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In addition to a 137-meter (150-yard) beach, the resort's seafront extends another 91.5 meters (100 yards), with railing-lined terraces providing strolling space 7.6 meters (25 feet) above a rocky shoreline. A wooden gazebo jutting over the water offers views of the bay and the open sea. The hotel offers guests beach towels and umbrellas.
Across the street from the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort's reception area, a casino offers slot machines, video poker, craps, roulette, blackjack, and poker. This Sint Maarten casino is open around the clock for slot machines, and early afternoon to early morning for table games. (In addition, a room adjacent to the resort's lobby that's open from early afternoon to late night contains 52 slot machines.)
The Maho Marketplace, which occupies this St. Maarten resort's street front, contains 40 shops, specialty stores, restaurants, and cafés, as well as a business center with wired Internet access (surcharge), a scuba-diving center, and a piano bar. Shops remain open until 11 PM.
Lined in wood and mirrors, the 418-square-meter (4,500-square-foot) Serenity Spa features 5 treatment rooms, each with a different decor, scent, and sound-and-light scheme. The spa offers massage, body wraps and scrubs, beauty services, hydrotherapy, and Vichy showers. Couples treatment rooms are available. Advanced reservations required for spa treatments. It includes a complimentary mirror-lined fitness center containing cardio and weight machines as well as free weights.
The resort throws a weekly beach party with live entertainment for guests to unwind. Maho's entertainment team schedules activities including beach games, movies on the beach, and karaoke.
Room Amenities
Rooms
The Sonesta Maho offers 520 guestrooms in a four-story buildings and a 10-story tower. Rooms have furnished balconies or ground-floor terraces furnished with chairs and cocktail tables, contain two-chair dining sets and LCD televisions, and offer wireless Internet access (surcharges).
Decor includes tile floors, white walls and ceilings, light-wood furniture, and tropical-print fabrics. Beds have down comforters. Bathrooms contain bathrobes and shower/tub combinations. Rooms at this St. Maarten hotel are reserved under one of the following plans:
European Plan - Price includes room accommodations only. No meals are included.
All Inclusive Plan - Price includes the following:
Not included are room service meals and beverages; wine by the bottle; premium-brand drinks; massage; spa services; child care; Internet access; laundry and dry cleaning; telephone and fax; outside tours and excursions.
All-Inclusive Details
Guests can book rooms at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino for a rate that is either for the room only or for all-inclusive. All-inclusive rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply, for example, to premium food items or drinks; or to dining at specific restaurants). Guests who book all-inclusive rates do not have to pay extra for onsite activities such as snorkeling. Taxes and gratuities are included. Please note items that are not included; these require a surcharge.
Taxes and gratuities
Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
Entertainment
Accessibility Options
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests” section of “Trip Preferences” when you book your hotel.
Dining
Palms Grill Restaurant & Bar - Cozy ocean-view dining. A la carte menu of salads, sandwiches, pizza, and pasta as well as grilled favorites such as burgers, ribs, steak, and fish. Breakfast (seasonal), lunch, and dinner served daily.
Ocean Terrace Restaurant - Air-conditioned restaurant with additional seating on ocean-view terrace serving local and international dishes. Breakfast, lunch, themed-dinner buffets nightly. A la carte menu offered certain nights, also. Casual dress code. Open 7-11 AM, 12:30-3:30 PM, and 6:30-9:30 PM.
Napoli Pizzeria - Featuring a traditional brick oven baking original Neapolitan-style pizza. A la carte menu.
The Point Restaurant - Italian cuisine served in an air-conditioned dining room or open-air dining. Mouth watering dishes paired with amazing selections from the wine cellar (wine list at additional cost). A la carte menu. Casual elegant dress code.
Recreation
Washed by the Caribbean Sea, a 137-meter (150-yard) beach in front of the resort is part of a 366-meter (400-yard) crescent of sand fringing Maho Bay. (From time to time, airliners approaching the airport skim the bay and land on a runway near the resort's beach.) The resort also includes a sand sunning terrace with a bay view. The hotel has beach towels and umbrellas for guests' use.
A free-form pool with swim-up bar on one end and swim-through waterfall on the other arcs for 67 meters (220 feet) through the resort's central garden. Adjacent is a plunge pool bordered by coralrock walls into which a five-step rock waterfall spills. Above the resort's rocky seafront, a gently inclined path leads up through a tropical garden to a 14-meter-long (45-foot-long) irregularly shaped pool. A sundeck surrounding the pool offers panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea.
Use of snorkeling gear is complimentary for All Inclusive Plan guests. European Plan guests may rent the gear. Use of four lighted clay tennis courts is complimentary for all guests. Motorized watersports are not available on Maho Bay. However, they're widely available on the island, as are scuba diving, fishing, horseback riding, mountain biking, kitesurfing, and other activities. Mullet Bay Golf Course, an 18-hole layout, lies just 804 meters (a half-mile) from the resort.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
Spa
Lined in wood and mirrors, the 418-square-meter (4,500-square-foot) Serenity Spa at Sonesta Maho features 5 treatment rooms, each with a different decor, scent, and sound-and-light scheme.
The spa offers relaxing spa treatments that include massages (Swedish, Deep Tissue, Tension Relief, Reflexology, Hot Stone, Mom-To-Be, Hangover, Serenity), facial enhancers (Eyes Contour Treatment, Honeyed Lips), body treatments (Aromatherapy Body Wrap, Slimness Fondant Wrap, Sunburn Rescue, Aloe Treatment, Three Tea Ginger Scrub, Rosemary & Mint Scrub, Tropical Sunrise Scrub), hydrotherapy baths, and steam dome treatments, all designed to restore, rebalance and rejuvenate.
A complimentary mirror-lined fitness center containing cardio and weight machines as well as free weights is also available on site.
Couples treatment rooms are available. Advanced reservations are required for spa treatments. Serenity Spa is open 8 AM to 8 PM daily. The fitness center is open 7 AM to 10 PM.
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“Left another hotel mid stay and moved there!”
Nice and competant people working there. Nice,clean rooms. Bar/Grill outside restaurant could have had better service--island slow. Would stay again.
“Great place to stay”
Sonesta Maho Beach Resort (SMBR) is clean, comfortable, & friendly. On arrival at the airport, it's a few minutes away, including picking up (or returning) a rental car. Rent a car. You can bargain it down from over $300 a week to about 200 just by asking. Under- hotel parking is $5/day. Drive all over the island, esp to Marigot- visit Fort Louis & eat french food. The airport is a primary point of attraction to this area. If planes annoy you, go somewhere else. They skim right over the beach throughout the day, and many tourists will intentionally get "blasted" as the planes take off - esp Air France's biggest Airbus, every evening. Ask for the in-room safe key when checking in. Has a very nice pool, & quick access to a small beach. No coffee in lobby anymore; in-room coffee is poor. Breakfast at SMBR is all-or-nothing, $15. Many good dining choices & essential shopping are across the street. Sunset Beach Bar & Grill is a short walk. Some evening entertainment occurs around the complex, without detectable pattern. Beaches do not go on for miles - they're scattered around. Mullet Bay beach is easily walkable from SMBR.
“Evaluation”
La formule tout compris vaut vraiment le coup. Deux piscines, plusieurs restaurants et bars. Le bracelet de couleur facilite toutes les demandes. Belles chambres, la vue côté rue n'est vraiment pas belle mais supportable pour les courts séjours. Très bon hôtel.
“Super- Will return”
A great hotel in a beautiful location. Lots of choices for activities--poolS, beach, restaurants, casino, etc. Nexrt to airport.
“Outstanding experience”
Excellent service, cleanliness and really "want to help" employees.
“Great stay”
We recently stayed a week in the Maho Sonesta. It is a well maintained beautiful resort. We only ate at the beachfront restaurant one time as there are so many local places to eat. On this occasion the food and service was excellent. We did sample the bars at various times and found the service to be prompt. The beach and views are great and we enjoyed watching the planes take off and land at the nearby airport. The planes cease around 9 at night. Would stay at the Sonesta again in a heartbeat.
“Excellent Hotel, great location!”
You have to stay at this hotel.... The rooms are clean and big. But the best of all it's the location, you have many stores, restaurants, a casino, a disco, and its very near to the airport! I enjoy it very much, Hope you do too! PS. Couples: go to the ocean view pool at the back, its smaller but cleaner, more private and has a great view...
“Very impressed”
The hotel was very clean and the staff was friendly and extremely helpful.
“Would return”
Found the hotel very accomdating. Rooms clean and spacious. Felt lobby area could have been cooler - knowing front doors opening / closing a great deal. Bit warm almost to being uncomfortable.
“Fantastic Resort, Would like to go again.”
The Sonesta was definelty a great resort to stay at. The service was fantastic, the grounds were kept in great shape, the food was great, the people were friendly and very helpful. We went during the low season so the hotel was not packed. It was really nice feeling like we had the run of the resort. We were very satisifed with the service and food. The staff was great with everything. They were even great with helping us plan out our days and activities. There are quite a few activities and places to visit. One of our days there, we were able to rent an open jeep for the day in the resort lobby and travled around the whole island visiting other beaches and markets. IT was nice stepping off the resort and checking out other areas of the island. Also, if you do this trip, you really need to go with the All Inclusive package. It is defiently worth it, between the food and drinks. Also, the resort provided each of us with a $10 voucher for the Casino everynight. We went everynight to the Casino which was right across the street. One word of caution is if you go to any of the public beaches, like Mullet Beach, make sure you do not take any valuables with you and watch your bags. One guy distracted us while another took our bag but luckily another tourist saw the guy hide the bag and we were able to get it back with everything in it. Besides this one stupid event the entire trip was fantastic.
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The closest major airports to Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino are:
Philipsburg (SXM-Princess Juliana Intl.) - 0.9 km / 0.5 mi
Grand Case (SFG-L'Esperance) - 10.2 km / 6.3 mi
The preferred airport for Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino is Philipsburg (SXM-Princess Juliana Intl.).
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
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