Barbados blades.

[Tunstall Fred]

I'm a bit biased as Mrs SEB and family are from St Lucia, prettiest Island in the whole of the Caribbean. If it's the first time out there I'd recommend a cruise as you get to see several islands and get a bit of a taste and feel of them without the outlay of a two week break. We're on a cruise in December this year in the Caribbean.

Thanks for that

 

[Eyeball]

She keeps changing her mind,today it's Barbados,yesterday it was St Lucia,day afore that it was a cruise,I'm saying nothing leaving her to pick,it's her birthday

Could you recommend anywhere?

Barbados
Most definately

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

That's 1 thing on my list,to go to Barbados to watch England play cricket more so in a test match,once the twinnys have flown the nest that'll be me and other half,

Did the test there in 1998, Ramprekash and Thorpe both got centuries, day 5 rained off and finished a draw, although it was looking good for an England win. Bumped into McCabe and his entourage, didn't have a clue who he was at the time, later found out who he was, new temporary chairman after McDonald had resigned. Have a photo and will put it on here if I can find it.

If you get chance, get yer sen off, ground's completely changed but a top place to watch cricket. You'll no doubt bump into all the cricketers on St Lawrence Gap where all the bars are.

 

[CarlingBlade]

I'm a bit biased as Mrs SEB and family are from St Lucia, prettiest Island in the whole of the Caribbean. If it's the first time out there I'd recommend a cruise as you get to see several islands and get a bit of a taste and feel of them without the outlay of a two week break. We're on a cruise in December this year in the Caribbean.

St Lucia is very nice, lush, green, very typically British Caribbean. Antigua is nice, a bit flat but beautiful Beaches, if you want to impress the missus I can highly recommend a premium beachfront room at Galley Bay, no kids, nice and quiet, I think it was 30 steps from my terrace to the sea . St Kitts is a bit shit, as is Tobago, bit of a dump, British Virgin Is. are nice (Tortola), very similar to St Lucia and a bit more unspoilt than the usual tourist spots. Barbados is good fun, I could highly recommend a week in Barbados and a week at Palm Is. (private island in the grenadines), not overly expensive and just a 40 min flight from Barbados.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

St Lucia is very nice, lush, green, very typically British Caribbean. Antigua is nice, a bit flat but beautiful Beaches, if you want to impress the missus I can highly recommend a premium beachfront room at Galley Bay, no kids, nice and quiet, I think it was 30 steps from my terrace to the sea . St Kitts is a bit shit, as is Tobago, bit of a dump, British Virgin Is. are nice (Tortola), very similar to St Lucia and a bit more unspoilt than the usual tourist spots. Barbados is good fun, I could highly recommend a week in Barbados and a week at Palm Is. (private island in the grenadines), not overly expensive and just a 40 min flight from Barbados.

Can't disagree with any of that. Martinique is nice, decent beaches. St Maarten is half Dutch, half French and the capital has a very Dutch feel to it, worth a visit just to go to Maho beach (Google it ) and the shopping is the best out there. Jamaica was a disappointment for me, if you want very quiet and small Grand Turk ticks those boxes. For a smaller more intimate version of St Lucia, try Dominica very lush, green and wonderful gardens with good beaches on the west coast.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

You'll be there before me as my twinnys are only 7....might have to bite the bullet and take them with us...unless a can get them off to boarding school.

Or sell them!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Haiti is very nice too apparently. But doesn't have the same tourist appeal.