East Winds St. Lucia- All Inclusive

With only 30 rooms, and no disco or casino, bring your own partner. Yoga and Pilates offered on site, as well as cooking and tasting activities. Offsite excursions also offered. Water sports offered include Hobie Cat sailing (with instruction), snorkeling, paddle boarding and snorkeling. Small beach and pool with sufficient chaise lounges provided. No need to claim before breakfast. Good shade offered at the beach (trees and structures). Small surf. Excellent food with dinner served. Gluten free and vegan offerings. Excellent live music with dinner. Only a few danced. Roughly 80% of guests were Brits. Many were regulars. Good resort for “mature” guests. Resort setting is a garden. Abundant flowers and hummingbirds. My wife and I enjoyed each other in the beauty and quiet of this special place. Disappointed that we did not have an expansive beach for morning walks. Rocks and trees on one end of our beach and Windjammer Resort on the other end.

Just returned home after a wonderful 9 night stay. An amazing hotel with incredible staff made this a relaxing and memorable trip. Facilities and food as well as the beautiful beachfront setting make all the review comments very well deserved but for us it was the staff that made the holiday.. hardworking, attentive with a real personal touch. We stayed in room 12 which we loved. close to everything. only 2 minutes walk to the beach but from our veranda felt like we had our own little world to sit and look out at the beautiful gardens. My wife enjoyed the Yoga and Pilates classes and we both took part in the rum tasting and garden walks. Would recommend a trip to pigeon island and Rodney bay, as well as going further a field to The Pitons. The fact that the majority of the guests were multiple repeat visitors says it all. We would love to come back again one day

We have just stayed at East Winds for the very first time. It's was an exceptional holiday. The hotel and its staff and other guests made us feel so welcome. It was like the place gave us a massive hug. The food and drink was excellent and our suite on the beach front was beautiful. We couldn't find fault with any of it and can't wait to come back.

We spent a week here after spending a week in another hotel on the south of the island. There was a completely different vibe at East Winds - very peaceful and relaxing. As mentioned in other reviews, the clientele is mostly retired British couples. In our late 50s, we considered ourselves to be younger than many of the other guests. There were however a few much younger couples including one on honeymoon, who, despite the obvious age gap, appeared to be having a great time. The other young couple, we heard were influencers, invited there by management. The hotel has very recently refurbed and the furniture and soft furnishings are fresh and colourful. Sadly, the old furniture is currently being stored in the gym meaning the gym is out of action. We had the sense the hotel is currently at a cross roads, negotiating which route to take for the future. Do they continue to cater for the retired Brits, many of whom come back year after year, and do not want the hotel to change or do they look to attract a new future client base?. To stay successful inevitably means a business has to evolve and adapt to changing customer needs. We, in our late 50’s, are the potential returning customer base of the future, but, like many of our age, we value our fitness and seek opportunities to exercise regularly, but with the gym closed and no exercise classes my only outlet was getting up early to swim lengths in the pool before the other guests were up. Some days I couldn’t even do this until after breakfast as the pool was ‘closed’. I would love to introduce my children (in their mid- late 20’s ) to this lovely hotel, but I know they too would want a working gym and/ or fitness classes to be available. The hotel could maintain its calm tranquillity at the same time as providing more opportunities for those who wish to exercise and this might attract a new customer base Positives Fresh Fruit and yogurts at breakfast with Lovely cappuccinos and lattes made to order Afternoon tea and cakes / biscuits served from 4-5pm Great bbq with local lobster as it was in season and a fun cocktail competition despite horrendous weather that evening Nikita ran the twice weekly pilates class - she just took one look at everyone and accurately diagnosed any joint issues - The Second time around, we were the only couple there so she focussed on our own particular strengths and weaknesses which was great Damien, Devon and Joe- the water sports staff- seemed happy to take us out on a hobie , wind permitting, in the morning if we asked them. This was a highlight for us Lovely beach- not long enough for taking walks along but lots of space for the hotel guests with enough loungers and plenty of shade and a nice and welcome breeze from the sea. Pool area with serve yourself bar. Pool big enough for swimming lengths in if desired Negatives First night- our dinner order had obviously been forgotten and we didn’t get any food served despite couples seated after us being serve

The delay in writing this review must not reflect on how beautiful, wonderful and special this hotel is (I'm just not very organised!) We had two weeks here and each day was a joy. Every team member we met was so friendly, and were genuinely proud of where they worked and the experience everyone who stayed there got to enjoy. Particular highlights were the trip up the coast via the mud pools and waterfall, the return back singing along to Ricky T Soca and snorkelling in the clear waters off the hotel's beach, will live forever in our memories. We'd only stayed all inclusive once before this hotel, it's not our preferred choice of accommodation. East Winds was so far from any other all-inclusive and several other hotel options, we've had; a wonderful, spacious room, delicious food and great wine choices. Thank you. Helen and Andrew

We have visited a number of Caribbean islands in the past but never found the perfect spot for a variety of reasons: tired hotel, poor service, poor food, bad value and unfriendly staff to name a few. Then we found East Winds where we are currently halfway through the perfect holiday: joyful staff, well appointed and tastefully done cottage, lovely beach with plenty of covered sun beds on the beach and by the outdoor pool, bars a plenty, excellent food in the characterful restaurant and some event on offer every evening. Trips to explore the island by land or sea are available and the twelve acres of gardens are a delight. This small boutique hotel best serves older couples who come for winter sun and to chill. The young would miss the lack of nightlife and walkers would find the size of the property somewhat limiting. The majority of guests are English and many are repeat visitors. For us this is heaven and we expect to thoroughly enjoy the rest of our ten days and hope to return next year.