Lodging and Meals

LODGING AND MEALS
Due to the different currencies among the islands, our price guide (see below) is based in US dollars. At the islands special section you’ll find the hotel and restaurant lists.

If you write a letter to a hotel, be sure you got the correct address: name of the island, WI (West Indies). For further information and reservations (anticipation is important) contact directly the hotel or your travel agency.

LODGING

PRICES
Price estimations are based on a night double room.

$ = Less than 100 dollars
$$= Between 100 and 200 dollars
$$$= More than 200 dollars

To Choose a Restaurant
Our price guide (see below) is based in US dollar . At the special islands section you’ll find the restaurants list.

RESTAURANTS

PRICES GUIDE
Price estimations are based on a meal for one person, without drinks:

$ = Less than 20 dollars
$$= Between 20 and 30 dollars
$$$= More than 30 dollars.

NIGHTLIFE
Options go from a relaxed dinner at a restaurant’s balcony, with an ocean view, to a mad night at casino, passing through dancing halls, bars, discos, and music concerts. The bigger resorts offer all class of entertainment : direct music, dancing , dinners with shows of limbo dancers, “folklore nights” with traditional Caribbean music and dances, etc..

Visitors interested in the islander’s cultural life, should leave the hotel looking for “steel pan ”, calypso and reggae bands, and bars and clubs where natives go. You can find discos inside or outside hotels.

The intensity of nightlife varies from one island to another. Those receiving more tourists have a wider range of shows and entertainment every night.

On the other side nightlife at the quieter islands, is sometimes limited to a meal with recorded music, a walk by the seaside, though the atmosphere usually is livelier on weekends.

Some discos open only Friday and Saturday nights. At all the islands the high tourist season, approximately from December to April, coincides also with the highest point of night activity; during the rest of the year, night life is quieter.

Nightlife animation
The following islands have the fame of having a lively nightlife:

Casinos
Gamblers will find in the Little Antilles lots of casinos. Many of them have a wide offer of casinos, and even the quieter islands, have at least one of two.

If you want to go to one of them, remember you have to dress properly, because rules are very much rigid in this region than in others. Most of them demand the use of coat and tie.
The minimum age to be admitted is 18, though in Martinique and Guadeloupe it’s 21.
Some times you have to present an identity card with your picture to be admitted. Some have entrance fee.

Islands with Casinos