We stayed in a beachside villa-10C. The villa was spacious, large veranda and bathroom, ceiling fans, decor nice, ground level, mini-refrigerator, small in-room safe, good closet and drawer space, slatted front and partial side walls, nice flora out front but scenic view partially blocked by single tennis court. Parking on other side of tennis court. Didn't like: ceiling fans are inadequate for cooling especially on humid nights, slatted walls on ground level are poor for privacy, back of villa is a wall about 4 feet away-easily reflects most of the sound from the villa above. Lack of telephone irritating for making dinner reservations at off-resort restaurants or making connections with friends at another hotel. Veranda is nice but silent mosquitos are pesky at night.
Black sand beach with adequate "Cous Cous" huts. Drinks and food served. Service is a little slow, especially if your waiter forgets something like the fork for your salad. Black sand is hot-best get a first tier hut. No pool.
2 restaurants: Piton is 115 step steep climb from the beach, breakfast buffet, nice view, food good, service slow; Trou Au Diable is on the beach, nice view, no breakfast buffet, food good, service slow. Birds flying into the restaurants are quaint as long as you are there to protect your plate and don't mind bird droppings. Meal plan an okay value but locks you into the resort restaurants.
Dive shop on premises; equipment good; no nitrox; dive sites okay-nothing great. Visibility good and sites close by. Protected marine reef on south end of beach for snorkeling-about 80% dead. Better snorkeling on protected reef at Jalousie.
Wind surfing and sea kayaks available on the beach. Ocean very calm out front so good for beginners.
Anse Chastanet is a nice resort, staff friendly, but nothing great.

Can only endorse everyone else's views - it's a really great place to stay.

Scuba diving is particulary good if you are a leisure diver like us and prefer to avoid hardcore stuff. Dive sites are all minutes by roomy covered boat from beach and all around 60ft depth. Entry is by giant stride off back, although they let you do a backward roll off the side if you insist. Boat leaves so precisely at 10:30 and 13:45 that you can set your watch by it. Lunch is taken back at the resort between dives. Night dives are shore dives using the house reef, which are hassle-free. All very professional. Coral is in good shape and loads of small fish, with turtles seen as often as not.

Only disappointments were two very Brit points: the teapots could do with being one-cup size larger and they need to get lessons in proper Indian tandoori cooking for the beachside evening restaurant. If you've been spoiled by the Indian food at places like Mumtaz in Bradford or Madhu's in Southall England, give it a miss in favour of the excellent upstairs main restaurant.

We were upgraded to a close-by villa (--), which had a fantastic view and was like something out of an old James Bond film. If you want to take a grown-up family, it's certainly worth considering in conjuction with using the hotel's beach, leisure and catering facilities: it has two bedrooms - one double and one double+single bedded room.

We stayed in a deluxe hillside room in April 2006.

We took the helicopter transfer to the hotel's helipad and this was well worth the money with spectacular views - the building work on the new part of the hotel was clearly visable on the approach but once in the hotel you cannot see or hear it at all.

Our room had an ocean view - we had wanted a Piton view and the hotel did its best to find one - so do specify in advance the type of room you want.

The room we stayed in for the whole holiday was 12B - massive balcony, double four poster bed in bedroom up a short flight of steps. We were concerned about the lack of air con but there was a large fan built into the overhead beams of the bed which kept us cool plus the extra fans the hotel supply.
The mosquito netting over the whole bed plus the repellant coils supplied kept most biting insects at bay - my wife attracts mosquitoes but got most of her bites on the beach.

The main disadvantage to this room was the 130 plus steps from the reception (the last 20 or so going down to the room) - but it kept us fit and worked off the food and drink.

We had the all inclusive package which did cover everything including bottled water (and all alcoholic drinks up to US$5.5 per drink which covered most drinks). We also received a voucher for US$150 each for "excess food and beverages" (we have no idea why) - if you get one in your welcome pack use it, there are no hidden catches- we did and enjoyed the champagne.

We were very impressed at the friendliness of the staff - nothing seemed too much trouble.

Food on the whole was good - not exceptional - the only place requiring reservations in the evening was the beach (indian themed) restaurant.

The swimming and snorkeling was excellent. Minor problem with jellyfish when we were there - not from the ones you could see which were harmless but from smaller ones which delivered a sting like a wasp - I emphasize a minor problem unless you were stung like my wife.

We were concerned about the "back to nature" style of the hotel (we cancelled Jalousie because of bad reports) and it is built in the rain forest (great to wake in the night to hear the sounds of the wild life outside our room). However we thoroughly enjoyed the experience, loved the tree frogs (even the one that accompanied me to the bathroom and watched intently), hated the steps back to the room and would recommend the hotel to anyone.

Oh yes forgot to mention no TV, no telephone , no nightclub - no distractions.

My Husband Adam & I have just returned from our stay at Anse Chastanet.

Wow Where do I start. Anse Chastanet is a resort for Romantics, Couples & anyone looking to Relax and do First Class Scuba Diving and Snokelling.

The resort is built on a large Hill with standard and duluxe rooms on the hillside that have amazing views of the Pitons. Also duluxe Beachside Villas. We upgraded and stayed in the duluxe Beachside villas. I would reccomend staying Beachside if climbing lots of stairs is a problem as the hillside rooms did have a fair climb. Our Room 11D had a gorgeous comfy bed, seperate seating area outside under a huge verrindar, with a Hammock and Sunlounges, and views of the rainforest with mango and coconut trees. Well Stocked mini bar with Wines, Rums and fizzies for afternoon chilling in the sun. The bed had mosqetto nets around but i still got loads of bites. Buy a really good protection spray!! Bathroom was huge with 6 mirrors, double shower and designer products supplied daily. They only thing we missed was air-conditioning in the room as the air is quite humid. Not a major problem just needed a bit of getting used to.

There is 2-3 restaurants which were all very good. Lovely 4 course meals served overlooking the Piton Mountains and Sea. Excellent Wine Selection. Only Slight let down was choice of fresh fish, the reefs are protected so fishing is'nt allowed ( great for divers ) Did have a lovely Red snapper and Miri- Miri though.

Adam & I passed our Open Water dive during the stay and can't Praise the Dive Staff enough. The Reef starts on the beach so you can hire your gear in the Scuba st lucia shop right in the resort and dive daily. There are about 6-8 different reefs within a minute speed boat ride away which where amazing, we saw Turtles, and every coloured fish and coral you could hope for with a few eels for good measure. Jonathon our dive master was one of the nicest people you could hope to have teaching you, very patient, friendly and professional. All the dive staff where great though, really encouraging and knowledgeable. Snokelling is also right on the beach with lots to see.
Also saw Dolpins and Whales, couldnt believe it.

The St lucian People are excellent Hosts, with a very friendly manner, thats not over the top. Special Mention to Junior the beach attendant and Nigel the Waiter. All the Girls on reception are lovely and welcoming and everyone couldnt do enough for us, all us guests where walking around with huge grins on our faces. Sheer heaven.

This resort is not cheap to stay but worth every penny if you can afford it. They have nearly finished the Jade Mountain rooms which looked amazing, all with infinity pools. Thats where were be staying in 2007 !!

Go, Enjoy and have a creamy Cocktail for Us.