Amorielli
The Stay Magazine Vol. 1 · No. 12 · December 2025Vol 1 · 12
We close the first volume of Amorielli at the far end of the year, on a small French island in the Caribbean where the season peaks exactly now. St. Barths is chic, expensive and unusually low-key about it — a place of villas rather than towers, French food rather than buffets, and an airport approach that has its own reputation.
Twelve issues in, thank you for reading this first year. The second begins next month, in the snow again — a different hemisphere's summer, and a magazine finding its stride.
— The Editors, Amorielli
The contents
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On the cover
Where to Stay in St. Barths: Beaches, Villas, and When to Go
A plainspoken guide to choosing where to stay on St. Barthelemy: a private villa or one of the island's few small hotels, which beach and quartier to base in, the small-plane arrival by way of Sint Maarten, and when to go.
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The Room
The villa island
There are a few excellent hotels — Eden Rock among them — but most visitors rent a villa. It suits the island's private, self-catering rhythm.
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The Arrival
Via St Maarten
There are no long-haul flights here. You connect through St Maarten onto a small plane and a famously short, steep runway, or come across by boat.
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The Table
French, at sea
This is France: the euro, the wine list and the cooking all come with it, set down on a Caribbean beach. The tables are the island's real luxury.
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