We stayed at the Lone Star for two nights and loved it! The staff is fantastic- every request is meet with a smile and an 'of course!'

Despite the restaurant being so close and the music it played at night, we couldn't hear any of it in our room. The acoustics were well planned.

The rooms are well furnished and the beds are very comfortable. The food at the restaurant is excellent! And the wine list is good, especially considering it's the Caribbean.

We knew this hotel because of the restaurant, having eaten there a number of times (Sunday Lunch is particularly good) and as we like to stay somewhere different each visit we decided to stay at the hotel.

There are just four beachfront suites and they are named after 'old' American cars. Our suite was the 'Lincoln' and we think the position of this would make it our favourite. Private but with a bit of buzz coming from the restaurant in the evenings. We had our own little bridge leading from our massive terrace to the restaurant and the beach.

Each morning four sets of loungers and sun-umbrellas are put out on the beach - not in the horrible rows that you see at other locations (with guests dashing out to reserve one of them with a towel or a book!!) but indiscriminately placed - two under a palm tree, two near the water's edge etc etc, you get the picture.

Most days we had the (inclusive) breakfast on our terrace which was a wonderful way to start the day. Very occasionally we ventured to the restaurant (because we had forgotten to book brekkies the evening before!).

Very friendly staff, especially Debbie who looks after the hotel side of things and is the person to e-mail for information, advice, bookings etc. Owner friendly and so are all the restaurant staff, office staff and chambermaids. Didn't see the Manager which was surprising.

Cannot fault anything at all and would recommend the hotel to anyone and everyone. Good value too.

My only disappointment is that although the bathrooms are enormous with a shower that must be at least five-foot-square, there isn't a bath - and I do love my soak. My husband was more than happy with the shower and I imagine most people would be and it certainly isn't something that would put me off going again.

The very highest of recommendations.

it is the most excellent place to stay to get away from it all, without missing all the pleasures in life. you can be as anonamous as you like and still have the most friendly staff available all the time. a dream.

The Lonestar is small - 4 rooms - and has its upsides but also downsides. We stayed in Cord for a week. Good big room, big shower room (no bath), great, v large terrace with the best view of the 4 rooms down the beach & possibly the best view of any room terrace on the island.. We think is the best room overall, certainly for privacy - the 2 rooms below certainly are less private. Room decor is quite Ian Shrager/Phillip Strack & works well. Satellite flat screen TV, wet bar, dark wood floor, white curtains etc. Hotel is next to a v v busy road , however, & due to a large piece of loose road surface directly outside the room a strange banging ( like someone hitting the wall outside with a sledgehammer ) occurred every time a lorry or bus drove over it. It drove me a bit nuts but my wife wasn't bothered by it at all. We never heard any noise from any other room.

On arrival Debbie was superb. Showed us straight into the room & told us all the things we needed to know, where to book to eat etc. Immediately afterwards we were having lunch in their restaurant & she came with faxed menus of places we had mentioned, booking done etc. Excellent. Restaurant itself served good food, usually quickly, although it get a few orders wrong & in certain parts of the restaurant / outside tables you had to struggle to get yourself noticed. Menu not inexpensive but about London bistro/restaurant prices - no complaints at all, with wide choice from burger to sushi. View from restaurant across the beach is good & hotel guests always given good tables on the front, although there was a fair amount of confusion from different members of staff about whether you had to say you either were going to have dinner or not &, therefore, whether they had reserved a table for you. One night when we had said we were eating we came down to be told that reception had just cancelled our booking & we weren't eating. A table was found after a while but it was all a bit confusing & made to seem like our fault when no one had spoken to us at all. Eating breakfast in the restaurant was another matter, however. The staff were always setting up for lunch & we felt like we were an inconvenience, getting in their way. Slow service, quite sloppy with little idea of when to bring what part of the order - eggs delivered, followed 10 minutes later by the toast & finally as you are about to leave, cereal. After a few days of this, it got on my nerves so I mentioned the service being 10 degrees off to the General Manager. I told him that taking into account the Peak Season prices, the service was falling short, including having no service whatsoever on the small beach area outside the rooms, which is a bit scrappy, especially as next door to the hotel rooms is an unattractive, rundown squat. I have to say he handled the feedback really well - he listened, agreed & immediately did something about it & we saw an improvement straight away. On departure day he phoned & said that he was deducting a couple of nights stay & our final dinner from our bill, all unprompted. I think that is gracious & was a positive surprise, that I was more than happy to accept.

So, overall, this feels like a restaurant with rooms as the hotel facilities are limited - no pool etc, limited, small beach area directly in front of the rooms, next to the restaurant, limited/non-existent service whilst you are on it. A slight scrappy feeling to the beach area that, with some thought, could be so much better. In the low/off peak season at $300 p night it would be fine perhaps but during Peak Season (now $850 ++ p night) it is below standard. Having said all that, we had to stay one night at the Colony Club as we missed our connection to Mustique on the first day & Lonestar is massively better than there. With a little work & attention it could really hit the spot. We would return but only to Cord & not at Peak Season when the offering is overpriced. Other good points - no children, v few beach hawkers,away from all the other "platinum coast" hotels crammed in further down the beach.