A B&B for sale in French Guiana serves a different market from the Caribbean islands: here, staying with a host suits business travellers as much as lovers of Amazonian nature. The Guiana Space Centre at Kourou brings technicians, engineers and families during launch campaigns, and public services, health and education missions add stays of several weeks. Leisure visitors come for the Îles du Salut and their former penal colony, the Kaw marshes, the Amazonian national park, nesting sea turtles on the beaches of the west and Rémire-Montjoly, and the carnival, which fills weekends from January to Ash Wednesday.
Properties suited to chambres d'hôtes include two-storey Creole houses with galleries, villas on Cayenne island set in tropical gardens, and riverside properties with carbets, the open timber shelters typical of the country. This page is for buyers of a running guest house, for eco-tourism projects looking for a place to take over, and for owners preparing a sale. Set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new listings.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in French Guiana listed on ma-propriete.fr.
Source: listings published on ma-propriete.fr on 25 September 2026 (asking prices, not sale prices).
The ma-propriete.fr DVF observatory does not extend to French Guiana, so there are no sale statistics to go on, and such sales are rare. Price starts with the land, where a secure title matters as much as location, then the building: design suited to an equatorial climate, termite protection, and mains connections or self-sufficiency in water and power. The business comes next: turnover, gross operating profit, the share of business guests, who are steadier than holidaymakers, and any corporate contracts. Get a local valuation before any offer.
Cayenne island, covering Cayenne, Rémire-Montjoly and Matoury, has most of the population, services and Félix-Éboué airport, with flights to Paris: a guest house there lives mainly on business trips and family visits, with demand spread over the year. Kourou and Sinnamary depend more on the launch calendar and on visitors to the Îles du Salut. The west, around Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Mana and Awala-Yalimapo, combines penal colony heritage, river peoples' culture and turtle beaches. To the east, the N2 leads to Cacao, a Hmong village known for its Sunday market, then to Saint-Georges on the Oyapock. River and forest areas appeal to nature lovers, but access, supplies and finding tradespeople make running a business harder.
Much of French Guiana belongs to the State, so have the notaire (the public official who handles property sales) check the chain of title, boundaries and that the seller is not simply occupying land without title. The hot, humid equatorial climate wears out timber, roofs and joinery, and termites call for regular treatment. The territory lies outside the hurricane belt, but heavy rains cause flooding and mudslides on some slopes, and shifting mudbanks reshape the coastline. Outside towns, private septic systems inspected by the SPANC service are the norm. Chambres d'hôtes rules are the same as in mainland France: no more than 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, in the owner's home, breakfast included, declared at the mairie (town hall). See our articles on opening chambres d'hôtes and their taxation (both in French).
Yes, but few: most are on Cayenne island and in Kourou, where custom is steadiest. In the west or along the rivers, projects are more often a family home with carbets. Browse all B&Bs for sale in France to compare formats.
Launch campaigns fill rooms in bursts, with long stays and well-funded guests; between campaigns, demand drops sharply. Test your figures with the B&B profitability simulator (in French), then have an accountant review them.
The seller provides the town hall declaration, accounts, reviews, mandatory surveys and septic inspection. The buyer signs a compromis de vente (preliminary contract), then the deed before the notaire, possibly by power of attorney. Our guest house buying guide (in French) explains the process.
To compare, see guest houses in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion. Selling in French Guiana? List your property.
