Partially II of my 4 Seasons Anguilla journey posts, I’m sharing all of our Anguilla meals and drinks: what we ate, sipped, and our favorites. Plus suggestions for vacationers! 

Learn half I of our journey right here: 4 Seasons Anguilla

Anguilla Meals and Drinks

The meals on Anguilla may be very costly nevertheless it was very, superb!

The meals was additionally so contemporary and tropical! We didn’t have a foul meal. Listed here are our meal highlights!

Breakfast at SALT

Here’s a huge tip for these visiting: make certain breakfast is included in your keep!

Ours was by way of the Chase portal and we had been so glad as a result of the buffet, whereas superb, was $52 an individual. Our invoice was $135 every morning and included with our room. That might add up so quick in any other case. 

The breakfast was unimaginable although!!

We cherished the tropical juices, smoked salmon on a Johnny cake, chia pudding, and unfold of tropical fruit. I additionally received some eggs most mornings, and Thomas cherished the mini croissants. 

Tropical Juices

I’m not often a juice lady, however the mango-guava-papaya blends had been SO good!!

That they had an omelet station, waffles and pancakes, breakfast meats, conventional Anguillan meals (I received plantains one morning, they usually had lamb and Johnny truffles), and even a youngsters space with sprinkles and M&Ms for pancake toppers. 

The views at SALT had been simply unimaginable!! 

Lunch at Half Shell Bar

Our favourite spot for lunch was off the crushed path a little bit – Half Shell Bar on Barnes Bay Seashore. It’s a must to stroll by means of the villas to search out it, nevertheless it’s definitely worth the stroll. The bar is correct on the seashore and also you simply can’t beat the view! 

The meals was additionally superb, and we had fish tacos twice and shrimp skewers. 

Mahi Mahi Tacos

Shrimp Skewers 

Ceviche to Share and a Cut up Tropical Salad 

Thomas dwelling his greatest birthday life

In the direction of the top of our journey, we ended up simply skipping lunch! We ate a later breakfast as we adjusted to trip life and weren’t actually hungry in the course of the day. That was good as a result of it saved us $100+. 

The workers additionally introduced round little snacks right here and there – a smoothie shot, a little bit style of guacamole and three chips. 

And in the future my good friend Brent shared his quesadilla – that was a pleasant snack! 

I cherished the white wine sangria made with peach schnapps at Half Shell!

There was a second spot for lunch: Bamboo Bar & Grill. However we ended up not going as a result of we spent most of our time on the Sundown Pool or the Barnes Bay Seashore. 

Dinner at SALT

We dined at SALT a few instances and it was fairly the expertise!

While you stroll in you’re greeted with a welcome drink – tropical juice with a rum shooter and a lemongrass salted rim. Beautiful! 

We had a desk overlooking the ocean all three nights and the spotlights proven on sea turtles and big tarpon fish! We despatched some movies house to the boys. 

Wines 

Head’s up that the wines had been $18-29 a glasses, however the one time I splurged on the costly cabernet it was value it. 

Tableside Ceviche 

We had ceviche and the conch tostada, each had been scrumptious. 

Johnny Truffles “Bread Basket”

Our favourite half about SALT had been the Johnny truffles! They ready the salt desk facet crushed with basil and mint, and the truffles made with flour and cornmeal jogged my memory of a combination between a pancake and a biscuit.  

Pork Chop with plantain and a rum sauce 

Salt truffles and yucca fries 

Molten Chocolate Cake

We had this virtually each night time and devoured it!! 

Dessert Drink 

To finish essentially the most superb dinner, along with your verify they carry one other drink on the home – a mango smoothie spiked with one thing good! And little tiny mango gummy bears too. 

Dinner at Sundown Lounge

For a extra informal dinner, we dined at Sundown Lounge which serves Asian impressed dishes and sushi. You don’t want a reservation right here. 

The bar is open air and GORGEOUS they usually had reside music two of the weekend nights. 

The Passionate – Pyrat rum, cinnamon, lemon, egg white, orange bitters, passionfruit-amaretto foam. Anguilla’s fiftieth anniversary cocktail! 

We had lobster and tempura shrimp sushi that had been a few of the greatest we’ve ever had! 

Dinner at Blanchards

We had dinner one night time at Blanchards, which we took a taxi to from the resort (for about $25 with tip). Blanchards looks like a beloved native spot, they usually had an extended checklist of its historical past and charitable contributions to the group on the again of the menu.

Additionally they have an off-the-cuff taco restaurant on the property. 

Native Grouper + Jerk Hen

Cracked Coconut

The spotlight although was the Cracked Coconut – a Blanchard’s well-known dessert! It was like chocolate bark within the form of a coconut full of ice cream. Beloved it! We walked house underneath the total moon on the seashore. 

4 Seasons Meals Prices

Salads and apps had been $15-25, lunch entrees had been $30-40, and dinner entrees $40-70. There’s a 15% service cost and a 15% tax/environmental payment added to each verify, so meaning the associated fee is even increased when the invoice comes. Plus you possibly can add further gratuity for wonderful service, too. 

Cocktails and wine glasses had been additionally about $20 every, so plan your spending cash accordingly. 

Since we had the present card, we had been capable of not fear about our meals or drink prices. We spent $300-400 a day on drinks and eating, excluding breakfast, which was included in our room bundle (see under!)

In case you are an enormous eater or prefer to have cocktails all day lengthy, I might double that day by day value. 

A observe on water: Bottled water was supplied at each meal for $10. We didn’t understand this at first and paid for just a few bottles of nonetheless water. Then we switched to glowing water if we had been going to need to pay for it in any case. Lastly we realized we may simply ask for faucet water and that was fantastic to drink.

Different Native Eating places

Except for strolling on the seashore, I wouldn’t say that the resort was notably walkable. You needed to take a taxi to go away, though that was straightforward to get from the entrance foyer. You would additionally cost taxis to the room. 

Subsequent door to the 4 Seasons there was a brand new membership known as Savi. We virtually went there just a few instances, however we’re simply not late night time celebration folks so we by no means did. Additionally simply down the seashore was an off-the-cuff spot known as The Straw Hat. 

Our associates went to Sharky’s and stated it was good, and we had a reservation at Mango’s that we ended up altering since strolling down the seashore to go there was virtually not possible with the tide up and we didn’t wish to do a taxi. 

Issues To Do At The 4 Seasons Anguilla

Seashore Strolling

Except for basking in sunshine and sipping cocktails, we did do some exploring on foot. We walked to the sting of Meads Bay Seashore. I pretended I used to be on Survivor! 

Boat Excursions

There are a few boat excursions you possibly can take to the smaller close by islands. Our associates did one and stated it was simply OK. The water was too tough for them to really get off the boat that day. 

Sports activities

Thomas and I performed tennis in the future! This was our first time enjoying collectively. We had been glad the courts and tennis racquets had been complimentary, and we simply needed to pay $10 for some new balls. 

Health Middle

A couple of of the mornings we went to the health heart earlier than breakfast. It was very good with loads of gear. I principally walked on the treadmill at a steep incline and Thomas sweated it out on the stair grasp. 

Watching The World Cup

We received to look at within the open air!

The 4 Seasons Spa!

We received massages throughout our journey they usually had been nice! The spa was lovely and had its personal infinity pool and steam room to make use of whereas ready. 

Ideas For Visiting The 4 Seasons Anguilla

The Free Wifi Was Nice

The Wifi on the property was nice!! Wifi will be hit and miss and a few resorts make you sign up each time by means of a browser, however this wifi was like being at house after an preliminary sign up. The sign reached method down the seashores too.

We didn’t go for a global cellular phone plan, and I’m glad we didn’t as a result of it wasn’t obligatory. SXM airport additionally had free wifi. 

Seashore Baggage

You will get a free 4 Seasons tote on the entrance desk, so don’t pack a seashore bag! 

Sunscreen on the swimming pools

There isn’t a have to carry sunscreen or a water bottle – each are plentiful. That they had SPF 30 and 50 in addition to aloe on the swimming pools and seashores. 

Ideas

Deliver tons of money in low payments for suggestions. Greater than you suppose you’ll want! 

The Swimming pools Have been Freezing

In case you are a pool individual, you may not thoughts, however the swimming pools had been FREEZING! We needed to psych ourselves up for a plunge within the sundown pool, however as soon as we had been in it was value it.

The ocean was fairly cool too – not just like the Carolina seashores in the summertime. 

Attn: Beer Lovers

In case you are an enormous IPA drinker, you’ll be upset that the one beers that they had had been lagers. Presidente, Caribe, Crimson Stripe, Heineken. Thomas switched to Pina coladas and rum punch! 

For the espresso snobs (like us)

We had each a Nespresso maker and a Keurig machine in our room, which had been fantastic, however we like actually good huge cups of espresso!

For the espresso snobs (like us!) we advocate going to get to-go espresso on the health heart. It was scrumptious and significantly better than the Keurig. 

Was it child pleasant? 

There have been youngsters and a few infants on the resort, however I can’t say I might wish to carry mine. There wasn’t a ton of child actions like water slides and the seashore wasn’t very calm for teenagers, so I don’t suppose mine would have cherished it. (Though I received a number of texts from the seafood-loving Mazen that he actually wished he could possibly be consuming mahi with us!)

There have been these kid-sized lounge chairs that had been so cute! And there’s a youngsters membership for some adults-only time. 

Is The 4 Seasons Anguilla Price It?

1,000% sure! This was the nicest resort we have now ever stayed, and one which we might positively take into account returning to.

Whereas it usually would most likely be too costly for us, studying methods to use bank cards for journey has opened a complete new world of choices.

With a complete world to see, it’s laborious to think about going again to the identical spot, however boy wouldn’t it be enjoyable to take action! 

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