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Baie de St. Jean (Photo: OT/SBH/MH)
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Leave your budget-conscious self on the tarmac and take a fifteen-minute puddle-jump to St. Barts to mingle with the yacht crowd for the day. Several carriers offer flights, but Air Caraïbes has the best deals (aircaraibes.com; from $140). From the airport, it’s a short walk to the Baie de St. Jean, a crescent-shaped beach lined with five-star hotels, luxury villas, and high-end shopping. (Get a new bathing suit by hard-to-find Parisian line D nu D at Filles des Iles.) Lunch at Eden Rock’s Sand Bar, a casual, beachside restaurant (where Texas oil barons and bronzed wait staff makes for excellent eye candy), then hitch a ride (it’s safe and quite common) to Gustavia where $50,000-a-night yachts clog the harbor and celebs get their Dior and Hermès fix—before heading back to “reality” (the last flight leaves around 4:30 p.m. in the winter months).


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