Maho Beach Resort & Casino
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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.)
A theater in the casino presents West Indian cultural/musical shows on certain nights. Accessible through an outside entrance and open on weekends and some weekdays, Q Club disco on the casino's mezzanine level features two bars, two dance floors, and an elevated VIP lounge.
The Maho Marketplace, which occupies this St. Maarten resort's street front, contains 40 shops, specialty stores, restaurants, and cafés, as well as an Internet center, a scuba-diving center, a beauty salon, a dance club, and a piano bar. Shops remain open until 11 PM.
Lined in wood and mirrors, a 418-square-meter (4,500-square-foot) health spa features five treatment rooms, each with a different decor, scent, and sound-and-light scheme. The spa offers massage, body wraps and scrubs, hydrotherapy, Vichy showers, facials, and nail care. It includes a complimentary unisex sauna and a complimentary mirror-lined fitness center containing cardio and weight machines as well as free weights.
Tuesday evenings feature a complimentary poolside rum punch party with live entertainment. Day and evening activities include crab races, karaoke, and pool aerobics. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, All Inclusive Plan guests receive complimentary bus transport to Orient Beach on the northeast coast of the island's French side for watersports, sunbathing, and swimming. If space is available, European Plan guests can pay for the bus service.
In addition to a 137-meter (150-yard), 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 and a wood gazebo jutting over the water offering views of the bay and the open sea.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- ATM/banking
- Audio-visual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business services
- Casino
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Conference room(s)
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning service
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Exhibit space
- Fitness equipment
- Full-service health spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Grocery
- Hair salon
- Internet access in public areas - complimentary
- Internet access - wireless
- Meeting rooms (small groups)
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Number of floors: 10
- Number of rooms: 600
- Parking (surcharge)
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant(s) in hotel
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box - front desk
- Sauna
- Security guard
- Shopping on site
- Supervised child care/activities
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Swim-up bar
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
The Sonesta Maho offers 537 guestrooms in a four-story buildings and a 10-story tower. Rooms have balconies or ground-floor terraces furnished with chairs and cocktail tables, contain two-chair dining sets and 25-inch televisions, and offer both dial-up and wireless Internet access (surcharges).
Decor includes tile floors, white walls and ceilings, light-wood furniture, and tropical-print fabrics. Bathrooms contain shower/tub combinations and bidets. 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:
- Room accommodations
- Unlimited food and house-brand drink
- All resort fitness and recreation facilities
- All resort activities and entertainments
- Snorkeling gear
- Transportation to Orient Beach on the island's French side three times weekly
- Supervised children's activities in winter season (age 4-12)
- Taxes and gratuities
Not included are room service meals and beverages; wine by the bottle; premium-brand drinks; massage; spa services; beauty services; child care; Internet access; laundry and dry cleaning; telephone and fax; outside tours and excursions.
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bidet
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable/satellite TV
- Child care (in room, surcharge)
- Climate control
- Clock radio
- Complimentary toiletries
- Cribs (infant beds) available
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Internet access - high speed
- Internet access - surcharge
- Iron/ironing board
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Rollaway beds
- Smoking rooms
- Television
- Voice mail
- Wake-up calls
- Window opens
Dining
Ocean Terrace - Air-conditioned restaurant with additional seating on ocean-view terrace. Breakfast, lunch, themed-dinner buffets nightly. A la carte menu offered certain nights, also.
The Palms Grill - Open-air spot serving breakfast, lunch, dinner daily. All-day menu of salads, burgers, sandwiches, pasta, pizza, ribs, steak, fish. Additional choices at dinner such as shrimp and chicken breast topped by Creole guavaberry sauce.
The Point - Air-conditioned, ocean-view, linen-service dinner restaurant with coralstone wall. Open selected nights. Starters such as sautéed snails, lobster risotto, foie gras terrine. Main courses like grilled swordfish with green-lip mussels in saffron sauce, sautéed ahi with papaya-mango chutney, roasted lamb rack with apricot-cognac sauce, grilled veal chop with forest mushrooms.
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.
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.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Swimming on site
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal watercraft nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Motor boating nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Running track/path on site
- Tennis on site
- Scooter/Moped Rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane sightseeing nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Fishing nearby
Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) may be available and should be requested at the time of booking; fees may apply.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.- Pets not allowed
- Check-in time is 3 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Maho Bay
Maho Beach, SI
Netherlands Antilles
Nearest major airport:
Philipsburg, St. Maarten (SXM-Princess Juliana)
