A senior independent St Barts concierge sat with us on April 28 and walked through her 2026 book of 42 villa weeks across the high season, 14 of those on the southeast Toiny coastline. The 22-suite Le Toiny hotel on Anse de Toiny has been the anchor of that side of the island since the 1990s, and the 2024 refit corrected the one service line that had been drifting. The realistic concierge fee for a Toiny week is 8,400 to 42,000 US dollars, separate from the restaurant, beach club, and boat day spend. The Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve dinner at Le Toiny are placed by July 1 of the prior year. The week-of December call for a December 31 table is the single placement she no longer takes. The piece below is the rate band, the four anchor reservations of the Toiny week, the placement timeline at Le Toiny, the Gustavia rooms that still close inside 11 days, the boat day math, and the brief that closes a Toiny week without losing the white space the side of the island is built on.
By The Villas For Kings desk
The Toiny coastline is the southeast tip of St Barts. Three coves, one paved road that dead-ends at the hotel, and a 14-minute drive into Gustavia along the Saline cutoff. The villa book on that side runs at 22 to 38 properties depending on the year, set above the Atlantic line on the slopes that fall from Morne du Vitet. The concierge we sat with has held 42 villa weeks on her 2026 calendar since November, with 14 on the Toiny side and the remainder split between Lurin, Pointe Milou, Colombier, and the Camaruche ridge above Gustavia.
Ninety-one percent of her Toiny book is repeat clients. The 9 percent new client share is the line she vets hardest because the new client who books a Toiny villa for the first time often does so on the wrong premise. The premise that Toiny is a quiet evening alternative to Gustavia. It is not. It is a full-island base with the hotel restaurant as the closest dinner, the Gustavia rooms as the four-night anchor program, and the beach club as the daytime line. The new client who skips the hotel restaurant program loses the white space the side of the island is built on.
The walkthrough below is hers. The placements, deposit timelines, and rate bands are 2026-specific. We have audited her placements across four 2024 and 2025 client weeks on Toiny villas.
The 8,400 US dollar entry buys a remote concierge program with two villa-side check-ins across the week. The concierge does the restaurant and beach club placements, the boat day booking, the airport program at Saint-Jean, and the inter-island helicopter to Saint Martin or Anguilla if the booking is a connecting one. The 16,000 to 22,000 dollar middle of the band, where most of her Toiny book sits in January and February, buys a five-day villa-side desk. A senior concierge on the villa for breakfast and dinner, with the off-days covered remotely. The 42,000 dollar top end is reserved for the December 26 to January 4 week and the second week of February. It buys a daily villa-side concierge plus a second on call for the closing weekend, the full restaurant program at Le Toiny and Gustavia, two beach club lock-ins, two boat days, the helicopter program if the family is connecting in from Antigua or San Juan, and a 24-hour line for the New Year's Eve dinner placement. The concierge fee sits separate from the restaurant and beach club spend, which on a 12-guest Christmas-New Year week clears at 38,000 to 142,000 dollars depending on the program.
Every well-built Toiny week sits on four anchor reservations placed before the villa contract is signed. The four anchors for the December 28 to January 4 week in 2026 on her book are the Le Toiny restaurant Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve dinner (whichever week the villa runs), the Bonito sunset dinner in Gustavia, the Le Sereno beach lunch on the Grand Cul-de-Sac side, and the Shellona Sunday brunch at Shell Beach. The four anchors carry the week. The remaining lunches and dinners drop into the gaps. The Toiny restaurant table is the one most new clients try to skip, on the premise that they will eat at the villa with a private chef. The senior concierge talks them out of it. Le Toiny in 2026 is a two-restaurant operation, with La Table for fine dining and the Beach Club for lunch. The Beach Club lunch is the white-tablecloth daytime placement that a Toiny villa week cannot replace with a chef booking, because the chef does not sit the family at a table on the sand at one in the afternoon.
The Le Toiny restaurant Christmas Eve dinner and New Year's Eve dinner in 2026 are placed by July 1 of the prior year. The hotel runs both nights on a set menu with a deposit non-refundable inside 90 days of the date. The deposit is 1,200 to 1,800 euros per cover. The placement requires the villa contract to be signed at the time of booking, because the hotel will not hold the table on a villa enquiry. The Bonito New Year's Eve dinner runs a similar pattern, placed by August 1. The Shellona January 1 brunch table runs a 60-day window. The Le Sereno beach lunch on a New Year's Day or January 2 placement clears at 14 days for a table of six or fewer, but the cabana with a private server is placed by October 1. Senior concierges place the four anchors at the time of the villa booking. Clients who land in mid-December with no anchor placements get a residual program of second-tier tables, which the family did not want.
One call type she no longer takes. The December 27 enquiry for a December 31 dinner at Le Toiny or any of the four headline Gustavia rooms (Bonito, Bagatelle, Bar de l'Oubli upstairs, or the L'Isola corner room). The placement rate on a four-day-out call for a New Year's Eve placement is under 6 percent. The failure damages the trust on every other request that week. The same call type runs at 18 percent for a non-holiday January Tuesday and at 38 percent for a non-holiday February Wednesday. The senior concierge takes those. She does not take the week-of New Year's call. The client who insists is offered a private chef on the villa and a 30-minute window for the family to walk down to the cove for a champagne tray at 11:30 p.m. The arrangement is not Le Toiny. The villa renter who needs Le Toiny on December 31 books at the July 1 window.
The Gustavia rooms that still close inside 11 days for a January or early-February Toiny week, on her 2026 book. The Bonito side terrace at the 9:30 p.m. second seating clears at 6 to 8 days for a table of six. The Bagatelle Wednesday late dinner clears at 4 to 7 days for a table of eight, with the cabaret tip running 800 to 1,400 euros. The Le Repaire upstairs lunch clears at 2 to 4 days. The Eddy's garden dinner clears at 3 to 6 days. The L'Isola corner upstairs window clears at 5 to 9 days. None of those rooms place at the same window in the Christmas-New Year week. The two-week shoulder of January 7 to 20 is the strongest short-window stretch on the calendar, and the rates on the second tier of villas drop 14 to 28 percent against the holiday week. The client who needs Le Toiny on a budget runs that two-week shoulder with the hotel restaurant at half the lock-in pressure.
The Anse de Toiny side does not have a public dock for tenders or a hotel pickup pier. Boats run from Lorient or Public, which means the boat day starts with a 14 to 22 minute villa-to-pier transfer. A 12-meter day charter in the Christmas-New Year week clears at 8,500 to 14,000 euros before fuel and food. A 14-meter clears at 14,000 to 22,000 euros. The Anguilla day trip with a beach lunch at Bankie Banx clears at the high end and runs a six-hour minimum. The Saint Martin day trip with a Grand Case lunch clears at the lower end. The single misread on a new client brief is to assume the villa's pool day is interchangeable with the boat day. It is not. The Toiny villas above the Atlantic line have a wind exposure that closes the villa pool deck on a 22-knot easterly. The boat day on the lee side of the island is the contingency, not the alternative, and the lee side does not exist for the Toiny villa without a 18-minute drive over the ridge.
The Le Toiny Beach Club was the one service line that had been drifting in 2022 and 2023. The 2024 refit reset the kitchen line, brought in a new pastry program, and rebuilt the cabana service rotation so a single server is not running 18 covers across nine palapas. The 2025 season ran cleaner. The 2026 season is the first full year on the new model. The placement at 12:30 p.m. on the front-row palapa line runs a 7 to 14 day window for a January or February Friday or Saturday. The minimum spend in 2026 is 1,400 to 2,200 euros per palapa. The Royal Hammam analogue on the spa side runs separately under the Le Toiny spa name, with the spa-day-into-lunch package clearing at 1,800 to 2,800 euros per guest. The pastry program is the line the senior concierge flags as the strongest 2025 to 2026 carryover. The hot baba with St Barts rum reads as a hotel signature in a way it did not in 2023.
Forty percent at lock-in, 40 percent four weeks out, the balance on arrival. The 40 percent is non-refundable inside eight weeks for the Christmas-New Year window and inside six weeks for the rest of the high season. The second tranche is non-refundable on date. The arrival tranche is not refundable. The restaurant, beach club, and boat day deposits are pass-through to the venue, with the concierge holding the venue's terms on the contract. Hurricane-clause and named-storm conversion is the line clients ask about most. The St Barts high season runs December to April, which sits outside the hurricane window, so the typical conversion is a 72-hour island-closure clause around an off-season tropical depression. The single dispute pattern the concierge flags is a client who books in early November for a late-November villa week and runs into a late-season Atlantic storm. The Le Toiny restaurant deposit converts at 72 hours of island closure. The Gustavia rooms convert at 24 hours. The beach club does not convert.
Three lines on the first call. The villa, the dates, and the headcount split by age band. Three lines on the second call. The four anchor reservations the family wants placed first, the boat day operator preference (Public or Lorient pier), and the airport program at Saint-Jean. Three lines on the third call. The dietary and wine register, the closing-night dinner preference, and the contingency permission for the easterly wind day. Nine lines clear the program inside the four-month lock-in window. Inside three weeks the program is the residual. Our work on the Mykonos concierge on the impossible reservation covers the parallel placement discipline on the Cyclades side. Our work on the Mediterranean helicopter operator covers the inter-island transfer math.
What does the concierge cost? 8,400 to 42,000 US dollars for a seven-night week on the Toiny side. Most weeks sit at 16,000 to 22,000.
When do I lock in? July 1 of the prior year for the Le Toiny Christmas-New Year dinner. October 1 for the New Year's Day brunch. 60 days for the Shellona January 1 brunch.
What is the hardest reservation? The Le Toiny New Year's Eve dinner. Placed by July 1. 1,200 to 1,800 euros per cover deposit, non-refundable inside 90 days.
Which call do you refuse? The December 27 enquiry for a December 31 dinner at Le Toiny or any headline Gustavia room.
What is the line clients underprice? The boat day. Anse de Toiny has no public dock, so boats run from Lorient or Public. A 12-meter day clears at 8,500 to 14,000 euros.
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