*** Upon special request, at the sole discretion of the resort management team.

On Grande Terre, along one of the Caribbean’s most beautiful golden sand beaches, the Club Med Resort has a total of 299 rooms, distributed as follows: “”Les Saintes”” is a group of bungalows some distance from the centre of the Resort, near the beach. The Hotel Marie Galante has 3 floors, with no lift. the Hotel Basse Terre has 6 floors with lift, and the Grande Terre – 3 floors, no lift – is near the theatre, restaurant and pool. The Hotel Désirade is in a peaceful location, on 3 floors, near the Hotel Basse Terre.

Club

Club Rooms are located on the ground, first and second floors of the Grande Terre building, with a view of the gardens, or in the in the Basse-Terre or Désirade buildings.

Your choice of room in the Club category: Club Room – Sea View, Marie Galante, Club Room – Sea View, Marie Galante, Interconnecting, Club Room Club Room – Interconnecting, Room – Les Saintes, Club Room – Suitable for People with Reduced Mobility

The facilities

• Air-conditioning
• Hair dryer
• Ironing kit
• Mini-fridge
• Security safe(s)
• Shower
• Telephone
• Television(s)
• European electrical sockets / 220 Volts

Suite

The privilege of space and comfort for Suites with an exceptional location and great sea view. The Marie Galante and Grande Terre Sea View Suites have a furnished balcony or terrace.

Your choice of room in the Suite category: Suite – Grande Terre, Sea View; Suite – Marie Galante, Sea View

The facilities

• Air-conditioning
• Expresso Machine
• Hair dryer
• Ironing kit
• Minibar
• Radio alarm clock / CD player
• Security safe(s)
• Shower
• Telephone
• Television(s)
• European electrical sockets / 220 Volts

Services

• Bottle of water
• Bathrobe
• Slippers
• Guest amenities
• Transfer from airport to Resort by mini-bus or private car for G.M®s with a Transfer package
• Lunch at no extra cost for G.M®s who arrive before 3 pm
• Your own dedicated contact person throughout your stay
• Your luggage delivered to and collected from your Suite
• Dry cleaning service (at extra cost), your clothes picked up from and returned to your Suite
• Turndown service
• Housekeeping scheduled at the time of your choice
• Inclusive of room service for continental breakfast

Restaurants

Delicious, creative cuisine and impeccable table art. Our chefs really let their creative juices flow, to ensure you have a fabulous and entertaining meal.

L’Hibiscus

600 indoor seats and 488 outdoor seats

The main buffet restaurant of the resort offers a relaxing setting for casual yet elegant dining. The interior is contemporary and chic, and the open air terrace creates a beautiful setting where you can gaze out to the idyllic Caribbean coast while shaded from the generous sun. Fresh and tempting local produce and international dishes are available for all mealtimes. Parents can use the baby corner to prepare food for their little ones. Non-smoking restaurant.

List of equipment:

• Air-conditioning
• High chairs for babies
• Table(s) for 2
• Table(s) for 4
• Table(s) for 8
• Ventilation

La Biguine

50 indoor seats and 50 outdoor seats

In a secluded and peaceful area of the resort, La Biguine restaurant is set right on the water’s edge. Here you’re guaranteed a deeply relaxing and intimate setting, the best nature can provide. Serving fresh fish and local cuisine, and an international menu, it’s a sensory heaven. Open Sundays to Thursdays. Booking is required for dinner. Non-smoking restaurant.

List of equipment:

• Table(s) for 2
• Table(s) for 4
• Table(s) for 6
• Table(s) for 8
• Ventilation

Baby corner special service

This baby corner, located in the main restaurant, proposes sweet and savoury baby foods and all the equipment necessary for preparing babies’ meals.

Bars

If ever you fancy a nice refreshing drink or a quick snack during the day, you can find these on offer all day and evening in the Resort bars during opening times. This also includes the nightclub. Our staff will always be on hand to meet your needs during your stay.

The Colibri

In the heart of the Resort, the Colibri is a great bar with a terrace and view over the ocean and pool. The bar has a cigar humidor.

The Mango

Sit with your feet in the cool sand under the shade of the tropical coconut palms at the Mango Bar. An extensive range of sublime cocktails and wines only heightens the sense of relaxation, where you can celebrate being on vacation Caribbean style. No worries – just chilled out days and long, lazy evenings.

Sports

In this Club Med Resort, novices and experts can try out exciting new sports and sensations. With GO®s trained in their particular activity, you’ll enjoy the highest standards of equipment.

• Schools: Flying trapeze with circus activities, windsurfing school, tennis school
• Free access: Basketball , Beach soccer , Beach volleyball , Volleyball , Waterpolo , Mini football , Club Med Gym® weights room , Kayaking , Stand Up Paddleboarding
• Group lessons (initiation) : Archery School, Fitness School , Aquadynamic , Pilates , Sailing School
• Group lessons for (all levels, age and date restrictions may apply): Flying Trapeze School with circus activities , Windsurfing School , Tennis School, Kitesurfing
• On site: Scuba diving, Golf, Canyoning, Swimming lessons

Discovery

• Canoeing/Kayaking
• Grande- Terre by Jeep
• Les Saintes
• Marie Galante
• North of Basse-Terre by Jeep
• Pointe-à-Pitre
• Tropical Adventure
• Wave Runner

Everything you need to know about your holiday: transport, payment types accepted, practical information about the Resort and the country.

CLUB MED LA CARAVELLE

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97180
STE ANNE
Telephone: 85 49 50
Fax: 85 49 70

The dialling code will be different according to the country you are calling from : – Call from France to Guadeloupe : Dialling code (0590) + number above – Call from USA to Guadeloupe : Dialling code (011 590 590) + number above – Call from another country to Guadeloupe : Dialling code (590 590) + number above.

Transfer package

Your package includes: return flights and transfers to and from the Resort.
Getting to the Resort

For customers who have not purchased the Transfer package.
You can book transfer to the Resort, at extra cost:
We come and pick you up at the airport on arrival, and take you to the Resort.
At the end of your holiday we take you back to the airport.
May be pre-booked, subject to availability and terms of sale.

Airport / Resort, transfer by hire car*
Possibility of renting a car at the airport (Hertz has a desk at the Resort).

The price given corresponds to transfer for all members of your party.
You can book this service with your main holiday booking, or later on, by going onto your Customer Space.
Can be booked up to two days before the start of your holiday.

*at extra cost

Transfer from Point à Pitre airport to Club Med takes around 40 minutes.

Airport at Pointe à Pitre, 26 km (16 miles) from Club Med.

Local transport

• Car rental at the Resort (Hertz).

Passports and visas

A valid passport is essential when you travel abroad. A full 10-year passport is required for holidays to all countries featured on our website. The passport must be valid for at least 6 months beyond your return date with one blank visa page. Make sure your passport is valid and check with the embassy or the consulate of your destination country if you need a visa for your chosen destination prior to travel. It is vital that the name given when booking your holiday (printed on the ticket and itinerary) is exactly the same as written on your passport. Any child, however old, must have his/her own passport.
Important:
Please note Club Med cannot be held responsible for any issue with regards to passport or visas.

Important

Please refer to the airport information section from where you are flying from for further details.

Payment options at the Resort

Currency : Euro

The Club Med Pass® card is an internal payment card which you can use for all purchases made in the Resort during your stay.
The card is issued against a 250 Euro deposit (pre-autorisation by Visa, Club Med Amex, Amex or Mastercard).

Credit cards accepted (for payments only):
● Mastercard
● Visa
● American Express
Other means of payment:
● Travellers cheques in Euros, USD and CAD
● Cheques are not accepted
● Cash (local curency)
Bureau Bureau de change near Reception.
Cash point:
● No cash withdrawal possible in the Resort
● Cash point at Sainte Anne (around 3 kms from the Club)

Hotel facilities and services

To make life easy during your stay, we offer a whole range of services:

• Beach towels – against deposit
• Club Med Boutique* : Club Med collection, local specialties and everyday items.
• Conference room* : Seats 70 (theater seating) or 35 if organised in a “U” shape.
• Courtesy room : With lockers, shower and toilets for late departures.
• Ice machine
• Laundry*
• Nappy-changing table
• Photographer*

Internet :

Wifi access for clients with a Wifi-compatible computer/telephone, in most parts of the Club Med
● Regular Wifi offer (up to 200 kbit/s) included in your Club Med Package.
● Premium Wifi offer (up to 1 Mbit/s) not included in your Club Med Package.
2015/2016 prices: 5 Euros per day or 30 Euros per week, for a maximum of 4 connected devices.

Winter 2015-2016 (prices given as an indication)
● 15 Euros per day
● 50 Euros per week.

The indoor areas and rooms are non-smoking areas (electronic cigarettes are included in the no-smoking rule).

Health formalities

Vaccinations and medical treatment
It is your responsibility to check all the necessary formalities before departure.

Vaccinations recommended:
● Polio
● Tetanus
● Hepatitis A and B
Mosquitos can transmit certain viral or parasitic diseases, so the use of tropical mosquito repellents for the skin and clothing is recommended.

The Resort has a resident nurse.

Hospital (Pointe à Pitre) : Located 25km from the Village
* at extra cost

La Guadeloupe in brief

– Surface area: 1,628 sq km
– Capital: Basse-Terre
– Official language: French / regional languate : Creole
– Currency: the Euro

Useful facts for your stay at La Caravelle Club Med

• Culinary specialties of La Guadeloupe

Seafood: Creole blood sausage, accras (cod beignets with herbs), clams (gratin or salad), ouassou (large shrimps
Dishes: vivaneau (fish), crayfish, chatrou (lobster), lambis en fricassée (sea snail stew), mateté (a type of paella)
Desserts: exotic fruits: carambola, guava, passion fruit or maracuja, bananas (fresh or jam or sorbet), corossol juice: tourment d’amour (coconut and sponge tartlet)

• Flora and fauna native to Guadeloupe

Flora: the national park of Guadeloupe, mangrove, tropical forest with trees that can reach a height of 45 metres, mahogany, acomat-boucan gum trees, coconut palms, mango, litchi and papaya trees, flamboyant, ferns, balisier or Heliconia flowers, sugar cane
Fauna: iguana, bats, anolis (small lizard), raccoons, turtles, humming birds, blackbirds, crickets

• Shopping in Guadeloupe

Craftwork: objects made of madras, coconut fibre, banana or fan palm leaves, shells, basketwork, artwork (painting and sculpture), pottery, Creole-style jewelry, embroidery, rum, fruit punch (guava, maracudja or passion fruit, banana…) sugar cane, vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, jams, boxed flowers (anthuriums, alpinias, china rose, bird of paradise plants)
Local produce: chillies, saffron, cumin, pepper, cloves, ginger, columbo

• A few useful expressions for your stay in Guadeloupe

– Hello: bonjou
– Goodbye: bonswa
– Thankyou: mèsi
– Yes / No: anhan / awa
– S’il vous plaît: souplé

Places of interest to discover in the area surrounding La Caravelle Club Med

Make the most of your stay at La Caravelle Club Med to discover the natural beauty and fascinating culture of the region.
In the middle of the south coast of Grande Terre, La Caravelle Club Med is located:
– 3 km from Sainte-Anne, a lively seaside resort with a great market on Thursdays
– 20 km from Pointe-à-Pitre, the island’s administrative capital: the old town, around the Place de la Victoire, is perfectly charming.

The climate on Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe has a tropical climate tempered by the presence of the sea and the alizé trade winds. May, June and November are the ideal months to visit La Guadeloupe.
The average temperature is around 27°C, with little difference between the hottest months (25 to 32°C) and the cooler months (23 to 20°C). The sea temperature averages 28°C.

Time difference
GMT time difference : – 4 hours BEWARE ! the dialing code will be different according to the country you are calling from : Call from USA to Guadeloupe : Dialing code (011 590 590) + number above – Call from another country to Guadeloupe : Dialing code (590 590) + number above
WEATHER

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