I’m not disagreeing with you in principle, but just giving fair warning to anyone wanting to stay at Cheval Blanc in the near term. In December, the construction noise right at the beach at the hotel was very loud and quite annoying. I’m sure you get used to it after awhile, but the only time there was anything close to tranquility on that beach was from 12 to 1 during the lunch break.
There were ack-ack machines, circular saws buzzing and near constant hammering.
Maybe things will be improved by the time you get there, but maybe not (it’s already been ~16 months since the hurricane. Are things really going to get wrapped up in the next few weeks?). Anyhow, just trying to make you go in with eyes wide open.
That being said, the beach at Flamands is absolutely fabulous! A great, huge (for SBH) ocean beach. The beach at GcDS is fine to look at over lunch, but to me, it’s always seemed to be more of a pond with a bunch of boats moored there instead of an ocean front beach.