Top 10 All-Inclusive Resorts in St. Lucia

·Only 30 cottage-style accommodations.

East Winds is thirty cottages in a garden on La Brelotte Bay, and it is the highest-scoring resort in our St. Lucia listings at 9.4. The scale is the product: one restaurant, one pool, gardens the guests write about, and a level of service and cooking that guests describe in terms usually reserved for much larger budgets. The bay is calm and you can snorkel from the sand, with seasonal seaweed the usual eastern Caribbean caveat.

·Exceptional private-suite setup

Serenity at Coconut Bay is a couples-only enclave of plunge-pool suites beside St. Lucia's international airport, for a short luxury trip. It is about 5 minutes from Hewanorra, on the flat southern tip of the island, and shares its beach and its grounds with the much larger Coconut Bay resort next door. The Pitons are a day trip up the coast; the suite, the pool on its terrace and the butler are what you are buying.

·Extraordinary Piton and Caribbean Sea views from open-wall sanctuaries.

One of the Caribbean's true originals, adults-only 'sanctuaries' with no fourth wall and a private infinity pool framing the Pitons. There are no TVs and barely a reason to leave the room, though the organic chocolate lab and included diving tempt you out. Architectural, romantic, unforgettable. Best December through May.

·Daily spa treatment included.

The BodyHoliday is a wellness all-inclusive on Cariblue Beach in St. Lucia, and its defining inclusion is a spa treatment every day. It has 155 rooms, three pools including a saltwater thalassotherapy pool, six restaurants, and a programme of fitness, yoga, tennis, golf and sailing, and it takes guests of twelve and over. The daily treatment runs 50 minutes and covers every day but the ones you arrive and leave on.

·Excellent food, wine and service reputation.

Cap Maison is a boutique clifftop resort in the north of St. Lucia, for couples who book a hotel for its restaurant and its wine list. It has 49 rooms above Smugglers Cove, two restaurants, two pools and a house reef to snorkel, and all-inclusive is an optional package called Cap It All rather than the rate. The Cliff at Cap is why most guests are here, and the hillside layout, steps and all, is what to weigh against it.

·Exceptional Piton views

Ladera sits on a ridge above Soufriere with the Pitons filling the view. Its 37 suites are open on the fourth side, three walls and no glass, with a private plunge pool in every one. That design is the whole reason to come and the thing to understand before booking, because open walls mean birds, insects and weather come in with the view. Guests who knew that adore it. It is adults-only.

·Excellent snorkeling beach

·Strong family and group fit

·Strong adults-only romantic positioning.

·Highly romantic low-rise beach setting.