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Generally Anguilla is extremely low key (there’s not much action beyond the beach bars, unlike St Barts, for example), and this despite a sophisticated clientele with money to spend. Anguilla is pretty expensive, certainly it’s pretty hard to have an inexpensive trip there. People come for the island’s smart hotels and particularly the stylish villas and ‘super-villas’. The island’s restaurants are also excellent and have good interest (chefs doing interesting things) and depth.

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  • Anguilla

    Anguilla

    Anguilla has the finest sea and sand in the islands – I’d say the ‘Caribbean’s best beaches’, but the lack of palms undermines the archetype.  But hey, the water is an unbelievable turquoise and the sand so sumptuous that just walking becomes aerobic exercise...

  • a remote sandbar with palms set in shallow jade sea

    Bahamas

    Set in the bluest sea of all lie 30 or so main coral islands and hundreds of cays and sandbars, some highly developed with casinos and high-rises, quite American in feel, others offering a dozy, laid-back life. Superb beaches, watersports and sailing

  • a beach on the west coast of Barbados back by casuarina tree

    Barbados

    A Caribbean stalwart, a relatively small island but with excellent beaches and gracious islanders. Barbados’ western and southern coastlines are highly developed - with some of the Caribbean’s most famous hotels and private villas, excellent restaurants and activities aplenty

  • a couple walking on a beach with palms

    Dominican Republic

    Once known for the Caribbean’s cheapest all-inclusive holidays, the Dominican Republic now offers independent travellers cool stays across the price range. A large island with a strong Latin culture, great to explore

  • colourful boats at dock in St George's Grenada

    Grenada

    An attractive and reliably charming mid-size island, Grenada is easy to fall in love with. It is green and mountainous, and while not as geographically dramatic as other Windwards it is beautiful (particularly its capital, St Georges), immensely fertile and its people extremely friendly.

  • yachts at anchor, Basse Terre in the background

    Guadeloupe

    French Guadeloupe, mid-way down the eastern Caribbean chain, has both sides of the Caribbean, luxuriant, volcanic Basse-Terre and rolling, coral-Grande-Terre, fringed with white-sand beaches, and offshore islands. Strong Creole culture in food and character

  • drummers on a colourful rasta background in Jamaica

    Jamaica

    A large and exceptionally beautiful island in the western Caribbean, south of Florida and Cuba, with a lively population of over 2 million, giving it a strong local life and culture. A full range of accommodation and activity and the coolest Caribbean vibe.

  • a road running straight into the distance with Nevis Peak in the background

    Nevis

    Nevis, a tiny 6 miles by 8, has unutterable, almost ineffable charm:, arising from a combination of the islanders, who go more placidly than other West Indians, the traditional wood and stone buildings, which create a calm and gracious air, and vertiginous greenery.

  • clapboard cottage with a red tin roof

    Saba

    Tiny Saba is a volcanic peak just two and a half miles by three in the north-eastern Caribbean. Lots is unexpected here: gracious Antillean islanders that speak mainly English, an island that is impossibly steep and excellent scuba diving.

  • a view of the moored yachts from high above Gustavia harbour in St Barts

    St Barts

    St Barts is unlike any other Caribbean island - it feels more metropolitan French than French Caribbean. If it doesn’t have the Caribbean’s easy-going character and slow charm, nor even many islanders of colour., it is stylish, sophisticated and well… sexy

  • A traditional clapboard house in St Lucia

    St Lucia

    Famed for her physical beauty – like Helen of Troy, she moved whole armies – St Lucia has built a reliable reputation as the Caribbean’s most romantic destination. And it’s true, with dramtic scenery and heart-stoppingly pretty bays and beaches…

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