6 Best Hotels in Anegada, British Virgin Islands

This is a laid-back beach club setting with well-equipped hotel rooms and luxury "palapa retreats" overlooking the dunes. Enjoy beach volleyball, badminton, and an on-site swimming pool, along with poolside and beach bars. For water-sports lovers, this is a great locale for kiteboarding, snorkeling, swimming, and kayaking. Rooms are spacious, and luxury tents offer a memorable glamping experience.

Head here if you want to bunk in comfortable lodging near Anegada's most popular anchorage; this venerable hotel, a destination for more than 40 years, still feels like the nerve center for the island. In addition to offering accommodation and three meals a day, Anegada Reef rents cars and arranges fishing trips and tours. The attractively renovated rooms are simple but fresh, with brightly colored fabrics and semiprivate porches with ocean or garden views. Four deluxe rooms have king beds, and the inviting Sunset Bar is set between the rooms and the beach.

Brightly painted, furnished one- or two-bedroom villas with full kitchens are within steps of Cow Wreck Beach and the Tipsy beach bar and restaurant, which has equally vivid sun shelters and picnic tables.

Location is this property's finest attribute: the four circular villas are just steps from beautiful Loblolly Bay. Painted in the Big Bamboo's signature green and blue, these one- and two-bedroom units offer full kitchens, spacious bedrooms, and the opportunity to wake up to one of the prettiest views on the island.

Picture yourself nearly alone in a tropical paradise; if that's your dream, then this may be your place. These four cottages sit less than 20 feet from the water's edge, where you can swim, sun, snorkel, and stroll down miles of gorgeous white-sand beaches, or catch up on all that reading you've been wanting to do. Three of these cheerful peach-colored cottages have one bedroom; the fourth has two generously sized bedrooms. Furnishings are homey, with comfortable bamboo couches and walk-in closets. There are ceiling fans to supplement the trade winds, along with air-conditioning in the bedrooms, fully equipped kitchens, living rooms, cable TV, and open-air front porches with outstanding views of the sea. Right by the water is a communal outdoor kitchen with a large grill and plenty of seating. Owners Lucia and Rudolph Francis take pride in their property and go out of their way to make guests feel welcome. A rental car is included in the price of the cottage.

Basic waterfront rooms with simple furnishings and lovely views of the ocean are the hallmark of this family-owned guesthouse. Each of the nine attractively renovated rooms has air-conditioning, but if you open the windows you can fall asleep to the sound of waves lapping at the shoreline. If you're happy with a simple place to rest your head after swimming or kayaking in crystal clear waters, sunning at the round-the-island beach, enjoying fresh-from-the-sea dinners at the hotel's restaurant, and watching the sun go down from a seat at a tiki bar, this is the place. A private cottage with a kitchen that sleeps up to four can be had for about $100 more per night. If you must move out of the hammock, the hotel will organize an island tour or a fishing expedition.