Saint Lucia Travel Guide
Travel guide to Saint Lucia , Saint Lucia with comprehensive information about events, shopping, and major Saint Lucia sporting events to help you enjoy your visit more.
Saint Lucia Overview
A paradise destination of sun kissed beaches, tiny coves, smiling faces, and clear blue seas, awaits visitors travelling to Saint Lucia. Rapidly becoming one of the most fashionable places to visit in the Caribbean, St Lucia has managed to remain relatively unspoilt, yet offers all the amenities and luxuries that you could want. With over 100 Km of beautiful coastline, St Lucia has a deserved reputation as a beach destination, and the Caribbean coast is where you can find the best of them with quiet calm seas. If you fancy a spot of surfing, and want livelier seas, then grab your board and head for the Atlantic Coast, where there are fantastic waves all year round.
Saint Lucia is one of the most popular holiday destinations in the Caribbean for British travellers and has deservedly won a reputation for being less commercial than some of its rivals, but there is plenty on offer for holidaymakers to the island.
You can benefit from cheap flights to Saint Lucia throughout the year, but in the Easter and Christmas peak seasons, hotels are busier, and you will have to pay more for your holiday, so the best bargains St Lucia holidays are in the low season.
Top Saint Lucia Attractions
The main attraction for any visitor to Saint Lucia is the stunning coastline, where picture perfect white sandy beaches are fringed with palm trees and look out over the glittering Caribbean sea.
Sights worth checking out if you can tear yourself away from the beach include the Soufriere sulphur springs in the south of the island, and the Frigate Island Nature reserve in the east, where one of the world's largest colonies of these pouch necked birds can be seen.
Shopping in Saint Lucia
Castries is a bustling harbour town with restaurants, bars and plenty of shops. Around the south east of the town there is a large market where you can pick up some local handicrafts and souvenirs. Prices on Castries market are not generally fixed, so you can barter with the stallholders to get a better deal. The most popular souvenirs of Saint Lucia include beautifully decorated shells, and paintings - particularly of the eastern coastline.
There are a few designer outlets in the more upmarket hotels that sell jewellery and clothes, but on the whole, these do tend to be slightly more expensive than the UK.
Saint Lucia Sporting Events
You are never far from the sea in Saint Lucia, and most of the activities available on the island take advantage of the calm warm Caribbean waters. Grown-ups can choose from sailing, wind surfing, and even SCUBA diving off the shores, while children will love snorkelling in the shallow water close to the beach.
There are a few small golf courses attached to the bigger hotels where you can play a round of golf, and the lush jungle interior of the island is perfect for hiking and exploring.
