Friday, May 19, 2006
5/2006: St. Lucia: 'where to stay?'
Most of the hotels offer a ‘meal plan’ which will cover the gamut from room only to all inclusive. If I were to advise my friends, I'd say carefully check the location of your hotel and the type of meal plan it offers. I know lots of people who love to spend the majority of their holiday lying on a beach and don’t want to move far from the hotel, an all-inclusive is a good bet for that. Most of the larger hotels are in isolated locations and won’t have any facilities such as restaurants, bars etc - nearby. If you are staying in an isolated hotel without transport (and even with transport, driving at night can be hazardous as streetlights are rare – and taxis are expensive) and you are on room only, or bed and breakfast, then you are at the mercy of the hotel restaurant prices – which can be hugely inflated, particularly in a hotel which has an all-inclusive option.
Mixing with the locals is more to my taste, and I like to try a variety of restaurants and bars, so for people like me, I'd say look for a hotel which offers B&B which is in one of the villages or towns (Rodney Bay in St Lucia, Nelson’s harbour or English harbour in Antigua).
Most of the hotels offer a ‘meal plan’ which will cover the gamut from room only to all inclusive. If I were to advise my friends, I'd say carefully check the location of your hotel and the type of meal plan it offers. I know lots of people who love to spend the majority of their holiday lying on a beach and don’t want to move far from the hotel, an all-inclusive is a good bet for that. Most of the larger hotels are in isolated locations and won’t have any facilities such as restaurants, bars etc - nearby. If you are staying in an isolated hotel without transport (and even with transport, driving at night can be hazardous as streetlights are rare – and taxis are expensive) and you are on room only, or bed and breakfast, then you are at the mercy of the hotel restaurant prices – which can be hugely inflated, particularly in a hotel which has an all-inclusive option.Mixing with the locals is more to my taste, and I like to try a variety of restaurants and bars, so for people like me, I'd say look for a hotel which offers B&B which is in one of the villages or towns (Rodney Bay in St Lucia, Nelson’s harbour or English harbour in Antigua).
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 5:14 pm 
