Best Boutique Honeymoon Hotels
What is a boutique hotel?
While many popular tourist destinations feature big luxury hotel chains, it can be preferable to opt for boutique hotel accommodation, particularly if you’re on your honeymoon. Boutique hotels are small, independent and usually – though by no means exclusively – nestled in a vibrant urban setting, and featuring their own unique style and ambience. Offering personalised service and outstanding wining and dining venues, a boutique hotel gives you an intimate and sometimes pleasantly quirky accommodation experience you won’t forget in a hurry. If all of this sounds like what you’d like for your upcoming honeymoon, read on for a selection of the best boutique hotels in the world and see which amazing boutique getaway catches your eye.
Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita, Mexico
Situated on the breath-taking Riviera Maya, this secluded luxury resort offers spectacular accommodation in the form of 90 sumptuous suites with amazing ocean views, private terraces and luxury bath products. A stay here is further enhanced by delectable gourmet dining venues, access to unlimited top shelf spirits and the chance to enjoy a sensual pampering in the hotel’s amazing full-service spa and Thalasso Centre. During your honeymoon you can enjoy complimentary greens fees at the Grand Coral Riviera Maya Course, try exhilarating water sports and excursions, take culinary classes and Spanish lessons and try an authentic Mayan Temazcal ceremony.
Kandolhu Island, Maldives
Nestled on a tiny island in the Maldives, Kandolhu is a small boutique resort with just 30 beautifully appointed villas, overlooking a shimmering expanse of ocean, fringed with sugar-white sand and waving palm fronds. Boasting 5 wining and dining venues, as well as offering intimate beach dining, this resort is guaranteed to put you in the mood for romance. Treat yourselves to pampering spa treatments, laze on the beach or go snorkelling and scuba diving. A variety of water sports and unforgettable excursions are also on offer here.
Sun Rocks Santorini, Greece
Santorini is known for being a remarkably romantic destination, with its golden sunshine, luxury hotels, sweeping vistas and delicious Greek cuisine. Sun Rocks Santorini amps up the romance factor with its exquisite white honeymoon suites boasting indoor Jacuzzis and its top-notch dining venues, such as Elea Fine Dining Restaurant. Bookings are essential as this eatery features just four tables, and offers incredible views, innovative cuisine and impressive wine list. When you’re not swimming, sunbathing or feasting on delicious dishes slip away to the A.Spa for a sensual couples’ spa experience.
Viceroy Bali
If you dream of spending a blissful honeymoon in Bali look no further than the Viceroy Bali boutique hotel. This award-winning honeymoon hotspot is nestled in the Valley of the Kings near the artists’ enclave of Ubud and offers lavish accommodation as well as being home to an award-winning fine dining restaurant and well-stocked bar overlooking the Petanu river gorge. There is also a sublime spa facility, boutique and air-conditioned gymnasium. A wide variety of unforgettable activities are available to you at this luxurious family-run resort, ranging from tours of historic Balinese palaces to a Rice Paddy Trek, horse riding and white water rafting.
Jade Mountain, St Lucia
Jade Mountain is a truly breath-taking boutique hotel situated on the verdant Caribbean isle of St Lucia. The perfect luxury honeymoon destination, this hotel has less than 30 suites, the majority of which are ‘Infinity Pool Sanctuaries’ with multi-level indoor and outdoor living areas and pristine private pools lined with iridescent tiles. These suites lack an exterior wall, with the sky and sea taking its place, affording you tremendous views and providing you with a heady combination of natural light and space. The accommodation in this Caribbean paradise is all-inclusive and the resort is home to a spa and well-equipped fitness centre, though you can also enjoy access to the facilities of the beach resort at the mountain’s foot, which belongs to the same owner.
Paradise Cove, Mauritius
Paradise Cove is an award-winning ‘adults only’ boutique hotel occupying a prime position on the northern coast of Mauritius. Nestled among 30,000sqm of lush tropical gardens overlooking a stunning cove, this hotel has 67 well-appointed rooms and suites and grants you access to 4 top-notch eateries as well as a bar, rum gallery and impressive wine cellar. During your stay indulge in pampering spa treatments, relax under the pergola on the Peninsula, take a dip in the infinity pool there or try some of the 20+ activities on offer at the hotel, which include tennis, sailing and kitesurfing. Take advantage of Paradise Cove’s ultra-romantic Honeymoon Packages which include a bottle of sparkling wine and a candlelight dinner.
