Southern Caribbean Cruise

nickelnee1000 · Post by **nickelnee1000** » August 23, 2004 1:12 pm

For my honeymoon, I'm going on a Southern Caribbean cruise to St. Thomas, St. Marteen, St. John's, Barbados, and St. Lucia. We will only ber in each place for a day. Any recommendations on what place to see or visit if there for only a day?

phaninatl · Post by **phaninatl** » August 24, 2004 10:57 am

On St Martin, have a taxi take you out to Orient Beach on the French side.
Enjoy the views, the sand, the people, the water, the sun. Then have lunch
at a seaside resturant named Kakao.

Trust me on this one you won't be disapointed.

ps the beach is clothing optional

son of a beach · Post by **son of a beach** » August 24, 2004 7:32 pm

Megan's Bay in St. Thomas is awesome.
And the cab (or better yet doorless busride) there was quite an experience.

MICHIPHIN · Post by **MICHIPHIN** » August 27, 2004 9:00 pm

son of a beach wrote:Megan's Bay in St. Thomas is awesome.
And the cab (or better yet doorless busride) there was quite an experience.

I second that..

DeactiveCarib · Post by **DeactiveCarib** » August 28, 2004 2:51 pm

I have been to almost all of those places, some of them multiple times

Saint Thomas - Maegan's Bay is my favorite beach there, but I would reccomend taking an excursion to Trunk Bay in Saint John, USVI. Its the most beautiful and scenic beach I have ever been to.

Saint Martin - Stop off at the Guavaberry store on the dutch side, its relitively near the docks in phillipsburg. Get guavaberry liqour and BBQ sauce. Try all the samples you want. Go to Last Mango In Paradise in Phillipsburg, get some Caribbean Soul T-Shirts and Buffett rares. Go to orient beach.

By saint John's, im assuming you are reffering to Antigua? never been there.

Saint Lucia - we took a tour by ourselves with a taxi driver. Everything was safe with this guy, but the island itself can be dangerous so be careful if you do what we did, and make sure you get a tourguide that doesn't look like he's gonna be trouble. If you want you can take an excursion, but it will cost you a lot more. Check out the Pitons, see the waterfalls and the volcano. This is in my opinion the most beautiful island in the caribbean, but possibly the most poverty-stricken and dirtiest.

Barbados - we went here, but it was christmas day so nothing was open. We just went to some beach and it wasn't anything spectacular, but I can't really reccomend anything since everything was closed.

Go to the messageboards at cruisemates.com for more

What ship are you going on?

sailingagain · Post by **sailingagain** » August 28, 2004 3:19 pm

MICHIPHIN wrote:
son of a beach wrote:Megan's Bay in St. Thomas is awesome.
And the cab (or better yet doorless busride) there was quite an experience.

I second that..

I third that. Megan's Bay is stunning.

HockeyParrotHead · Post by **HockeyParrotHead** » August 29, 2004 8:59 am

MICHIPHIN wrote:
son of a beach wrote:Megan's Bay in St. Thomas is awesome.
And the cab (or better yet doorless busride) there was quite an experience.

I second that..

Take the "Wild Thing" from the docks, all the way around the island to Magens Bay, enjoy the beach, the bar, the fun, the sun, then back on the boat and continue around back to the docks. Very fast boat, very cool crew, tons of fun, and you see the entire island.

chalksoperations · Post by **chalksoperations** » August 29, 2004 2:33 pm

Not sure when you're going, but summertime in Barbados is Carnival time. Nothing beats the Crop Over Carnival in Barbados, and the Carnival Antigua is pretty hot also. Crop Over = 5 weeks of party, a great time. Crop Over this year has the coolest Moko Jumbies I think I've ever seen. Carnival Antigua this year had this one costume that was a huge sailing ship, I'm guessing about 20 ft tall.
Again, not sure what time frame you are going for...is it this fall, winter???

SuperTrooper · Post by **SuperTrooper** » August 30, 2004 7:59 am

HockeyParrotHead wrote:
MICHIPHIN wrote:
son of a beach wrote:Megan's Bay in St. Thomas is awesome.
And the cab (or better yet doorless busride) there was quite an experience.

I second that..
Take the "Wild Thing" from the docks, all the way around the island to Magens Bay, enjoy the beach, the bar, the fun, the sun, then back on the boat and continue around back to the docks. Very fast boat, very cool crew, tons of fun, and you see the entire island.

I'll second that! What a great time we had! Like the crew says: "Nobody knows you, so nobody cares!" Great ride. Great beach!

nickelnee1000 · Post by **nickelnee1000** » August 31, 2004 10:38 am

We're heading down in October.

SuperTrooper · Post by **SuperTrooper** » August 31, 2004 11:47 am

phaninatl wrote:On St Martin, have a taxi take you out to Orient Beach on the French side.
Enjoy the views, the sand, the people, the water, the sun. Then have lunch
at a seaside resturant named Kakao.

Trust me on this one you won't be disapointed.

ps the beach is clothing optional

We took the shore excursion to Orient Beach. Nice beach with waves to jump around in. Kakao is a nice little place to eat.

If October is like April then most of the naked people (on the public beach)will be middle aged gay men. You will find better couples in the resort area at the end of the beach.

I'm sure your travel agent has advised you that you are going in the middle of hurricane season, and itineraries are subject to change for safety reasons.

nickelnee1000 · Post by **nickelnee1000** » August 31, 2004 4:52 pm

As Jimmy would say, "We're Trying to Reason With the Hurricane Season" We're hoping the one will be over a little early this year.