St. Barts - A luxury destination in the Caribbean - LUXE.TV

🌴 Saint Barthelemy - A luxury destination in the Caribbean - LUXE.TV
** The busiest airport in the French Antilles
** Northern most island of the Lesser Antilles
** History of the island
** Tourism sector in St Barts
** Agreeable weather throughout the year
With the fast approaching holiday season, the small island of St-Bart’s is long familiar with the private planes of the Jet Set. As you will discover, landing on this northern most island of the Lesser Antilles is very spectacular. Facing the wind, the pilot has to fly low, at an altitude of 30 metres, the descent coming from the mountain before turning to touch down on the tarmac that is only 650 metres long. The consequence of this is that only pilots with special training can land at St-Bart’s. Taking off facing the mountain is just as spectacular. Only small planes with a maximum space for 20 passengers can land at the airport. Entry for large carriers is at the international airport of St Maarten located 25 kms away.
In spite of the difficult take off and landing, the Gustave III airport is the busiest airport in the French Antilles with 35,000 flights per year, 6,000 being private charters.
St. Barts, it’s full name being Saint Barthelemy, was discovered by Christopher Colombus at the end of the 15th century. He named the island after his brother Barthomley. This small island only 24 square km’s belonged in turn to the Spanish, the French, the Swedes and then the French again in 1878. Christopher Colombus didn’t stay on St. Barts; the volcanic island didn’t have any precious metals and notably no gold. But 60 years ago, that all changed.
St. Barts became a sought after luxurious holiday destination thanks to American millionaire David Rockefeller who bought a property there in 1957. Today the island is inhabited in large part by colony descendants from France. The island counts a little more than 9,000 residents. The tourism sector employs about 37% of the workforce. Priority is given to premium tourism; it’s receives about 300,000 visitors per year.
St. Barts is unique because it only has two seasons. First, is the period locals call Lent where the temperature is an average of 27 degrees from December 1st to May 30th. It’s High season and is more favourable for discovering turtles and 183 different species of fish in the volcanic craters. The second season is called winter and is on the contrary to it’s name, the hottest season, with an average temperature of 30 degrees Celsius from June 1st to November 30th. It should be noted that St Barts, which is presented as “the art of being an island” offers lighting that perfectly blends with the new TV picture broadcast technology of Ultra High Definition 4k. And to finish this Jet Set escapade to St. Barts, we offer you a spectacular take off from the little airport of Gustave III. Paris is 8,500 km away, and New York, 2,500.
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[@Wilds-pm2sb]

Very small but so beautiful

[@marialucivazferreira5373]

how fantastic is São Bartolomeu island.beautiful place, wonderful island,gustavia.

[@lifelife1616]

This wasn’t discovered by Columbus. You can’t discover something where people already live

[@MrDayna39]

Very true, the wording is misleading and disrespectful to the original inhabitants, it's like saying they were not people,

[@amanciocohen5965]

No one lived there before it was discovered.

[@lifelife1616]

@@amanciocohen5965 there may not be anything written in the history books about habitants living on the island prior to Columbus but Captain Cook labelled the Aboriginal people of Australia as flora and fauna to justify what they did there. The Caribbean islands had natives on them before they were so called “discovered”

[@CountNikiko]

@@lifelife1616 not all Caribbean islands had inhabitants on them.

[@lifelife1616]

@@CountNikiko yes I’m aware of that. There are 3000 islands and they weren’t all inhabited. However I certainly don’t believe the white washed history as I said. Other British discoverers labelled humans as flora and fauna to justify their takeover.

[@user-mp6cj5he1o]

Danke aus Deutschland 🇩🇪🇪🇺

[@oskareklund963]

The airport gets an unfair amount of air time in this video

[@phoenixbelfield8469]

I totally agree. Felt like viewing time wasted. Less time on the island and more on the planes

[@alisonbethel7541]

Agreed

[@lucilleromain3402]

Buautiful island

[@alejandravasquez691]

Hermoso lugar! 😍

[@gerardoservat3535]

VIVA ESPAÑA JODER

[@raquelulep5941]

👏 👏 👏

[@amanciocohen5965]

What? "Private jets of the Jetset"? The speaker has clearly never been to St Barts- that airport is too small for private jets, only super small commercial ones from a few companies (one owned by the president, St Barth Commuter) are allowed there. Private jets fly to St Marteen.

[@lancevivianmarsh4274]

He said private charters...

[@joelouis5118]

Nice place

[@nacnahm73]

ahhh travelling and your holidays ruined by the airport and advertisements..... beautiful landing and taking off but what about the island

[@aukvit5g]

Njuta av varlden .. disfruta del mundo.

[@dmitrydergachev1448]

Very nice video!

[@thisgarbageiscoralgable.88]

Great video ! ~Who is the great music by ? 😎

[@hareshc7590]

❤💛💚❤️💙❤️💚🥰💚❤️💛💐🌷💐🌷💐👍🌸🌸💚great place

[@thedcrypted]

Great, no I know how to fly to st barts

[@knowthyself8233]

Where is Ontario finance minister?👀

[@zolakhadijah7634]

this is the land of the Carib people. not the french.

[@forward_ever_ever2595]

Correct..indirectly speaking. "Carib" was a term coined by the British. Their true names were Kalinago & Tanios.

[@briantravelman]

It's not the northern most island. Anegada is. Even St. Martin and Anguilla are further north.

[@aannajwan731]

Me it the US Virgin Islands.

[@MarcelloAntestaco]

What's the obsession with planes in the beginning? A 6 min video of a place and 1/3 is about tiny planes 😂

[@yeolefatdad8872]

Taking off facing the mountain????? No one did!

[@victoriaperkovic4938]

Maybe one day...

[@xyz987123abc]

Such a silly and disappointing video. Just what I always wanted to know about: the airport. Nothing about beaches, hotels, restaurants or festivals...

[@oliviermosimann6931]

Agreed. Guess our little billionaires are shy...

[@peggyt1243]

@@oliviermosimann6931 I was there once for a day. It is very very very expensive and totally French with French currency and Gendarmes. The island is so tiny, you can walk from the west side to the east side. Price wise, one week in Cuba is one day in St Barts. The airport is fascinating which is why they feature it.

[@amanciocohen5965]

They didn't even get that correctly. I"ve never seen a private jet in St Barts, the track is way too small.

[@zooker2185]

Because this is a famous spot for aviation enthusiasts? This island is quite famous for that reason

[@leeharrison9689]

Congratulations Sammy

[@DEAFPERCY1]

Beautiful video .

[@tomasbleho1775]

just checking out where our finance minister is during lockdown .

[@jameswynter1339]

Lol bro I just seen that he should be arriving at Pearson soon, so I decided to take a look at where he's coming from

[@tomasbleho1775]

james Wynter , looks like a fine place eh ! must be a whole gang of snakes hangin there . and yet they expect us to believe the bullshit they spew about viruses , and its danger . im glad this came out in open , hope more people see the BS of it .

[@johnmills3163]

$7,000 per night stay. One of the most expensive places to vacation ... IN THE WORLD !

[@ladyluck5248]

Me too. I’ll never set my foot on a place like this in my life. It’s beautiful. One rule for thee and another for themselves. He hasn’t been turfed from the Party and is still an MPP and will get his big fat pension anyway.

[@joethesock4648]

@@tomasbleho1775 Yep. It's proof that our politicians are nothing but parasites. Remember that he flew their with his salary that is paid by your taxes and hard work!

[@1alibabe]

.........🌞......

[@dakg8034]

Lovely video and well narrated.

[@myvibes9032]

Beautiful !

[@chiangui24]

They could just build a bridge from St Maarten to St. Barts right?

[@humble_love4382]

Instead of going for luxury, go for helping those up who do not have 3 meals a day, minding the pandemic. I highly recommend this KZbin channel for everyone to learn more about the truth, and gain common sense to love other people more. A Voice In The Desert

[@ferstadthagen]

what are you doing?

[@thynktravel]

awesome content... I'm gonna do a report about st. Barts. watch out

[@CasolVillas]

Great video!

[@666dynomax]

why does the title and description say barts

[@omatheusdeferro]

2 minutes of plane? kkkkkkkk

[@AnyaForger154]

Anyone here from ptfs

[@Trolleyatthestation]

LOL meeeeee, I wanted to figure out if it was a real island and airport and it is :)

[@lynnwick3725]

Yes, doing the same thing. Very disappointed with Ontario’s ex Finance Minister during COVID

[@peggyt1243]

Yes a conservative must resign when he does wrong. A liberal, well they just say it was Harper's fault and move on to the next scandal.

[@thecitizenjoan]

What’s the best hotel in St Barth’s right now? Or restaurant?

[@fakiola9184]

J. Montrice Eden Rock hotel or private villas

[@peggyt1243]

All are 5 star and very expensive.

[@bargainwallart653]

I found koa tao island 30 years before 3 peoplw on the beach $1 per night in wood cabanas 😆

[@heatpete5106]

For the ultra wealthy ...

[@nadarama7711]

Le réchauffement climatique va entraîner des phénomènes météorologiques que nous connaissons depuis toujours mais d'une manière démultipliée à des puissances toujours plus élevées. IRMA en est une démonstration mais rien par rapport à ce qui nous attend dans les années à venir car le climat se réchaufe beaucoup plus vite que toutes les prévisions, l'effet boule de neige noys échappent totalement. Et pourtant ! Jamais autant de permis de construire n'aura été délivré sur l'ile de St Barth, on pourrait la surnommer l'ile aux permis de construire ! A tous les coins de rue, un panneau "permis de construire" L'état français a engagé aux frais des contribuables métropolitains beaucoup d'argent pour reconstruire cette ile qui sera de toutes façons à nouveau "soufflée" dans quelques temps... C'est juste ridicule ! D'autant plus ridicule que l'ile ne contribue pas à l'impôt, c'est un paradis fiscal pour milliardaires...et le pauvre travailleur métropolitains doit contribuer pour reconstruire une ile dont les maisons sont pour la plupart des villas secondaires à des dizaines de millions d'Euro ! Emmanuel Macron marche sur la tête, il est tant de changer de Président, son "quoiqu'il en coute" sans référendum aura ruiné notre pays.

[@marieconstant6452]

OUI NAP BESOIN COCOTIER POU BEL ENTRE LES MR NICHOLAS AP PASSER POU BY PAUVRE QUI PA GIN TERRE AGRICULTURE VISIT PAR ANNEE OUI LES MISERABLES

[@ralphbafaro8534]

It’s were pigs go🐅🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🦌🐖🐖🐖🐖

[@David-jj7dy]

You mean to tell me that every person got on the island from the beginning of time by way on of a four seated plane ? That's impossible. I was told that a 747 first landed there and ran off the runway into the ocean. No body was hurt , just all the women on board got all their hair doo s wet.

[@zolakhadijah7634]

this island is seriously overrated.