Le Saint Alexis Reunion

In the marvellous tropical Reunion Island, on the lee shores of the beautiful Boucan Canot Beach, the hotel Le Saint Alexis stands like an oasis of peace and serenity. A perfect blend of charm, originality, warm hospitality and refinement, all has been done for you to have a nice stay.

Built like a lake village with its 700 sq meter, 1000 cubic meter swimming pools on the sea front, this luxury charm hotel, suffused with sun and water, has already seduced so many demanding guests, in search of the values of traditional hotel hospitality.

You’ll be under the spell of this recommanded address where an audacious architecture, which combines arches with columns, many individual and collective terraces, footbridges, a tropical garden, makes it possible to enjoy an outstanding location and a spectacular panorama on the Indian Ocean.

A BIT OF HISTORY
Influenced by a nautical theme, Le Saint Alexis took the name of the famous vessel that lead the French navigators, on their way on the spice road, to this small Indian Ocean island successively called Dina Morgabin by the Arabs, Santa Apollonia and Mascarenhas by the Portugese, England’s Forest by the English, and at last, Bourbon, Réunion, Bonaparte, Bourbon again and definitively Réunion since 1848 (*Source D.Vaxelaire)

ROOMS & SUITES
Spacious and elegant, all the Saint Alexis rooms are an actual haven of peace. Each one is provided with a balcony overlooking the swimmimg pool or the garden, or on the ground floor, with a terrace whose lower level is submerged in the two swimming pools (that’s why the ground floor is called “pool floor” in the hotel).

All the rooms are equally equipped: air conditioning, ceiling fan, LCD television with satellite channels (parabole Reunion), minibar, safe, a whirlpool bathtub, two washbasins, a hair-dryer, separate toilets, free internet access.

Three of them, located at the ground floor, first and second floors, in front of one of the two lifts of the hotel, are fitted with the equipment required for disabled people.

SUITE
The 5 luxury suites, ranging from 80 to 92 sq. meters, have been created like real apartments, including entrance area, separated bedroom with queen-size bed or twin beds, drawing room with sofa bed, balcony or poolside terrace, a roomy bathroom provided with a whirlpool bathtub and an independent mult-head shower.

JUNIOR SUITE
The elegant, spacious 15 junior suites, ranging from 53 to 55 sq.meters, with queen-size bed or twin beds, include a drawing-room with a sofa bed, a roomy bathroom with a whirlpool bathtub and separated shower, terrace along the pool or balcony.

DELUXE ROOMS
The 17 deluxe rooms, with an average surface of 42 sq.meters, have a queen-size bed (180×200) that can be turned into twin beds. Facing the bed, a living area with sofa bed (120 x 200 when opened) and writing desk, and an en-suite terrace or balcony divided into an inside and an outside area.

All deluxe, spacious bathrooms are equipped with a double whirlpool bathtub, two washbasins, hair-dryer, separate toilets. Two deluxe rooms are in fact genuine small suites, as the bedroom is separated from the living area by a small corridor and toilets. The unique deluxe room in the 3rd floor is built like an original duplex apartment, well suited to the more romantic ones.

STANDARD & SUPERIOR ROOMS
The 10 standard rooms – 8 of them are nice attic rooms – and the 11 superior rooms, whose surfaces range from 25 to 35 sq. meters, are furnished with a writing desk, a 160×200 (cm) bed; free baby-bed on request. There is a double whirlpool bathtub in most of the bathrooms, a single one in the others.

DINING
Convivial rendezvous time in the early morning, breakfast takes place on the second floor outside deck, as well as inside the panoramic dining room. You’ll help yourself from 6.30 until 10.30 am at a buffet offering a wide choice of local, international and bio products. You can also have your breakfast served in your room, on your private terrace or balcony from 6.30 to 11.00 am.

Enjoy your meal on the first or second floor or on one of the six sheltered balconies over the ocean. Almost all year long, lunch and dinner are also served in the garden floor bordering the beach, on the shade of coconut trees and “sunbrellas”, a restful spot to have a meal in a cheerful atmosphere. Lunch is served from noon to 1.30 p.m, Dinner from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m.

At lunch, the restaurant offers dishes prepared with finesse and simplicity. At dinner, we highly recommend our tasting menu “L’Etoile Filante”, a culinary delight, to gourmets. Always in search for new inspiration our chef combines easily classical and exotic cooking.

So our talented cooking team make it a point of honour to offer high quality dishes to you, based on the best foodstuff they can find in Reunion, France and many places in the world. The menus change weekly. For our young guests, special “kids-menu” or “à la carte” dishes are proposed.

THE BAR
Convivial and relaxing area, the bar sets on the ground floor and is wide-open onto the terrace and the garden, right along the beach. A” la carte” choice of snacks is at the clients’ disposal from 1.00 to 5.00 pm, that includes salad, panini, all sorts of sandwiches!

You’ll be served there a large choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, various rums and scotch, Irish, American and even Japanese whiskeys, champagne, to be tasted with moderation, of course!

SPA & WELLNESS
Set in the garden just off the ocean, The Saint Alexis’ Spa offers beauty treatments and massages based on SOTHYS’ products.

This 500 sq. meter spa combines the finest atmosphere of a traditional Reunionese home with the most modern spa equipment, so that you may enjoy, at the same time, the quitness of the place, the magic game between water and light, the benefits of body cares.

“Dream of massage under rain-shower”, “Delicious exfoliation with ginger and citrus fruits balm”, “Mineral enchantment”, “Orient essences ceremony” and so many other overseas exotic treatments will invite you to enjoy a delicious moment in this universe of sun, flavours and water.

Our beauty specialists will make a pleasure to welcome you as soon as you arrive, to set out their wide range of cares and to orientate you for the most effective choice.

The spa invites you to relaxation, by enjoying a massage while rocked by the murmuring of the ocean…No doubt you’ll yield…to the tonic flows of the outdoor “sensorial” heated pool, with great relaxing properties. Various aquatic massage devices will make your body ready to get a massage or a beauty treatment,

…to a “scrub under multiple shower-heads”, for recommended traditional body scrubs, as well as body massages, facemasks…to traditional steam bath in a Turkish baths room enlightened by multiple coloured spots in its ceiling,

…to an “Experience” or “Adventure” shower, which uses the most recent innovations in the spa equipment, where you can get into shape by using various programs offering senations of mildness and tonic effect, thanks to a device combining temperature and jets of water, in a surprising atmosphere made of varations in coulours and fragrances…

SEMINAR & MEETINGS
The Saint Alexis is the perfect place for you to organize your business meetings, conferences, seminars…The second floor has been conceived in this purpose on a 700 sq. meters area, including three conference rooms, a panoramic dining room, a large wooden “deck” overlooking the ocean and leading to all the reception rooms.

Two conference rooms can be equipped according to your demands and can accommodate up to 80 persons. Both of them open onto the “deck” where coffee breaks are generally served.

REUNION, AN ISLAND, A WORLD
Located in the South West of the Indian Ocean, Reunion Island is an actual paradise with its active volcano, mountains, waterfalls and forests. As a consequence of its history, the Island gathers a highly intermixed, sympathetic and welcoming population. One can nothing but being amazed by:

• the majestic, active volcano Piton de la Fournaise (2632m)
• the three inland imposing circus: Mafate, Cilaos and Salazie
• the impressive, beautiful beaches on the West coast: Boucan-Canot, Saint-Gilles, l’Ermitage, La Saline, Saint Leu
• forests, waterfalls and lush vegetation on the heights of the eastern shores,
• the delicious, authentic reunion culinary specialities, such as samosas, bouchons, curries, rougails, or really exclusive ones such as palmist salads or “cari bichiques” according to season
• Chameleons, tropical lizards “margouillats”, dolphins, sea turtles or the fascinating ballet of whales and whale calves very close to the coast from June to October
• The heated arguments recently ensued about the higher number of sharks approaching the island, shouldn’t be an obstacle to anyone who obeys strictly the local authorities orders about surfing or swimming in the sea.
• Moreover one can find here too a huge variety of plants and flowers, and, of course, tropical fruit such as mango, lychee, guava, passion fruit …. that can be found at the coloured Saint-Paul’s market!

Website: www.hotelsaintalexis.com

Rooms: 60

Price: from 200 EUR per night