The short version
- Two and three-bedroom residential suites adjoining The St. Regis Bermuda Resort, with full access to the resort's facilities.
- This is Bermuda's answer for a long stay, an extended family or two couples travelling together: space, a kitchen, and five-star service next door.
- One thing to know before booking: the Residences do not participate in Marriott Bonvoy, unlike the resort beside them.
- St. Catherine's Beach, two pools, 18-hole golf, a Sothys spa and St. George's a few minutes away on foot.
What the Residences are, and what they are not
The Residences at The St. Regis Bermuda are residential suites built alongside the resort, which opened in 2021, and set right next to it. They are booked by the night like a hotel room, and lived in like an apartment.
Two and three bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a full kitchen, laundry, several bathrooms, balconies or terraces. You have what you need to make breakfast, wash the swimsuits, put the children to bed in another room, and entertain in the evening without going out.
At the same time you keep everything the resort offers: both pools, the cabanas, the beach, the spa, the fitness centre and the restaurants. That combination is what makes this address valuable, and it is rare in Bermuda.
The Marriott Bonvoy point, settled before you book
Here is the concrete difference from the hotel next door: the Residences do not participate in Marriott Bonvoy. No points earned, no nights credited, no status benefits on the stay.
For a traveller who has been building points for years, that changes the decision, and it is better learned here than three weeks after getting home. For everyone else, it takes nothing away from the stay.
If the programme matters to you, your advisor will compare the real cost of both options with the points factored in, and the maths sometimes still favours the Residences, because the extra space replaces two hotel rooms.
What kind of trip this suits
Three profiles land particularly well here.
The extended family travelling across three generations: everyone has a bedroom, the living room becomes the gathering point, and nobody is on top of anybody.
Two couples sharing a stay: the format often works out below four separate hotel nights, and the shared living room makes all the difference in the evening.
The long stay, a week and up: with a kitchen you eat in when you feel like it and go out when you please. In Bermuda, where dining out runs expensive, that freedom counts.
St. Catherine's Beach and the pools
St. Catherine's Beach is a pale sand cove backed by Fort St. Catherine, right on the property. The water is usually calm and the bottom shelves gently, which suits children well.
Two infinity pools look out over the sea, one reserved for adults and one open to families, plus a whirlpool. Private cabanas are booked by the day with service at your lounger, and they go quickly in high season: ask your advisor to secure one on your file.
Understand that this is a sheltered bay beach rather than a wide pink sand stretch like those on the south shore. Horseshoe Bay is visited as an outing, at the other end of the island. Here you trade scale for calm and for water where children can wade.
Eating in, or at the resort
The full kitchen in the suite is the first advantage, and it reshapes the day: breakfast in pyjamas on the balcony, a light dinner after a day on the beach, snacks for the children at any hour.
For meals at the resort, three venues are open to you. Lina serves coastal Mediterranean cooking all day. BLT Steak is the evening table, a modern steakhouse whose reputation runs beyond the hotel. The St. Regis Bar pours the Gates Bay Mary, the house signature cocktail, and hosts the sunset champagne sabering ritual.
For groceries, the shops of St. George's are minutes away. Expect food prices in Bermuda to run higher than at home, since everything is imported. One large grocery run on arrival remains the simplest way to organise the week, and your butler can have it delivered.
Golf, spa and fitness
Five Forts Golf Club occupies the land behind the resort: 18 holes, roughly 4,056 metres, a short and hilly course along the coast under the gaze of several historic fortifications, which is where the name comes from. Carts are GPS-equipped.
The St. Regis Spa works with Sothys products and offers single and couples treatment rooms. The fitness centre is open 24 hours.
Getting to Bermuda from Canada
A non-stop flight links Montreal to Bermuda, but the window has tightened and departures number a handful a week, seasonally. Outside those departures you connect, usually through Toronto or the US east coast.
This is exactly the kind of file where an advisor saves time. Combinations shift from one season to the next, and for a family group the question gets more complicated still. Call 1 866 628-6241 before you lock in your dates.
L.F. Wade International Airport is about ten minutes away by road. For a family with luggage and tired children, that is a real advantage.
When to go, and what the sea is really like
Here is the point that surprises Canadians most: Bermuda is not a winter sun destination.
The archipelago lies in the North Atlantic, roughly a thousand kilometres off the coast of North Carolina. The Gulf Stream softens the climate without making it tropical. From November through March, highs sit around 20 to 22 degrees and the sea drops to 19 or 20. That is pleasant for walking, for golf and for sightseeing, far less so for spending the day in the water.
Swimming becomes comfortable from June through October, and the sea peaks near 27 degrees in August. Hurricane season runs June to November with the peak from August to October. Cancellation coverage earns its place during that stretch.
For a family trip built around swimming, aim for July and August. For walking, golf and sightseeing in the dry, April and May are the driest months of the year.
Getting around without a car
Visitors cannot rent cars in Bermuda. It is a long-standing government rule, adopted to protect the character of the island and its narrow roads, and it admits no exceptions. For a family group, that is the logistics point to plan first.
What remains: public buses, pink on the main routes and blue on local lines, ferries linking Hamilton, the Dockyard and St. George's, metered taxis at regulated rates, 50cc scooters that require no motorcycle licence, electric minicars restricted to drivers 25 and over, and bicycles. Multi-day passes cover buses and ferries together, and they pay off quickly for a family.
The island covers about 54 square kilometres and nothing is more than about ninety minutes away by bus. The resort concierge arranges taxis and transfers, which makes group outings far simpler.
What is there to do around the Residences?
Bermuda's east end is the oldest and most history-dense part of the archipelago, and you are set right in it.
St. George's, a World Heritage Site
Founded in 1612, St. George's is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the Americas and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Narrow lanes, lime-washed stone houses, St. Peter's Church, King's Square and the fortifications. The centre is minutes away, and it is also where the shops are.
Fort St. Catherine, at the door
The fort stands above the beach and is open to visit. Begun in 1614 and reworked into the 19th century, it holds a museum and cannon in position. Children love it, and it is the easiest end-of-day outing of the trip.
Tobacco Bay and nearby beaches
Tobacco Bay, a few minutes away, offers dramatic rock formations and clear water: it ranks among the best shore snorkelling on the island, and a beach bar rents the gear. Shelly Bay, further west, is shallow and calm and busy with Bermudian families on weekends.
What to know before you book
Three points deserve clearing up at the time of booking, and all three are settled by phone.
The loyalty programme first: no Marriott Bonvoy points on these units. That is question number one if you are earning.
The layout next: the number of bedrooms, the bed configuration and the bathrooms vary from one unit to another. For an extended family, have the exact layout confirmed on the file rather than relying on a photo.
Housekeeping last: cleaning and services in a residential suite follow a different cadence from a hotel room. Your advisor will have the inclusions confirmed for your dates, and you will leave with no surprises.
Booking with an advisor
A residential suite for six or eight people in Bermuda books better by phone than online. The layout, the dates, the flight combination for a group and the airport transfers all get settled in one conversation.
Our advisors know the Bermuda inventory and can compare this address with the others. Look also at The St. Regis Bermuda Resort, the neighbouring hotel, if you are travelling as a couple, or the Grotto Bay Beach Resort, which offers an optional all-inclusive plan for a family.
For the destination as a whole, see our page on travel to Bermuda and our selection of places to stay in Bermuda.
A Voyages AquaTerra advisor will take your call at 1 866 628-6241.
