forest on the island of St. Kitts. Think of a mountainside Eden with a turn-down service, known as Kittitian Hill.
If St. Kitts draws a few blanks, haul out your handy-dandy map of the Caribbean; the tiny island nation, formally known as St. Kitts & Nevis, is right where the Lesser Antilles begin to curve south toward South America. The capital is Basseterre, the weather is balmy, the language is English, and the dollar goes a looooong way. It’s also made a concerted effort to siphon away some of the tourist traffic sucked up by neighboring St. Barts. That is no easy feat, so when the Belle Mont goes out to impress, it is more than just lip service.
Collectively, the property comes off as look like a particularly ginger-bread-y mountainside village, so it goes without saying that Belle Mont is the very definition of an rustic escape from the world (top-shelf, to be sure, but rustic nonetheless) designed by Bill Bensley. The staff deliver fresh fruit crates daily, or you can just go out and pick something, and provided are all the modern comforts you need, if the plush bedding and rainwater showers are somehow found wanting. You can even transform your room into a personal cinema with film-stocked iPads, pull-down screens and projectors. Just in case airily vast panoramas of nature’s splendor don’t do it for you.
And those are just the rooms. Guests enjoy an authentic West Indies culinary experience with locally foraged ingredients enhanced by the imagination of our resident chefs. Belle Mont Farm prides itself on the expansive edible landscape that surrounds the resort and the unbelievably fresh, organic produce it offers. Each with a galaxy’s-worth of star ratings, The Kitchen, The Mill Bar, The Farm, Arthur’s, and Rolling Mango swaddle guests in gastro-goodness, and up to 90% of the restaurants’ provisions is sourced directly from the Belle Mont Farms property and immediately surrounding farms. If you are at all into farm-to-table, it is pretty much the policy of the Belle Mont kitchens.
Of course, there is the rest of St. Kitts. The island is famous for its eponymous music festival and black sand beaches, is more well known for what it isn’t: touristy. “St. Kitts: Get There Before The Tourists Do,” should be the motto. But with a hotel like the Belle Mont, who knows how long this state of affairs will last. Better book now…
For more info, go to bellemontfarm.com or contact Steele Luxury Travel to make a booking and receive special amenities with your reservation!