Habitation Caféière Samana Beauséjour is a small guesthouse on an old coffee estate, about 300 metres up on Gros Morne above Pointe-Noire, on the Caribbean coast of Basse-Terre. The estate appears on royal maps from 1763, and the main house is built of mahogany and courbaril with galleries stacked one above the other. The hosts live on the estate.
There are five places to stay. Two are bed and breakfast rooms with their own terrace, one of them with a two-person spa bath. The other three are self-catering ecolodges with a kitchen: a loft with a suspended terrace and a spa, a cottage and a two-bedroom villa, the last two each with a private saltwater pool. They sit in a tropical garden of one and a half hectares looking out over the Caribbean Sea, and the big rain tree planted in 1993 is where the house gets its name.
Breakfast comes largely from the garden: tropical fruit, homemade jams and vanilla yoghurt, eggs from the estate. In the evening there is a table d'hôtes, one menu for everyone at a shared table, cooked by the hosts and built on Creole dishes such as colombo and fricassée. The kitchen does not cook to individual diets.
The house takes adults only. It carries the Clef Verte and Esprit Parc National eco-labels, runs on solar power and collects its rainwater.
