Best family friendly hotels in the Caribbean for 2025
There’s nothing quite so alluring in the chilly winter months than an envy-inducing tropical getaway, but finding the best family friendly hotels in the Caribbean is no mean feat. Offering a tropical holiday with beautiful butter-soft beaches, glistening seawater as warm as a bath and enveloped by luscious greenery, local culture and friendly people, it’s no wonder we keep returning to its shores, year after year. Every Caribbean island has its own unique offering and for families looking for a break that will keep the entire brood happy, finding a hotel that offers laid-back luxury with parent-pleasing facilities can feel like quite the task. We get it, when time is short and expectations skyscraper-high, you need to know that where you’re going is absolutely on the button. From Antigua to Barbados, the BVI to St Lucia, we’ve rounded up the very best family hotels in the Caribbean.
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How we choose the best family friendly hotels in the Caribbean
Every hotel on this list has been selected independently by our editors and written by a Condé Nast Traveller journalist who knows the destination and has stayed at that property. When choosing hotels, our editors consider both luxury properties and boutique and lesser-known boltholes that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination. We're always looking for beautiful design, a great location and warm service – as well as serious sustainability credentials. We update this list regularly as new hotels open and existing ones evolve. Find out more about our editorial standards and how we review hotels.
Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort, St Lucia
Occupying the finest spot in St. Lucia, nestled in the rainforest and under the menacing gaze of the mighty Pitons, just steps away from the milky-white sand, Sugar Beach is the place you and your gang will be dreaming about long after you’ve left its dreamy shores. The V Team kids’ club (ages 4-12) is a huge pull for families offering everything from boat trips to see bat caves and tree-planting to song-writing, archery and graffiti classes, leaving you with ample time to waft off to the treehouse spa for a muscle-melting massage. Go snorkelling in the turquoise waters with rainbow fish bustling around you like confetti, kayak or paddleboard, or simply zonk out in the hammock beside your beachfront bungalow, the choice is all yours. For big groups, splash out on the four-bed villas or do one better and take over the new swanky Spice of Life residence, with a whopping nine bedrooms, for a truly memorable multi-gen trip.
Address: Sugar Beach, Val Des Pitons Forbidden Beach La Baie de Silence, St Lucia
Price: Doubles from £578 per night, including breakfast
Curtain Bluff, Antigua
This classic Caribbean legend is an all-inclusive cocooned by 20 acres of lush green gardens and pristine beaches. After a recent refurb, it’s shiny and more glamorous than ever before, with staff that know how to nail both looking after you and leaving you alone in all the right measures. Sip frozen margaritas at the Bay Beach bar and enjoy the freshest, just-caught fish and barbecued specials at the sand-in-the-toes Sea Grape restaurant. You’ll want to book one of the enormous Grace & Morris Bay Suites that can be linked to a junior suite for a two-bedroom beachside haven, with a sweeping veranda and private plunge pool. Children are kept holiday happy at the Cee Bee Kids’ Camp (ages 3-10) where there’s a chock load of activities on offer from crafting to crab races, with a shaded playground and games room plus they can brush up on their drop volleys, top-spin lobs, and cross-court backhand winners at the complimentary kids' tennis clinic.
Address: Morris Bay St. Mary's Parish Old Road, Antigua & Barbuda
Price: From £580 per night for a double room, on an all-inclusive basis
The Sandpiper, Barbados
Considered one of Barbados' shining stars, family-run boutique hotel Sandpiper has a heap on offer to keep guests of all ages smiling. Lapped by those gin-clear Caribbean waters and wrapped in luscious tropical grounds, with a location that sits on the fringes of upmarket Holetown, meaning you can easily trundle off and explore, we can see why guests come back year after year. Days can be as busy or lazy as you desire – kayaking, paddle-boarding and sailing is included for all ages, while older kids’ will be racing off to the daily tennis clinic. Between May and August there’s a seasonal family programme with special swimming lessons and watersports classes and there’s a daily children’s room dinner available for smaller tots (under fives aren’t permitted in the restaurant after 7pm), with a very reasonably-priced babysitting service when you fancy making a break for it.
Address: The Sandpiper, Holetown, Saint James Barbados
Rates: From £855 per night for a double garden room
Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
This old-school beach-fronted beauty is a Grenadian gem. It’s effortlessly unpretentious and deliciously tranquil, perched in the quieter, southern end of Grand Anse beach, families love its ice-cream soft sandy beaches and shallow bath-warm waters, ideal for little ones to frolic around in. Nab one of the Seagrape Beach suites, a shell’s throw from the glistening beach with its own hammock ready to lull you into the best nap of your life or for more space, the huge 1,440 square ft. Royal Cinnamon and Saffron Beach Suites. Kids’ (aged 3-12) will adore the Nutmeg Pod club tucked away in the cool indoors. Elsewhere, there’s snorkelling, paddle-boarding and kayaking, with elegant all-inclusive dining (don’t miss the daily afternoon tea) and families conveniently have their own chilled dining area in the evening so you never feel too bad about dinner table meltdowns.
Address: Grand Anse Beach, The Lime, Grenada
Price: From £820 per night in a Oleander Garden View Suite, on an all-inclusive basis
J. Le MennCheval Blanc St-Barth, St Barth’s
As the only hotel in St Barth’s with Palace status (the category above five-star) you know you and your brood will be in safe hands at Cheval Blanc St-Barth. Yes, this might be an island synonymous for its fast and fizzy crowd, with luxury boutiques and sports cars zipping about but this place feels utterly discrete. Flanked by lush tropical gardens and the glorious talc-soft Baie des Flamand beach, it’s a true family-friendly Caribbean bolthole. Take over a spacious interconnecting suite with its own swimming pool so you can do laps in the sunshine while your minis snooze blissfully inside. The team will gladly provide all the kit (highchairs, cots, changing tables, bottle warmers) while chefs whip up child-pleasing dishes and purees for babies. Go on nature walks with the hotel’s gardener, have art lessons with a local painter or mini yoga lessons with the resident yogi, with babysitting and nanny services available too.
Address: Cheval Blanc St-Barth, Baie des Flamands, Saint-Barthélemy 97133, St Barthélemy
Price: From £2,698 per night, for a two-Bedroom bungalow
Stefano CanditoJumby Bay, Antigua
After you’ve zipped in by boat seven minutes from the mainland, landing on the powder puff sands of Jumby Bay feels like stepping into your own Bounty advert. It’s a techni-coloured dream, emerald-green lizards darting up white-washed walls, tortoises with red legs and blindingly white sands to cross, and turquoise waters teeming with plump orange starfish, yellow-tailed snappers, rays, and blue tang. Renowned in the Caribbean as being a total parent-pleaser, children aged 3-11 will be racing to the Jumby Explorers to spend their days watching turtles hatching, visiting the Jumby Farm to feed the hens, having relay races on the beach and learning how to play the steelpan, while you lay horizontal on a sunlounger, making the most of the bottomless champagne (it’s all-inclusive, in a very exclusive sense) and nipping off to the spa for a Tata Harper facial.
Address: Jumby Bay Island, Antigua, West Indies
Price: From £1,729 per night in a Junior Suite, on an all-inclusive basis
Ken Hayden PhotographyRosewood Little Dix Bay, British Virgin Islands
Completely rebuilt after being destroyed by hurricanes in 2017, Little Dix Bay has never looked slicker. It’s still as easy-breezy as ever with a relaxed dress code and unfailingly Caribbean charm that welcomes families of all ages with open arms. Parents will love the bells and whistles – the sweeping stilted tree house suites with balconies overlooking the twinkling ocean, the soul-soothing hilltop spa and one of the best rum collections in the Caribbean, not to mention the just-caught fish and farm-to-fork produce on the menus. Spend your days tracking the hawksbill turtles in the bay, picnicking on secluded islands or hiking in the hills, while little ones get stuck into local storytelling, Caribbean folk arts and crafts and treasure hunts in The Explorer’s Club (ages 3-16). It’s the kind of place where guests at checkout will turn to their butler and ask, “Same time next year?”
Address: Rosewood Little Dix Bay, PO Box 70, Virgin Gorda, BVI VG 1150
Price: From £797 per night in an Ocean View Cottage
