If you are in for a true colonial experience, you may dine in style at the historical Domaine de Bel Ombre, reservations required. As a contrast, Annabelle’s offers animation in its show kitchen, the only one where you can actually see your meal prepared and discuss its ingredients with the indeed very friendly and communicative chef Dominique Blais.

After a day filled with activities, you may just want to take a nightcap at the bar, listen to some piano music before floating back to your room in the warm tropical night, through the illuminated garden past the pool which looks like a scene from a fairytale, accompanied by the murmur of the water and the soft rustling of palm trees swaying in the wind. And as you fall asleep between silky sheets, you may surrender to the romance of these bygone times which the Telfair conjures up to perfection, even in your dreams.