About this hotel
General information
The Cotton House is the only hotel on Mustique, a small private island in the Grenadines, and its days revolve around the white-sand curve of Endeavour Bay. Suites and cottages are scattered through some 13 acres of tropical gardens; every one has its own veranda or balcony, many add a plunge pool, and all around are mature trees, flowering beds and abundant wildlife.
The hotel is still the centre of the island's social life. The Veranda restaurant wraps around the central clubhouse, while the Great Room Bar and the Beach Café on the sand are where hotel guests, villa guests and islanders meet for cocktails, backgammon evenings and weekly dinners on the beach. The spa occupies a villa styled like one of the island's private houses, and Mustique's tennis club, riding stables, dive centre and hiking trails are all a few minutes away.
Location
The hotel sits just above the beach of Endeavour Bay, with The Residence on its own hilltop over L'Ansecoy Bay. The island lies about 160 km west of Barbados. The island's own airline, Air Adelphi, runs scheduled Twin Otter flights to Mustique airport from St Lucia (25 minutes), Barbados and Martinique (50 minutes each) and Argyle International Airport on St Vincent (10 minutes), and a representative meets guests in the arrivals hall with fast-track help through immigration and with luggage. Planes cannot land on Mustique after sunset, so international flights need to arrive by 15:30; a private boat from St Vincent or the neighbouring Grenadines can be arranged instead. On the island, guests get about in small open buggies known locally as mules.
Spa
The Cotton House Spa is set in its own villa, designed to feel like stepping into one of the island's private houses. It has nine treatment rooms, each with a private outdoor rain shower and two equipped for Thai massage, along with a bamboo-lined hair studio and a relaxation and beauty space, the Great Room, looking through the gardens to the Caribbean Sea. The Mustique signature treatments are the Himalayan Stone Body Ritual and the Lymphatic Flow Ritual with Movement Cupping, and Bamford body and skincare products are sold in the spa. Treatments can also be taken in the room, and bespoke programmes are put together for groups.
Sports & leisure
Sport at the hotel means the island's own facilities, all open to its guests:
- Mustique Tennis Club — five omni courts and one hard court, plus pickleball and two padel courts, all floodlit and free for island guests, with lessons, clinics and daily social play
- Watersports Centre on Endeavour Bay — scuba diving with PADI instructors (beginners' courses included), snorkelling, stand-up paddleboarding with guided sunset paddles, windsurfing and Hobie Cat sailing lessons; experienced sailors can charter schooners and catamarans
- Equestrian Centre — lessons for every level, rides along the island trails and swimming in the sea on horseback
- The island gym, with Hammer Strength and Life Fitness equipment, a yoga and Pilates studio and two shaded outdoor pavilions; Pilates, HIIT and several styles of yoga, plus personal training
- Sunrise yoga on the beach or privately in the room
- Hiking trails across the island, from the bird sanctuary walk to a four-hour circuit of the whole of Mustique
- Fishing for dorado, tuna, sailfish and marlin, and outings on Lady Anne, a 38-foot powerboat, to the neighbouring islands and the Tobago Cays; golf can be played on nearby Canouan
The island week has its rituals: a backgammon night in the Great Room, a weekly cocktail party there and the Cook on the Sand dinner on Endeavour Bay beach. Mustique also has four boutiques, among them The Boutique beside the hotel beach.
For children
Nannies and childminders are available on the island, and the Equestrian Centre's pony camps, the tennis club's Junior, Tots & Teens camps, and children's diving and sailing lessons keep older children busy. The island team also organises drive-in movie nights, treasure hunts, kite-flying competitions and night snorkelling for young guests.
Restaurants & bars
Cooking at the hotel is built on Vincentian produce and the local catch, and evenings tend to drift from the restaurant to the bar:
- Veranda — the evening restaurant wrapped around the central clubhouse: West Indian dishes, classic and contemporary, smoked and grilled over flame with house rubs and spiced marinades, served as sharing plates or full mains
- Beach Café — restaurant and bar at one end of Endeavour Bay: long lunches of grilled fish and seafood, salads, sushi, tacos and vegan dishes; wood-fired pizza on Friday evenings and the weekly Cook on the Sand, with pork slow-cooked in banana leaves buried in the sand over hot coals
- Great Room Bar — the hotel's meeting place, with a long cocktail list, a deep collection of Caribbean rums and cigars; light dishes and a children's menu are served through the day and into the evening
- Picnics — thatched gazebos on several of the island's beaches, where the hotel lays on lunch or dinner
Elsewhere on the island, about five minutes' drive away on Britannia Bay, Basil's Bar serves beach-bar lunches and dinners over the water, with live music and dancing at the Wednesday Jump Up, taco and tequila Thursdays and Sunday Sunset Sessions. Rates include breakfast, and full board is available.
Swimming
The hotel opens onto the white sand of Endeavour Bay, with calm, warm water and reefs for snorkelling right in the bay; a coral restoration project lies just off the watersports centre. Washed by both the Atlantic and the Caribbean, Mustique has nine very different beaches, from the sweeping crescent of Macaroni Beach on the east coast, its powder-white sand backed by palms, to the wild, windswept bays of the north. Many of the suites have their own plunge pool, and The Residence has a full-size pool.
Rooms
A small collection of cottages and suites in the gardens above the beach, from snug cottages to two-storey suites, plus a two-bedroom hilltop villa with its own butler.
Every room has a private veranda or balcony, an en-suite bathroom with shower and Wi-Fi.
Garden Cottage
The hotel's cosiest rooms, for two guests: a bedroom with a king-size or twin beds, a dressing room, an en-suite bathroom with walk-in shower and a sitting area. The cottage opens onto a veranda with loungers and a dining table.
Superior Garden Suite
A first-floor suite for two set among the tropical gardens, a short walk from the beach, with a generous double bedroom, separate living area, dressing room and en-suite shower room. A balcony completes it, and private dining can be arranged.
Deluxe Garden Suite
A suite for two tucked into the gardens, with a separate living room and a large en-suite bathroom with shower. Its terrace, screened by flowering plants, has a private plunge pool.
Duplex Suite
A two-storey suite for up to four in the heart of the grounds, with garden views and glimpses of both the Atlantic and the Caribbean. Upstairs is the main bedroom with a king-size bed, en-suite bathroom and a large balcony; downstairs, a sitting room, a second en-suite bedroom and a private plunge pool.
The Residence
The hotel's private two-bedroom villa for four on its own hilltop, looking across L'Ansecoy Bay, with a full-size pool, outdoor shower, indoor and outdoor living and dining areas and a pagoda. Both bedrooms are en suite, the main one with a large bath; a butler looks after guests throughout the stay, and all the hotel's facilities are open to them.
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