Sonesta Ocean Point Resort - All Inclusive, Adults Only

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Quick Verdict

Sonesta Ocean Point Resort is the only adults-only, true all-inclusive resort on Sint Maarten — and as of 2026 it does not have a serious rival, because the property that used to be its competition, the former Secrets St. Martin (rebranded St. Martin Beach Resort & Spa in May 2025), closed abruptly on December 15, 2025 with no confirmed reopening date. If you want an adults-only all-inclusive week on this island, this is effectively the list.

Fortunately it is a good resort. All 130 units are suites, the all-inclusive plan is a real one — premium spirits, a daily-restocked minibar, 24-hour room service and all hotel taxes and service fees included — and the clifftop Edge pool over Maho Bay is one of the best pool views in the eastern Caribbean. The “Stay at One, Play at Two” arrangement also hands you the full amenity set of the adjoining Sonesta Maho Beach Resort.

The catches are structural. Ocean Point has no beach of its own; it sits above the family resort rather than away from it; and Princess Juliana International Airport’s runway ends at the sand a few hundred yards away. Go in knowing that and it is a strong 8. Expect a hushed, secluded, Anse-Marcel-style hideaway and you will be annoyed.

Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Only true adults-only all-inclusive on the island	No private beach — you use Maho/The Palms next door
All-suite: 130 suites, all with balcony or terrace	Adults-only zone sits directly above a 420-room family resort
The Edge clifftop zero-entry infinity pool	Constant low-altitude jet noise (and occasional fuel smell)
Full access to Sonesta Maho Beach Resort’s venues	Only 3 restaurants are Ocean Point-exclusive
Premium spirits, minibar and taxes all included	Service quality is inconsistent guest to guest in 2025-2026 reviews
Butler service in top suite categories	House wine is basic; better bottles carry a supplement
Casino Royale and Maho Village nightlife on the doorstep	Maho Village noise carries — this is not a quiet corner of the island

The Resort at a Glance

Detail	Info
Suites	130 (all-suite property)
Restaurants	3 exclusive to Ocean Point (Azul, Portofino, Bluefin) plus Pizzeria Napoli and full access to Maho’s seven venues
Bars	4 exclusive bars and lounges, including OneZero Bar, the Seascape infinity bar and the Sunset Bar + Lounge — plus all of Maho’s bars
Pools	3 — The Edge (clifftop, zero-entry), The Point Pool (cabanas), and a semi-private swim-out pool for Swim-Out Suites
Beach	No dedicated Ocean Point beach. A small cliffside beach area below The Edge, plus Maho Beach and the man-made Palms Beach at the sister resort
Airport	Princess Juliana International (SXM) — roughly half a mile; often under 10 minutes by car and genuinely walkable
Location	1A Rhine Road, Maho Bay, Lowlands, Dutch side
Adults-only?	Yes — the only one of its kind on Sint Maarten
Opened / rebuilt	Opened mid-2010s; rebuilt and refurbished after Hurricane Irma damage in September 2017. Sonesta does not publish a single “opened” year
Chain	Sonesta Hotels & Resorts
All-inclusive status	True all-inclusive — there is no room-only rate

Rooms and Suites

The baseline suites

There is no “standard room” here, which is the single best thing about the product. Every one of the 130 units is a suite with a private balcony or terrace, and the finish level is consistent: Italian Modena porcelain floors, a Greek marble bathroom, 400-thread-count linens, a minifridge restocked daily, a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi. Junior Suites are the entry point — a single large room with a seating area rather than a separate lounge, but with genuine square footage and, in most categories, a view over Maho Bay or the Caribbean.

The neutral palette (sand, white, pale wood) has aged reasonably well, but this is where the honesty has to come in: a slice of 2025-2026 reviews describe the hardware as “outdated” or “run down,” particularly in bathrooms and on balconies exposed to salt air. It is not universal — plenty of guests report immaculate suites — but at $300-550 a night you should photograph anything that is not right on day one and ask for a move while the resort still has inventory.

Swim-Out and Butler Suites

The Swim-Out Suites are the signature category and, for most couples, the ones worth paying for. They open onto a semi-private pool that only swim-out guests can use, which in practice means you get a quiet body of water when The Point Pool fills up. The Sunset Butler Swim-Out Suites add a west-facing aspect and butler service — genuinely useful here, because the butlers handle restaurant reservations at both resorts, which is the main friction point of a stay.

Above that sit the Butler Suites and, at the top, the Luxury Penthouse. Butler-tier packages add upgraded Wi-Fi, curated wines in the room, nightly turndown and round-the-clock room service handled by your butler rather than a call center. If you are coming for a milestone anniversary and want the resort to feel like the five stars on the sign, this is the tier that gets you there.

Our pick

Book a Sunset Butler Swim-Out Suite if the budget stretches, and a Junior Suite on a higher floor on the Maho Bay side if it does not. Avoid the lowest floors closest to the sister resort’s circulation areas — that is where the “I could hear the family resort” reviews come from. And request a room away from the Maho Village side if you are a light sleeper; the bar strip runs late.

Food and Dining

Azul

Azul is the signature restaurant and the one you will use most: it serves full breakfast daily and switches to Mediterranean-leaning lunch and dinner menus. It is à la carte at every meal, which is the point of paying Ocean Point money rather than Maho money — you are buying your way out of a buffet week. Breakfast here is the strongest meal of the day at the resort, and it is worth getting down early before the balcony tables go.

Portofino

Portofino is the dinner-only Italian, offered both à la carte and as a five-course tasting menu. It is the most “occasion” restaurant on the property and the one to book for your best night. Reservations are essential in high season and are the single most common source of guest frustration — book on arrival, not on the day.

Bluefin Restaurant + Bar

Bluefin is the casual daytime option: light afternoon bites, and poke-inspired dinners on selected evenings. It is a genuinely good lunch — the raw-fish bowls are a relief in the heat — but note the “select evenings” phrasing. It is not a nightly dinner venue, and if you assumed three exclusive restaurants meant three dinner rotations, you will find yourself at Maho more often than you planned.

Eating at the Maho side

“Stay at One, Play at Two” means you can eat at all seven of the sister resort’s venues: the Ocean Terrace buffet, The Palms Beach Grill (which becomes Cantina Paradiso, a Mexican concept, at dinner), La Fontana for Italian, Jing’s Kitchen for Asian, The Village Tavern for pub food and late-night snacks, Pizzeria Napoli and the Maho Café. This is a real benefit and a real caveat at once. It roughly triples your options; it also means that on several nights of a week-long stay you are eating in a busy family resort you did not book.

Bars and drinks

The all-inclusive plan covers unlimited international and domestic premium beer, wine and spirits at all Ocean Point bars — OneZero, the Seascape infinity bar and the Sunset Bar + Lounge among them — plus every bar at Maho. Premium spirits genuinely are included; this is not one of the properties where the good stuff sits behind a supplement. (If you want the general rules on this, our guide to what all-inclusive alcohol policies actually cover is a useful sanity check.)

The weak link is wine. The house pours are basic, they are the same list the family resort serves, and better bottles carry a charge — a recurring complaint in 2025-2026 reviews, and a fair one at this rate. If wine matters to you, budget for it or plan a night out in Grand Case on the French side.

Food quality verdict

Better than the island average and clearly a step above the Maho side — several reviewers who have stayed at both say exactly that. It is not a culinary destination, and St. Martin is an island where the best food is emphatically outside the resort gates. Treat Azul and Portofino as solid, and treat one dinner in Grand Case or Marigot as part of the trip.

Beach and Pools

The beach

This is the honest weak point, and it is worth being blunt: Ocean Point does not have its own beach. It sits on a headland above Maho Bay. Below The Edge there is a small cliffside beach area, and guests otherwise use Maho Beach — the famous one, where jets from Princess Juliana come in low enough to blow sand — and The Palms Beach, a man-made private beach on the sister resort’s side with loungers and service.

Maho Beach is a spectacle, not a swimming beach. It is narrow, the surf can be punchy, and it is a public tourist attraction with a permanent audience of plane-spotters. The Palms is calmer and more resort-like but shared with a 420-room family property. If a wide, quiet, private stretch of sand is your priority, Sint Maarten’s all-inclusive scene is not really where that lives — look at Dawn Beach on the east coast or the French side’s Baie Longue.

Pools

The pools are the reason to be here. The Edge is the headline: a zero-entry, clifftop infinity pool set at the tip of the point, with the water line appearing to spill into Maho Bay. It is genuinely one of the best pool positions in the Caribbean and it photographs exactly as well as it looks. The Point Pool is the sociable one, ringed with cabanas and closer to the bars. The swim-out pool is the quiet one, semi-private to the Swim-Out Suites.

Add the pools at Maho — including the big Oasis pool with its swim-up bar and waterslides — and you have far more water than 130 suites need. In practice, Ocean Point guests spend their days at The Edge and their evenings anywhere else.

Activities and Entertainment

Daytime

Ocean Point is deliberately low-key by day: SunFit body and lifestyle sessions, a fitness center with panoramic views over Maho Bay, pool service, and not much organized noise. That is a feature, not a bug — if you want animation teams and beach volleyball, they are 200 yards downhill at the family resort and included.

Off-property, Maho’s position is the strong argument for this resort. Mullet Bay, the best swimming beach on the Dutch side, is a few minutes away. Simpson Bay’s restaurant and bar strip is a short drive. Philipsburg’s cruise-port shopping is 15-20 minutes. The French side — Marigot’s market, Grand Case’s restaurant row, Orient Bay — is 30-45 minutes and, on an island where the food outside the resorts outclasses the food inside them, worth at least two days of your week.

Evening

Evenings are Maho’s territory, and that is the trade. Casino Royale, across the road, is the island’s biggest gaming floor — over 21,000 square feet with tables, slots and a poker room — and Maho Village’s bar strip runs late. Ocean Point’s own evening scene is the Sunset Bar + Lounge and dinner. Couples who want a nightcap with a view stay up top; couples who want a night out walk five minutes.

There is no kids’ club here and no children on the property. Children are, however, very much present at the sister resort you share amenities with — worth knowing if “adults-only” means “I want to see no children at all” to you. For genuinely sealed-off adult properties, see our best adults-only all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean roundup.

Spa and Wellness

Wellness runs through the Serenity Spa on the Sonesta campus, which offers massages, facials and body treatments plus steam and sauna facilities. Spa treatments are not included in the all-inclusive plan — expect Caribbean resort pricing, and book early in the week because the treatment slots that pair with sunset fill first.

The fitness center is included and is better than the category norm: properly equipped and positioned with panoramic views over Maho Bay, which makes a morning session considerably less of a chore. The included SunFit sessions cover the usual stretch, aqua and light-training slots. This is not a destination wellness resort — there is no thermal circuit, no hydrotherapy suite — but for a week of massages and morning workouts it does the job.

What’s Included vs Extra

Included	Extra
All meals at Azul, Portofino, Bluefin and Pizzeria Napoli	Spa treatments
Full access to all seven restaurants at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort	Premium/reserve wine bottles above the house list
Unlimited premium international and domestic spirits, beer, wine, soft drinks	Motorized water sports (jet ski, parasailing — third-party operators)
Minibar restocked daily (soft drinks, water, beer, spirits)	Airport transfers (short taxi — the airport is under a mile)
24-hour room service and pool service	Casino Royale gaming
Wi-Fi in suites and public areas (upgraded Wi-Fi in butler tiers)	Excursions, island tours, car rental
Fitness center, SunFit sessions, daytime activities	Private dining for groups over 16 (event-space rental applies)
Nightly entertainment across the Sonesta campus	Nothing off-property, obviously — St. Martin’s best restaurants are outside the gates
All hotel taxes, utility and service fees
Butler service (top suite categories only)

Gratuities are effectively handled inside the rate through the included service fees, though staff will not refuse a tip for exceptional service. Our all-inclusive tipping guide covers the etiquette if you would rather not guess.

Pricing and How to Book

Price ranges by season

Season	Typical nightly rate (two adults, all-inclusive)
Low (Sept-Oct, hurricane season)	$300-360
Shoulder (May-Aug, early Nov)	$330-420
High (mid-Dec-Apr)	$420-520
Christmas / New Year / Presidents’ Week	$520-550+, with minimum-stay requirements

Rates change with season and availability — confirm the current rate and exactly what’s included before you book.

Sint Maarten’s high season is long and expensive: December through April is when North American demand, cruise traffic and the best weather all collide. September and October are the cheapest weeks of the year for the obvious reason — this is the peak of Atlantic hurricane season, on an island that was flattened by Irma in September 2017. If you book those dates, buy proper travel insurance and mean it.

Best time to book

For Christmas and February half-term, book 8-11 months out; those weeks sell at rack rate and stay there. For May-June and November, waiting is fine and often rewarded — Sonesta runs meaningful shoulder-season promotions. The sweet spot on price-to-weather is the first three weeks of December and the second half of April: high-season conditions, shoulder-season pricing.

Where to book

Compare Booking.com against Sonesta direct and against the North American all-inclusive packagers (Apple Vacations, Funjet, CheapCaribbean, JetBlue Vacations), because on this property the packagers frequently beat the direct rate once flights are bundled — SXM has strong non-stop service from the US East Coast. Whatever channel you use, confirm in writing that the rate is the all-inclusive plan and which suite category you are getting; the difference between a Junior Suite and a Swim-Out Suite is the difference between two quite different holidays.

Compared to Nearby Resorts

The closest comparison is literally next door: Sonesta Maho Beach Resort, Casino & Spa, the 420-room family sibling that shares the campus. It costs roughly $100-150 a night less, it is also true all-inclusive, and Ocean Point guests can use everything it has. If you do not need adults-only or all-suite accommodation, Maho is the better value — and if you do, Ocean Point is worth the premium mostly for the suites and The Edge.

Divi Little Bay Beach Resort at Little Bay is the other realistic option for a couple who want an inclusive plan. It is quieter, it has a proper private beach with a Saba view and historic Fort Amsterdam on the property, and it is cheaper — but its all-inclusive is an optional two-tier package rather than a default rate, and its hardware draws more maintenance complaints than Ocean Point’s.

For more space and self-catering flexibility, Simpson Bay Resort, Marina & Spa has the island’s biggest suite-and-villa inventory with an optional bolt-on AI plan, and Oyster Bay Beach Resort at Oyster Pond sits next to Dawn Beach — far better swimming and snorkeling than anything at Maho — again with AI sold as an add-on. The Morgan Resort Spa & Village is the budget option near Mullet Bay, with AI by inquiry. Our full St. Martin destination guide lays out how thin the true-AI market on this island really is.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Sonesta Ocean Point really all-inclusive?

Yes — genuinely, and without a room-only alternative. The rate covers all meals at the resort’s own restaurants and at the seven venues on the adjoining Sonesta Maho Beach Resort, unlimited premium international and domestic spirits, beer, wine and soft drinks, a minibar restocked daily, 24-hour room service, pool service, Wi-Fi, the fitness center, entertainment, and all hotel taxes, utility and service fees. Spa treatments, motorized water sports, casino play and upgraded wine bottles are the main extras.

Is it truly adults-only?

The property itself is adults-only — no children stay at Ocean Point. But the “Stay at One, Play at Two” arrangement runs both ways in terms of geography: you share a campus with a 420-room family resort, and its beach, buffet and pools are where you will spend part of your week. Several 2025-2026 reviewers said the separation felt thinner than the price difference implied. If you want a sealed-off adult bubble, this is not quite it.

How bad is the airplane noise?

Real, constant and unmissable. Princess Juliana’s runway ends at Maho Beach, and arrivals pass a few hundred feet over the sand and the resort. Daytime flight traffic is heavy; it thins out considerably in the evening, so sleep is usually fine. Some guests also report the smell of jet fuel on the beach when a heavy aircraft powers up. For many people this is the reason to come. For others it is the reason not to.

What happened to Secrets St. Martin, and does it matter?

It matters a lot to this resort’s position. The former Secrets St. Martin Resort & Spa at Anse Marcel — built on the site of the pre-Irma Riu Palace St. Martin and opened in February 2020 — left the Hyatt Inclusive Collection and rebranded as the independent St. Martin Beach Resort & Spa on May 31, 2025. It then closed abruptly on December 15, 2025, and as of mid-2026 there is no confirmed reopening date. That closure removed the island’s other adults-only all-inclusive and left Ocean Point without a direct competitor.

Does Ocean Point have its own beach?

No. It occupies a headland above Maho Bay. There is a small cliffside beach area below The Edge pool, and guests otherwise use Maho Beach (the famous plane-spotting one, narrow and public) or The Palms Beach, a man-made private beach on the sister resort’s side. If beach quality is your top criterion, Sint Maarten’s better sand — Mullet Bay, Dawn Beach, Orient Bay — is a drive away rather than at your feet.

Is it worth paying up from Sonesta Maho Beach Resort?

If you are a couple, probably yes — you get an all-suite room, three restaurants you do not have to share, four exclusive bars, The Edge, and a much calmer daytime environment, while retaining access to everything at the family resort. If you are travelling as friends or with older teens, or if the budget is tight, Maho gets you the same island position and the same all-inclusive plan for meaningfully less, and you can buy a lot of dinners in Grand Case with the difference.

Final Verdict: 8.1 out of 10

Sonesta Ocean Point is the right answer to a narrow question: where do two adults go for an all-inclusive week on Sint Maarten? With the former Secrets property dark since December 2025, nothing else on the island offers adults-only, all-suite accommodation on a true all-inclusive plan. And it does the job well — The Edge is a genuinely memorable pool, the suites are properly specified, the drinks plan is honest about premium spirits, and the run-of-two-resorts access adds real range to a small property.

What keeps it off a 9 is that it is a very good resort in an imperfect spot. No beach of its own, jets overhead all day, a family resort immediately downhill, and a 2025-2026 review pattern that keeps circling back to inconsistent service and tired patches of hardware at a rate that promises polish. None of that ruins a week. All of it belongs in the decision.

Book it if you want Maho’s energy — casino, bars, plane-spotting, easy island access — with an adults-only base and a serious pool. Look at Dawn Beach, Anse Marcel or the French side if what you actually want is quiet sand and a good restaurant within walking distance. And read our St. Martin destination guide before you commit, because on this island the question of whether to book all-inclusive at all is a genuinely open one.