How to Spend 3 Days in St Barts: The Perfect Long Weekend
How to Spend 3 Days in St Barts: The Perfect Long Weekend
Three days in St. Barts is enough to see the island’s best beaches, eat at its finest restaurants, and get a day on the water. It’s enough to understand why people come back every year. Here is exactly how to spend it.
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Before You Arrive: What to Book
- Accommodation (villa or hotel)
- Flights to SXM + inter-island connection
- Rental car — immediately after confirming accommodation
- Day charter for Day 2
- Restaurant reservations for at least one evening
Morning: Fly into SXM, connect to SBH. Collect your rental car. Check into your villa or hotel.
Afternoon: Drive to Gouverneur Beach. Arrive around 2pm — still warm, starting to quiet down. Swim. Watch the light change on the hills.
Evening: Walk Shell Beach (below Gustavia) at sunset. Drinks at Le Select. Dinner at Do Brazil on Shell Beach — book ahead. Budget: €120–200/person.
All day: Your pre-booked catamaran charter departs from Gustavia harbor around 9am. Sail to Colombier Bay — snorkeling with sea turtles. Anchor in a second bay for lunch on deck. Coast back along the island’s Atlantic cliffs. Return to Gustavia for sunset.
Evening: Showers, change. Dinner at Bonito in Gustavia — creative cuisine, the island’s best cocktail bar. Book ahead.
Morning: Drive to Saline Beach — the most dramatic and wild beach on the island. Arrive early for near-solitude. Walk the salt pond loop behind the beach.
Afternoon: Drive to Gustavia. Shop the boutiques (duty-free). Lunch at a café or pick up supplies from Jojo Marché.
Late afternoon: Return to accommodation, pack. Check out and drive to airport for inter-island flight to SXM.
Three days is enough to love St. Barts. It’s also exactly enough to realise you need at least a week. Most people who visit for a long weekend book the 7-day trip before they leave. Browse villa availability for a full week now.
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