Four islands on the voyage, six settings between them, each built around the yacht’s own hours in that port on that date.
22 to 27 November 2026
4 islands
Sunset 17:32 to 17:38
The window
The moment is Sugar Beach, and the other three islands are the days around it.
An Antigua round trip, 19 to 29 November, calling at seven ports on the way. Saint Lucia on 25 November is the call that holds the moment, on the sand between the Pitons at 17:20. The other three are days ashore, each a single day with its own hours, and the sun sets within six minutes of the same hour on all of them, so what separates them is not the light but the hour the yacht wants you back.
The Grenadines
Sunday 22 November · ashore 08:00 to 17:00
Jamesby, inside Horseshoe Reef. Uninhabited, and the one call that closes before sunset, so the whole day on the cay runs in full afternoon light.
View →
Grenada
Monday 23 November · ashore 08:00 to 23:00
Mount Qua Qua on the ridge, the Seven Sisters falls in the rainforest, or Grand Anse on the west coast. Height, enclosure or open water.
Three options →
Saint Lucia
Wednesday 25 November · ashore 08:00 to 23:59
Sugar Beach, and the moment itself. The longest window ashore of the voyage, and the two peaks in every frame.
View →
St Barth
Friday 27 November · ashore 08:00 to 23:59
Anse de Colombier at sunset. No road reaches it, and it empties once the day boats leave.
Our pick there →
How this works
Tell us which one, and we build the whole day around it.
You choose the setting
The options below are different in kind, not in quality. The decision is about her, not about the island.
We close the open costs
This is a shortlist document, not a quote. Everything marked TBD is with the properties and the operators now, and we bring back firm figures on whichever settings you want to take further.
We hold the day
Boat, guide, photographer, dinner and the moment itself, all under one booking, all through us.
Saint Lucia, the longest day ashore
Wednesday 25 November 2026 · Rodney Bay 08:00 to 15:00, Marigot Bay 17:00 to 23:59 · Sunset 17:32
Island 03 · Saint Lucia
The only island that gives you the whole day and the whole evening.
The yacht calls twice on the same day, which happens nowhere else on the itinerary. She anchors off Rodney Bay from eight in the morning, moves south to Marigot Bay at five, and sails at midnight for Martinique. Sixteen hours ashore, and sunset at 17:32. The setting is the same in both directions below, and what separates them is whether a room is taken with it.
Direction 01
Dunia first choice
Sugar Beach, with a room · two options
Anse des Pitons · Soufrière
From the yacht · About 50 min by fast charter from Rodney Bay
The whole day inside the resort with a room taken for the 25th — the beachfront bungalow at US$4,358.80, or a Luxury Cottage on the hillside at US$1,666.63. The room is what makes the treatment possible in private and the dinner possible on the sand, and it is what the property asks for before it will hold anything at all.
The day
08:50Ashore by private charter
09:30Guided hike, Tet Paul
11:00Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat
12:45Lunch at Bonte
14:30Couples massage in the room, 50 minutes
17:20Proposal, South Beach, unstaged
19:00Private dinner on the beach
22:00Back aboard at Marigot Bay
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Direction 02
Sugar Beach, without a room
Anse des Pitons · Soufrière
From the yacht · About 50 min by fast charter from Rodney Bay
The same beach and the same hour, run without taking a room. The treatment moves up to the Rainforest Spa, the proposal on South Beach is left unstaged, and dinner goes to whichever of the restaurants the property puts closest to the water.
The day
08:50Ashore by private charter
09:30Guided hike, Tet Paul
11:00Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat
12:45Lunch at Bonte
14:30Couples massage, Rainforest Spa, 50 minutes
17:20Proposal, South Beach, unstaged
19:00Dinner, the table closest to the water
22:00Back aboard at Marigot Bay
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The day, piece by piece
The morning holds the hike and the chocolate both. Tet Paul is an hour and the Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat is an hour, and the two estates sit a short drive apart above Soufriere — so it is one trip ashore, back for lunch at Bonte by a quarter to one. The afternoon is a fifty minute massage, which leaves an hour clear before the light. The four hour Piton hike is the only thing that will not fit alongside all of it — take that and the chocolate comes off the day.
What each piece of the day actually is, in the order it happens. The same in both directions except the last two: the massage moves from the canopy into the bungalow, and the table on the sand only exists if the room does.
The morning · 09:30, one hour
Tet Paul Nature Trail
The resort's own recommendation for the walk, and the reason is that it asks almost nothing of you. Twenty minutes from Soufrière, a graded path rather than a climb, and it opens onto both Pitons standing out of the water with the sea between them. On a clear day Martinique is visible to the north and St Vincent to the south. One hour guided, US$240 for the two of you, and a short drive from the cacao estate that follows it. The resort will also run a four hour Piton hike from eight at US$360, which is the serious version of the same morning and takes the chocolate out of it.
US$240 for twoOne hour, guidedPiton hike, four hours · US$360Both Pitons in view
The morning · 11:00 · one hour
Bean to Bar, at the estate
Project Chocolat is Hotel Chocolat's own working cacao estate at Rabot, a short drive above Soufriere on the same side of town as Tet Paul — which is why the two sit together in one morning ashore. The Bean to Bar is the hour: fresh cacao pulp tasted straight from the pod, the history of the estate, then tempering and moulding a bar of their own to take away, and Rabot Estate chocolate to taste at the end. US$150 for the two of you. If the morning should be fuller, their Tree to Bar runs two to three hours and adds a walk through the cacao groves, grafting a tree, and a market lunch on the estate.
US$150 for twoOne hourRabot Estate, above SoufriereTree to Bar, 2 to 3 hours
The afternoon · 14:30 · fifty minutes
Rainforest Spa, or in-room service
A fifty minute couples massage, side by side, at US$456 for the two of you. The only thing the two directions change is the room it happens in. In Direction 02 it is the spa itself: treehouse rooms on stilts in the canopy under Petit Piton, open on the forest side. In Direction 01 the therapists come down to the bungalow, which is the reason that room category matters — two tables behind your own door, on the sand, with nothing to walk back from afterwards. That carries a US$144 in-room fee. Longer rituals, 110 to 180 minutes, are behind the options.
50 min · US$456In the room · plus US$144Longer rituals to 180 minSpa or in the bungalow
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The moment · 17:20, at sea level
South Beach, directly between the Pitons
Anse des Pitons is the only stretch of sand on the island with both mountains standing out of the water on either side of it, and South Beach is the quiet end of that stretch. At 17:20 the sun is still above the horizon and the light runs up the bay from the west, so the two peaks turn from green to black while the water in front of you is still lit. You walk down onto the sand and the place does the work on its own. Sunset is 17:32 and the light holds a little past it. The resort plans it and holds the quiet end of the beach for the hour at US$600, and dresses nothing. Sugar Point, the deck out over the water, is US$500; the Sunset Deck on the ridge is US$800. All three are behind the options on this card.
US$600 planned and heldBoth Pitons in frameSea levelSunset 17:32Nothing dressed
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Direction 01 only · after the moment
The table on the sand
In Direction 01 the evening does not move indoors. The property lays a table on the beach once the light has gone, torches and lanterns set around it, the water a few metres away and nobody else on that stretch of sand. This is the part of the evening the room buys outright: without the bungalow, dinner becomes a seating in one of the restaurants instead, with the table nearest the water if they can hold it. Two on the US$175 menu plus the beachfront setup comes to US$618 all in — US$420 for the dinner and US$198 for the beach it is served on.
US$618 for twoUS$420 menu · US$198 setupDirection 01 only
The treatment, and the room it happens in
Rainforest Spa or the bungalow · Wednesday 25 November 2026 · 14:30
Saint Lucia · The Rainforest Spa
One massage the resort has costed, and three longer rituals behind it.
The Rainforest Spa sits above the resort at the foot of Petit Piton, and its treatment rooms are treehouses on stilts with a stream running below them, open on the forest side. Couples rooms take two tables. That is Direction 02. In Direction 01 the therapists come down to the bungalow instead and set up behind your own door, on the sand — which is the single clearest thing the room actually buys, because it means the afternoon ends where the evening starts rather than halfway up a hill. The fifty minute massage below is quoted for the 25th; the three longer rituals are the spa's own menu.
Either room works, and the resort has priced the difference. Taken at the spa the fifty minutes is US$456. Brought down to the bungalow it is US$600 — the same massage plus a US$144 in-room fee. That is the clearest single thing the room buys: the afternoon ends where the evening starts.
The three rituals · for two · 25 November 2026
In order of what we would put forward rather than by price, each figure for the two of you. Duration matters as much as cost here: the moment is at 17:20 and the treatment has to be finished and dressed before it.
Dunia recommended · the one the resort has costed
Couples Massage
Side by side on two tables with the spa's own couples oil — orange, patchouli and ylang-ylang. No scrub and no facial, which is the point: at fifty minutes it leaves the afternoon alone. This is the line the resort has costed for the 25th, and the one the day above is built on. Taken in the bungalow rather than at the spa it carries a US$144 in-room fee · Quoted for the 25th
50 minutes
US$456For two, tax and service in · US$600 in the room
The long version of the same afternoon
Couples Ultimate Rainforest Experience
A body scrub, then a cocoa butter massage, then a Glow Booster facial, taken together on two tables in the same room. The spa's own words for it are "enjoy a moment together", and it runs either 140 or 170 minutes. This is the one worth knowing about: we asked the resort whether a chocolate massage and a coffee scrub could be built into a sequence for two, and this treatment already is that sequence — it did not need assembling. At 140 minutes it starts after lunch and still leaves half an hour to change before the light, but it takes the chocolate out of the morning · Menu rate
140 minutes
US$720For the two of you · about US$871 all in · 170 minutes US$860
Rainforest Renewal
The spa's signature ritual and the longest of the three. A Tata Harper body peel to begin — gentle but strong enough to bring the skin up — then a massage, then a facial built to resurface and lift. Three hours is the thing to watch rather than the price: at 180 minutes it has to be on the table by 13:45, which means lunch moves earlier and the morning gives up either the hike or the chocolate. Quoted for two on the menu
180 minutes
US$980For the two of you · US$490 each · about US$1,186 all in
Coconut Bliss
The short one, and the gentlest. A natural coconut and spice scrub, then a coconut milk healing massage — no facial, no peel, nothing that needs recovering from. At 110 minutes it is the one long ritual the day can still hold alongside the whole morning. It is also the only one the menu prices per person rather than for two, so US$650 is our arithmetic on their US$325. Per person on the menu
110 minutes
US$650For two · US$325 each · about US$787 all in
The fifty minute massage is quoted for the 25th with tax and service included. The three longer rituals are the spa's 2026 menu rates and would be quoted on booking; each is long enough to need the afternoon built around it rather than into it.
Dunia verdict
Take the fifty minutes. It is quoted, it is side by side, and it is the only version that leaves the hike, the chocolate and the hour before the light all standing. The long rituals are there if the afternoon should be the treatment rather than the day.
The moment · 17:20 · Saint Lucia
Three places to stand, and what it costs to have one of them to yourselves.
The resort has come back with names and prices for the places it will hold at 17:20. This is the one part of the day that is identical in both directions, and the fee is for privacy rather than for anything set up: nothing is dressed in either direction. Sugar Point and the Sunset Deck are the two the resort will close entirely; South Beach is open sand, so the fee buys the stretch of it nearest the pier rather than the beach as a whole. All three are optional — Anse des Pitons is public shoreline under Saint Lucian law and you can simply walk down onto it. Sunset is 17:32 and the light holds a little past it, which is the only reason the three differ at all: two of them watch it leave the peaks, and one of them holds the sun itself.
Sugar Point · private
US$500 · the deck over the water
A thatched pergola at the end of a timber deck that runs off the sand, water on three sides of you and both Pitons standing behind. It is at sea level, it is where the tender comes in, and it is the most contained of the three — nobody walks past it. The cheapest of the three to close, and the one we would ask for first.
US$500Closed entirelySea levelWater on three sides
South Beach · the open sand
US$600 · the sand between the mountains
The stretch of beach itself, which is what the whole island is photographed for: white sand, the water a few paces off, and the two peaks rising on either side. Anse des Pitons is public shoreline, so this fee is not permission to be there — it is the resort holding the quiet end of its own section for the hour, with the loungers cleared.
US$600Both PitonsPublic shorelineLoungers cleared
Sunset Deck · private
US$800 · the one that holds the sun
A paved deck on the ridge above the resort, away from the rooms and the beach, looking west down the bay with Petit Piton framed and nothing in front of it. It is the only one of the three that holds the sun going into the water at 17:32 rather than watching the light leave the peaks. The resort's own photograph shows it laid with candles and petals; that is the version we are not taking.
US$800Holds the sunsetOn the ridgePetit Piton framed
If you ever do want it dressed, this is the range. The resort sent its enhancements list with the venues: a rose bouquet from US$160, an LED sign at US$150, the lit Marry Me letters at US$550, cold sparklers at US$250 a pair, a flower arch at US$2,200 and a full candle and floral install at US$3,150. None of it is in either direction's figures and none of it is booked. It is here so the number is known rather than asked for on the day.
Direction 01 · Saint Lucia
The two mountains everyone pictures, and you standing on the sand between them.
Anse des Pitons is the beach that sits directly between the two peaks, white sand imported onto a volcanic shore, with Gros Piton and Petit Piton rising out of the water on either side. Nothing else on the island frames both mountains at once from sea level.
From the yacht · About 50 min by fast charter from Rodney Bay
White sand imported onto a volcanic shore, sitting directly between Gros Piton and Petit Piton, with both peaks rising out of the water on either side. Nothing else on the island frames the two mountains at once from sea level. The property runs back from the beach into the trees, and the Rainforest Spa sits above it in the canopy.
Three places on the property, and the resort has now priced each one.Sugar Point, US$500, is the pergola on the deck running off the sand at the quiet end of the beach — water on three sides, both Pitons behind, at sea level, and the one place nobody walks past. South Beach, US$600, is the open sand itself with the two peaks on either side. The Sunset Deck, US$800, sits on the ridge above the resort looking west down the bay, and is the only one that holds the sun going into the water at 17:32. All three are on the Saint Lucia page, behind See options on the moment card. The fee closes the place for the hour; it dresses nothing, in either direction.
The day
08:50Ashore by private charter
09:30Guided hike, Tet Paul
11:00Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat, one hour
12:45Lunch at Bonte
14:30Couples massage in the room, 50 minutes
17:20Proposal, South Beach, unstaged
19:00Private dinner on the beach
22:00Back aboard at Marigot Bay
Day programme to quote
Dunia verdict
The room is what turns a day pass into a private day: the treatment happens behind your own door and dinner happens on the sand rather than in a dining room.
The room
Sugar Beach holds its beach, its spa and its restaurants for people staying there, so the day runs on a room taken for 25 November. You will not sleep in it. The resort holds four nights as a minimum in this period and has agreed to release the single night of the 25th for us. Two categories are worth putting in front of you, and they are a long way apart on price: the Luxury Beachfront Bungalow at US$4,358.80, which the resort calls the closest of all to the water, and the Luxury Cottage at US$1,666.63, which is the same access from up on the hillside. Tap any image to see either in full.
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Dunia recommended
Luxury Beachfront Bungalow
A bungalow standing directly on the sand between the two Pitons, its terrace opening onto the beach and the water a few paces beyond it. Since the night is not being slept in, what matters is that it sits on the beach itself: it is where you change, rest between the hike and the spa, and wait out the hour before the light goes.
PositionOn the sand, beachfront
ViewPetit Piton across the bay
Resident accessQualifies
US$4,358.80
One night, 25 November · US$3,640 plus US$718.80 tax and fees
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The lower figure · quoted for the 25th
Luxury Cottage
550 square feet on the hillside above the beach rather than on it: a white timber cottage under a vaulted ceiling, a king four-poster, and a bathroom whose walk-in shower opens onto the greenery. What makes it worth showing is the deck — a terrace with loungers and a plunge pool set into it, with the rainforest, the Pitons and the sea in the view. It is the room the resort has available for the single night of the 25th at a little over a third of the bungalow. What you give up is the sand: the resort is clear that the beachfront bungalow is the accommodation closest to the water, so from up here the beach is a shuttle ride rather than a step off the terrace.
PositionOn the hillside
ViewRainforest, the Pitons and the sea
Resident accessQualifies
US$1,666.63
One night, 25 November · US$1,339 plus US$327.63 taxes and fees
Both are quoted for the night of the 25th, so this is a choice about position. The resort has been plain about it: the beachfront bungalow is the accommodation closest to the water, and the cottage sits on the hillside. That matters more than the figure does here — the private dinner on the sand and the massage behind your own door are both easier to hold from a room standing on the beach.
Line items · Sugar Beach · 25 November 2026
Costed by the resort for the 25th, everything inclusive of tax and service. The day lands at about US$7,277 with the beachfront bungalow, or about US$4,585 with the Luxury Cottage — the two room lines are alternatives, not additions. The last two lines are optional and sit outside those figures.
Transfers, in by boat and out by road
The speedboat in from Rodney Bay in the morning, and a car to Marigot Bay at ten to put them back aboard · Quoted
Transfers
US$860US$660 by boat · US$200 by car
Luxury Beachfront Bungalow, 25 November
One night on the sand between the Pitons, released from the four night minimum for us. Not slept in; it is where the day changes and rests. It is also what the private dinner on the sand depends on · Quoted for the 25th
The room
US$4,358.80US$3,640 plus US$718.80 tax and fees
Luxury Cottage, 25 November · instead of the bungalow
The same night and the same access, from a cottage on the hillside rather than a bungalow on the sand. It saves US$2,692 and brings the day to about US$4,585 · Quoted for the 25th
The room, or
US$1,666.63US$1,339 plus US$327.63 taxes and fees · instead of the bungalow above
Guided hike, Tet Paul
One hour, guided, both Pitons in view and Martinique to the north on a clear day, and a short drive from the cacao estate that follows it. The resort will also run a four hour Piton hike from eight at US$360 for two, which is the one thing that will not fit alongside the chocolate · Quoted
The hike
US$240One hour, for two · a four hour Piton hike is US$360
Couples massage in the room, 50 minutes
Side by side in the bungalow rather than up at the spa, which is the reason the room category matters. Taken at the spa instead there is no in-room fee and it is US$456. Longer rituals, 110 to 180 minutes, are behind See options on the treatment card · Quoted
The treatment
US$600US$456 for the massage plus the US$144 in-room fee
Unstaged proposal, South Beach at 17:20
The resort plans and holds the quiet end of South Beach for the hour. Nothing is dressed and nothing is set up — the two of you walk down onto the sand between the Pitons as the light goes · Quoted
The moment
US$600Planning and the setting held · nothing dressed
Private dinner on the beach
A table laid privately on the sand after the moment. Two on the US$175 menu, plus the beachfront setup · Quoted
Dinner
US$618Menu US$420 for two plus the US$198 setup
Photographer, one hour
One hour with the resort's photographer, covering the moment and the hour around it. We can also bring in a photographer of our own if you would rather choose the eye · Your call
Optional
US$500The resort's own · or sourced separately
Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat
One hour at the Rabot cacao estate above Soufriere, in the same trip ashore as Tet Paul: pulp from the pod, then a bar of their own tempered and moulded to take away. Their Tree to Bar is the two to three hour version with a market lunch, and the Cocoa Mill on the property is 90 minutes with Champagne at US$250 a head · Published rate
Optional
US$150One hour, for two
Nothing about the moment is dressed or decorated in either direction. What is left to choose is where the two of you stand at 17:20 — the sand at South Beach, or one of the two decks above it.
What this includes
SettingThe moment itself
DiningLunch at Bonte, dinner on the sand US$618
Wellness50 minutes in the room, US$600
ActivityTet Paul US$240, cocoa US$150
TransfersBoat in, car out, US$860
PhotographyOne hour, US$500 if you want it
What it does not
GratuitiesAt discretion
WeatherPool cabana instead, US$100 not US$165
InsuranceNot included
Direction 02 · Saint Lucia
The same beach and the same hour, taken without a room.
Everything that happens outside a bedroom door is identical to Direction 01: the same charter in from Rodney Bay, the same walk at Tet Paul, the same hour at the cocoa estate, and the same stretch of sand between Gros Piton and Petit Piton at 17:20. Three things change. The treatment moves up to the Rainforest Spa in the canopy rather than happening behind your own door. The proposal is taken unstaged, the beach as it is. And dinner becomes a table in one of the restaurants rather than a table laid on the sand.
This is the one direction still to be agreed. Sugar Beach holds its beach, its spa and its restaurants for guests staying with it, which is why Direction 01 exists. Every figure below is quoted; what is open is whether the resort will sell the day to a party not staying the night. We are asking.
The day
08:50Ashore by private charter
09:30Guided hike, Tet Paul
11:00Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat, one hour
12:45Lunch at Bonte
14:30Couples massage, Rainforest Spa, 50 minutes
17:20Proposal, South Beach, unstaged
19:00Dinner, the table closest to the water
22:00Back aboard at Marigot Bay
Line items · Direction 02 · 25 November 2026
The same costed lines without the room: about US$2,156 before dinner, which is under a third of Direction 01. Dinner is ordered from a menu on the night, so it stays open by nature rather than by omission.
Transfers, in by boat and out by road
The speedboat in from Rodney Bay in the morning, and a car to Marigot Bay at ten to put them back aboard · Quoted
Transfers
US$860US$660 by boat · US$200 by car
Guided hike, Tet Paul
One hour, guided, both Pitons in view, and a short drive from the cacao estate that follows it. The four hour Piton hike is US$360 for two and is the one thing that will not fit alongside the chocolate · Quoted
The hike
US$240One hour, for two · a four hour Piton hike is US$360
Couples massage, Rainforest Spa, 50 minutes
Side by side in the canopy under Petit Piton. Without a room the spa is where this happens. Longer rituals are behind See options on the treatment card · Quoted
The treatment
US$456For two · treehouse rooms in the canopy
Unstaged proposal, South Beach at 17:20
The resort plans and holds the quiet end of South Beach for the hour. Nothing is dressed · Quoted
The moment
US$600Planning and the setting held · nothing dressed
Photographer, one hour
One hour with the resort's photographer, or a photographer of our own if you would rather choose the eye · Your call
Optional
US$500The resort's own · or sourced separately
Bean to Bar at Project Chocolat
One hour at the Rabot cacao estate above Soufriere, in the same trip ashore as Tet Paul. The Cocoa Mill on the property is the ninety minute alternative at US$250 a head · Published rate
Optional
US$150One hour, for two
Dinner, the restaurant they recommend
Their own recommendation of the three, with the table closest to the water if it can be held. Bayside is the one we would ask for first · On the night
Dinner
A la carteOrdered on the night · table to hold
What this includes
TransfersBoat in, car out, US$860
ActivityTet Paul US$240, cocoa US$150
Wellness50 minutes for two, US$456
SettingSouth Beach at 17:20, unstaged
DiningLunch at Bonte, dinner in a restaurant
PhotographyOne hour, US$500 if you want it
What it does not
The roomNo bungalow, and no in-room treatment
StagingNothing dressed on the beach
Private dinnerNo table on the sand
AccessNot yet agreed by the property
St Barth, the beach no road reaches
Gustavia · Friday 27 November 2026 · Ashore 08:00 to 23:59 · Sunset 17:33
Island 04 · St Barth
You get the beach to yourselves, and you get it at sunset.
The most secluded beach on the island, and the only one with no road to it at all. You arrive by boat, or on foot down the coastal path from Anse des Flamands, about an hour and a quarter each way. It sits inside the St Barths marine reserve, faces west into open water, and empties completely once the day boats leave in the afternoon. This is the one we would recommend on this island.
We have someone on the ground. We have found a local organiser who can set and run the evening at Colombier. Her fee is still being quoted, and it covers her work only, not the boat, the setup or anything consumed. It is the same shape as the arrangement at Sugar Beach: a person who makes it happen, priced separately from the day itself.
The one option
Anse de Colombier
Gustavia · St Barths marine reserve
From the yacht · About 20 min by tender from Gustavia, or 1h15 on the coastal path
The most secluded beach on the island, and the only one with no road to it at all. You arrive by boat or on foot down a coastal path, and it empties completely once the day boats leave in the afternoon.
The day
09:30Gustavia on foot
10:30Wellness yoga or water sport: jet ski tour or surf lessons
14:30Across to Colombier, 20 min by boat or 1h15 on the path
17:33Sunset, light holds to 17:57
19:30Dinner at Langosteria
23:59Back aboard at Gustavia
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The rest of the day
Sixteen hours ashore and only the evening is spoken for. The morning is wide open, and there is more in it than town: the north shore is in its surf season, there is a guided walk down to the natural pools on the windward side, and the coast the tender cannot reach can be done at speed. There is also a choice about how you reach the beach.
The morning
Gustavia on foot
The harbour is where the yacht lies, so the morning costs no transfer at all. Red roofs down to the water, the Swedish street names left from the island’s time under Sweden, the fort on the headland above the anchorage, and the shopping street behind the quay. An hour or two, at your own pace, before the day moves west.
No transferWalkableOwn pace
Getting in
Walk in, boat out
Colombier is the one beach with no road, so it is either boat or feet. The coastal path from Anse des Flamands runs about 4.8 kilometres with roughly 100 metres of climb, graded moderate, and takes an hour to an hour and a half at a walking pace. It is the better arrival of the two. The boat then comes for the return, which matters, because after sunset the path is not something to be walking in the dark.
4.8 km · 100 m climb1 to 1.5 hoursModerateBoat back, always
The morning · guided, from €70
The natural pools
The Atlantic side of the island drops into rock, and at Grand Fond the rock holds pools that fill and empty with the swell. Fifteen to thirty minutes on foot each way, and the pools are shallow enough to sit in and watch the ocean break a few metres away. It is guided either way, so what there is to choose is the guide rather than the route.
Grand Fond · 15 to 30 minShallow, sit-in poolsGuided and insuredTwo guides, from €70
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The morning · the north shore
Private surf lessons
The north swell season opens in the second half of November and runs to March, so 27 November sits at the front of the reliable window rather than outside it. Lorient is where a lesson happens: a forgiving peak straight off the beach, the island school on the sand, an hour with a state certified instructor and boards provided. It is priced by the hour rather than by the head — from €120 for the hour, about €190 for two, and less each beyond that, with boards, kit and the instructor included and no wetsuit needed at this time of year. Those are the island's published rates; the operator itself is not chosen yet. Toiny is the other name on the island and a different proposition, a point break for people who already surf, so anyone with the water time behind them would go there with a guide rather than an instructor. Either way it has to finish in time for the 14:30 crossing to Colombier.
Lorient for lessonsToiny if you already surfFrom €120 the hourAbout €190 for twoBoards and kit included
The morning · the fast version
Private jet ski tour
Most of the island's coastline is cliff and cove that nothing on the yacht can reach, and a private tour runs the shoreline rather than circling a bay. It leaves from Gustavia, where the yacht already lies, so it costs no transfer at all. €160 a head, private rather than a group and the guide included — the duration is the one thing still to confirm, and it is what decides whether this sits alongside the walk through town or replaces it. The best reviewed of the island operators takes the booking direct, by message rather than online, which is also what lets the hour move to suit the yacht. Back aboard in time for the 14:30 crossing to Colombier.
€160 per personPrivate, not a groupFrom GustaviaNo transferDuration to confirm
The natural pools, at Grand Fond
Grand Fond · Friday 27 November 2026 · Guided and insured
St Barth · The natural pools
One walk down to the pools, and two people who can take you.
The Atlantic side of the island drops into rock, and at Grand Fond the rock holds pools that fill and empty with the swell. Fifteen to thirty minutes on foot each way, over ground that asks for sure feet rather than fitness, and the pools at the end are shallow enough to sit in and watch the ocean break a few metres away. Both guides below walk it, so the only thing to choose is what you want the morning to be.
These two are alternatives, not additions. They walk the same ground with different temperaments: Carole Pernelle runs it as a guided walk with the swimming and the caves, Diana Bourel builds an itinerary around the party with breath and attention worked into it. Either has to be back aboard in time for the 14:30 crossing to Colombier.
The two guides
Insured guide · already at Colombier
Carole Pernelle, private walk to the pools
A qualified tourist guide with insurance in place, taking the natural rock pools privately, with the caves and the swimming that go with them. Her studio sits at Colombier, the same beach the evening is built around, so she knows the ground the whole day is set on. Hot yoga is the alternative if the morning should be gentler than a walk. The name we would put forward
Guide, insurance and route included
Per person
€70Per person · group rate on request
Diana Bourel, private wellness and hiking itinerary
An itinerary built round the party rather than a fixed route, with the difficulty and the length set by whoever is walking, and breath and attention worked into the hike itself. The one to take if the morning should feel like part of the occasion rather than an activity booked into it. The considered version of the same ground
Guide and bespoke itinerary included
Per person
€150Per person · route set with you beforehand
Published figures, nothing held yet. Both are quoted per person and both cover the natural pools, so they are alternatives rather than additions. Carole Pernelle holds a tourist guide qualification with insurance in place and her studio is at Colombier, the same beach the evening is built around, which is the reason her name is the one we would put forward. Group rates are on request. The morning holds one of these and the walk through town, not both.
Recommended · St Barth
Anse de Colombier
St Barths marine reserve · No road access · West facing
4 photos
Beach · Gustavia · St Barth
The evening at Colombier
From the yacht · About 20 min by tender from Gustavia, or 1h15 on the coastal path
A wide crescent of pale sand under dry green hills, with pelicans working the water and nothing built on it. Because no road reaches it, the only people there are the ones who came by sea or walked in, and by late afternoon that is almost nobody. The beach faces west, so the sun goes down straight in front of you rather than behind a headland. There are two ways in and they are worth choosing between. The tender runs from Gustavia in about twenty minutes. The coastal path from Anse des Flamands covers about 4.8 kilometres with roughly a hundred metres of climb, graded moderate, and takes an hour to an hour and a half at a walking pace, coming in over the headland with the crescent opening below you. Whichever way you arrive, the boat takes you off. The path is not something to be walking once the light has gone.
The day
09:30Gustavia on foot
10:30Wellness yoga or water sport: jet ski tour or surf lessons
14:30Across to Colombier, 20 min by boat or 1h15 on the path
17:33Sunset, light holds to 17:57
19:30Dinner at Langosteria
23:59Back aboard at Gustavia
Organiser identified
Dunia verdict
The strongest fallback on the voyage, and the most private setting of all four islands.
Line items · St Barth
There is no property to pay here, so the cost sits in the organiser, the boat and whatever is carried in. Every line below is still being quoted.
Local organiser
Sets and runs the evening on the beach · Identified, not yet engaged
Organiser
TBDAwaiting quotation
Private boat from Gustavia
Direct operator, mooring inside the reserve · To source
Charter
TBDAwaiting quotation
Beach setup and catering
Everything in and out by boat, nothing left behind · To source
Setup
TBDAwaiting quotation
The organiser fee is payable in addition to the day itself. Her fee, the boat, the setup and the catering are all separate and still being priced. Colombier sits inside the marine reserve, so a boat uses a mooring rather than anchoring.
Grenada, nobody to ask
Prickly Bay · Monday 23 November 2026 · Ashore 08:00 to 23:00 · Sunset 17:38
Island 02 · Grenada
Here nobody can tell you no, because nobody owns the view.
Grenada is the one island where we have left the hotels alone. Three settings, none of them owned by a property that has to say yes first: a ridge above both coasts, a chain of waterfalls in the rainforest, and the two mile beach on the west coast that faces the sunset.
Fifteen hours ashore, and three settings inside them. The yacht anchors in Prickly Bay on the south coast from 08:00 until 23:00. Grand Anse is under ten minutes by road, the two rainforest settings about forty minutes. Sunset falls at 17:38, and Grand Anse is the only one of the three that can hold it.
Option 01
Mount Qua Qua
Grand Etang · The interior
From the yacht · About 45 min by road from Prickly Bay
A ridge at 713 metres inside the forest reserve, walked out along a narrow spine from the crater lake, with the Caribbean on one side and the Atlantic on the other.
Both coasts at onceNo property involvedCloud and mud
See the full option
Option 02
Seven Sisters Falls
St Margaret · The rainforest
From the yacht · About 40 min by road, then 45 min on foot
Seven waterfalls dropping into cold green pools below Grand Etang, reached on foot through nutmeg and cocoa, with jungle closing in on every side.
Nobody within earshotUnlike any other settingSteep and slippery
See the full option
Option 03
Grand Anse Beach
Grand Anse · The west coast
From the yacht · Under 10 min by road from Prickly Bay
Two miles of white sand on the sheltered west coast, facing the sunset and closer to the yacht than anything else on the island. The one Grenada setting where the sun goes down over the water in front of you.
Sunset over the waterClosest to the yachtA public beach
See the full option
The rest of the day
Fifteen hours ashore leaves room either side of the setting itself. These are the four worth the drive, and each one pairs naturally with one of the options above.
Snorkel or dive · excursion boat included · pairs with Grand Anse
Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park
Jason deCaires Taylor sank the first of these in 2006 and it remains the first underwater sculpture park in the world, since named one of National Geographic's 25 Wonders of the World and now inside the Molinere Beauséjour Marine Protected Area. The figures sit between five and eight metres down, so snorkelling reaches them as easily as diving, and swim skill rather than certification decides which of the two you do. Boats leave from Grand Anse, which puts it on the same stretch of coast as Option 03, and the excursion boat out to the bay is part of both options.
National Geographic 25 wonders5 to 8 metresSnorkel or diveExcursion boat includedBoat from Grand Anse
See options
Dive · certified only
The Bianca C
A 180 metre liner that burned and sank off the south west coast in 1961 and is now the largest wreck dive in the Caribbean. She lies deep and in current, so this one is for advanced certification and a morning of its own. Closest of everything here to where the yacht lies in Prickly Bay.
Advanced onlyDepth to confirmClosest to Prickly Bay
On the way · pairs with the interior
Grand Etang crater lake
The lake sits in the crater at the top of the same reserve, on the road to both Mount Qua Qua and the Seven Sisters trailhead. Mona monkeys come down to the visitor centre in the morning. It costs nothing extra in time if either interior option is the one you choose.
On the same roadMona monkeysNo detour
The long version
The cocoa and nutmeg road
Grenada is the spice island and the estates are the reason. Gouyave on the west coast still processes nutmeg by hand, and Belmont Estate in the north east works cocoa from tree to bar. Belmont is the longest drive of anything on this page, so it works as a morning in its own right rather than an addition.
Tree to barGouyave and BelmontLongest drive
Molinere, the two ways in
Molinere Beauséjour Marine Protected Area · Monday 23 November 2026 · Boats from Grand Anse
Grenada · The rest of the day
Shallow enough to snorkel, deep enough to dive, and the same boat either way.
Jason deCaires Taylor sank the first of these in 2006 and it remains the first underwater sculpture park in the world, since named one of National Geographic's 25 Wonders of the World and now inside the Molinere Beauséjour Marine Protected Area. The figures stand between five and eight metres down, so snorkelling reaches them as easily as diving, and swim skill rather than certification decides which of the two you do. Boats leave from Grand Anse, on the same stretch of coast as Option 03.
Both options are the boat as well as the guide. Each is taken privately for the party rather than shared with a scheduled trip, which is what lets the hour move to suit the yacht. Fifteen hours ashore leaves room for this either side of whichever setting you choose.
The two private options
Swim skill decides this one, not budget. Same water, same boat, taken privately either way, and the only question is whether you go down on a breath or on a tank.
Dive Grenada, private snorkel trip
The sculpture park on an exclusive use boat, two hours, up to eight guests, run to whatever hour of the day suits the yacht rather than a schedule. The figures sit shallow enough that a mask reaches them. Priced for the boat, not per person
Private boat and guide included
Private boat
From US$750Two hours · up to eight guests
Dive Grenada, private one tank dive
The same water and the same boat with tanks aboard, two hours, up to eight divers. The park is shallow, so the tank buys time on the bottom rather than depth, and a reef or a drift site can be added on the way back. Certified divers only
Private boat, tanks and guide included
Private boat
From US$1,200Two hours · up to eight divers
Published figures, nothing held yet. Both are priced for exclusive use of the boat and cover the whole party rather than each guest, up to eight either way. A government marine park fee of EC$10, about US$3.50 per person per day, is paid ashore. Anything with tanks needs certification cards sighted before the day. We hold whichever of the two you point at, and the boat time moves to fit the yacht rather than the other way round.
Option 01 · Grenada
Mount Qua Qua
Grand Etang National Park · About 45 min from Prickly Bay
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Ridge · Grand Etang · Grenada
The high version
From the yacht · About 45 min by road from Prickly Bay
A ridge at 713 metres in the Grand Etang Forest Reserve, one of the four highest mountains on the island and the most walked of them. The trail leaves from the crater lake and climbs out along a narrow spine, with the Caribbean on one side and the Atlantic on the other. It is the one setting on Grenada that is neither a beach nor a property, and the only one where the two of you stand above the whole island rather than beside it.
The day
DaytimeTo be built
23:00Back aboard at Prickly Bay
Dunia verdict
The one setting on Grenada that no property controls, and the only one with a view of both coasts at once.
Line items · Mount Qua Qua · 23 November 2026
Nothing has been arranged yet. Each line below comes back with a figure and we build the day around the answer.
Private guide and permits
Grand Etang entry and a guide held for the two of you alone · To quote
Access
TBDPark fee is nominal
Transfer from Prickly Bay
About 45 minutes each way by road · To quote
Transfer
TBDReturn the same day
The setting
What can be carried up and set on the ridge · To quote
Setup
TBDNothing stays behind
Dinner after
On the coast or back aboard · To quote
Dinner
TBDYacht holds until 23:00
The trail is a public one inside a forest reserve, so what can be bought is a private guide and the timing, not the ridge itself. Mud, cloud and light are the three things to read before committing to a time.
Option 03 · Grenada
Grand Anse Beach
Grand Anse · Under 10 minutes from Prickly Bay
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Beach · West coast · Grenada
The easy version
From the yacht · Under 10 min by road from Prickly Bay
Two miles of white sand running down the sheltered west coast, ten minutes by road from where the yacht lies. It faces due west, so this is the one setting on Grenada where the sun goes down over open water in front of you at 17:38, and the only one that needs no walk in and no guide. It is also a public beach, so what we would hold is a section of it and everything on it, rather than the shoreline itself.
The day
DaytimeTo be built
23:00Back aboard at Prickly Bay
Dunia verdict
The only Grenada setting that gives you the sunset over water, and the shortest road of any option on the voyage.
Line items · Grand Anse · 23 November 2026
Nothing has been arranged yet. Each line below comes back with a figure and we build the day around the answer.
A held section of the beach
A stretch of sand set apart for the evening · To quote
Access
TBDPublic shoreline by law
Transfer from Prickly Bay
Under 10 minutes each way by road · To quote
Transfer
TBDReturn the same day
The setting
Everything carried on and cleared afterwards · To quote
Setup
TBDNothing stays behind
Dinner after
On the beach, on a property, or back aboard · To quote
Dinner
TBDYacht holds until 23:00
Grand Anse is a public beach, so no one can sell exclusive use of it. What can be arranged is a section held and staffed for the evening, either directly or through one of the properties along the sand. Sunset is at 17:38 and the yacht holds until 23:00.
Option 02 · Grenada
Seven Sisters Falls
St Margaret, St Andrew · About 40 min from Prickly Bay
1 photo
Waterfalls · St Margaret · Grenada
The green version
From the yacht · About 40 min by road, then 45 min on foot
A chain of seven waterfalls dropping through the rainforest below Grand Etang, also known as St Margaret’s Falls. The walk in runs about forty five minutes through nutmeg and cocoa and stands of bamboo, steep and slippery in places, and ends at a series of cold green pools closed in by jungle on every side. It is the opposite of a terrace at sunset: no horizon, no view, just water and rock and no one else within earshot.
The day
DaytimeTo be built
23:00Back aboard at Prickly Bay
Dunia verdict
The most private setting on the island, and the only one where the sound of the place does the work.
Line items · Seven Sisters · 23 November 2026
Nothing has been arranged yet. Each line below comes back with a figure and we build the day around the answer.
Private guide and entry
A guide and the trail held quiet for the two of you · To quote
Access
TBDEntry fee is nominal
Transfer from Prickly Bay
About 40 minutes each way by road · To quote
Transfer
TBDReturn the same day
The setting
What can be carried in to the pools · To quote
Setup
TBDEverything in and out by hand
Dinner after
On the coast or back aboard · To quote
Dinner
TBDYacht holds until 23:00
The falls sit on private land reached through a public reserve, so exclusive use has to be negotiated with the landowner rather than assumed. The trail is clay and roots, and it turns after rain.
The Grenadines, an island to yourselves
Sunday 22 November 2026 · Ashore 08:00 to 17:00 · Sunset 17:36 · Back aboard before the sun goes down
Island 01 · The Grenadines
You get the best water of the voyage, and an island closed for the two of you.
The Tobago Cays sit inside Horseshoe Reef in the southern Grenadines: five uninhabited islands, white sand shelving into a turquoise lagoon, green turtles in a marked zone off Baradal, and no buildings, no power and no infrastructure whatsoever. It is the best water of the whole voyage, and the one call where the day itself is the experience: snorkelling on the reef and with the turtles, and island hopping across the cays aboard the Shaka, a 33ft speedboat taken privately with captain and crew. Then Jamesby is taken for the two of you alone.
Everything else about this call is the easiest of the four. Mayreau to Jamesby is two and a half nautical miles, the lagoon is flat, and there is no property to ask and nobody on the cay. Nothing needs to be held past the yacht’s own hours. The sunset is not visible from the cay in any case, so you leave at 16:45, and the sun goes down at 17:36 while you are back on the water with the lagoon behind you.
The one option
Dunia second choice
Jamesby
Tobago Cays Marine Park · Inside Horseshoe Reef
From the yacht · 2.5 nm by tender from Mayreau
A full day on the water first: snorkelling with the turtles, then hopping between the cays aboard the Shaka, a 33ft speedboat taken privately with captain and crew, which collects you from the yacht. Then Jamesby is closed for the two of you, with a barbecue cooked on the sand. The sunset is watched from the water off Mayreau, once you are back aboard.
The day
08:45Shaka alongside at Mayreau
09:00Away for the Cays, 2.5 nm
09:30Snorkelling, and the turtles off Baradal
11:00Island hopping across the cays
13:30Jamesby closed, barbecue on the sand
16:45Back to the yacht at Mayreau
17:36Sunset, from the water
See the full option
The day, piece by piece
Three of the four below have to be taken and none of them is a hotel: the cay itself, the boat that carries you across the lagoon to it, and the table set on the sand once you are there. All three are now quoted, priced whole rather than per person, and together they come to US$4,450. The snorkelling comes with the boat.
The cay · closed for the two of you
Jamesby, fully private
Jamesby is uninhabited, and for the hours you are on it the whole cay is held for the two of you rather than shared with whoever else has crossed the lagoon that afternoon. That is what the figure buys: exclusive use of the island for the hours you are there, with nobody within earshot on a beach that has no buildings, no power and nothing else on it at all. The lunch carried onto it is a separate US$450.
Exclusive use of the cayNobody within earshotEverything in and outUS$2,500 total
The water · private charter
Island hopping by Shaka boat
The Shaka is a thirty-three foot centre console out of Union Island, twin three hundred and fifty horsepower Yamahas, taken privately with her captain and crew for the whole day rather than by the trip. She collects you from the yacht at Mayreau, crosses to the Cays, moves between them while you are there, and waits on a park mooring in between. The turtles, the snorkelling and the island hopping are all inside the figure, and there is an ice box of local drinks aboard made up to your own preference.
US$1,500 whole boatCollects from the yachtCaptain and crewTurtles and snorkelling inDrinks and gear aboard
See options
In the charter · 09:30
Snorkelling, and the turtles
Horseshoe Reef takes four kilometres of Atlantic swell before it reaches the islands, so the lagoon inside it stays flat and clear. Off Baradal there is a marked zone where green turtles graze the seagrass in water shallow enough to watch them from the surface. Masks, fins and snorkels come aboard with the boat, so there is nothing to hire and nothing to carry. The one thing we need from you in advance is a shoe size for each of you, so the fins are the right ones on the day.
Shoe size needed for each guestIncluded in the charterTurtles off BaradalMasks, fins and snorkels aboard
The table · private, on the sand
Barbecue lunch on Jamesby
A local barbecue cooked on the beach in front of you and eaten at a table laid for two with the lagoon a few metres away. The man who does it brings all of it across himself — his barbecue, the table, the chairs, the covers and the cutlery — sets it up on the cay, cooks, and takes every bit of it away again afterwards. US$450 for the two of you, EC$1,200 as he quoted it. The catch decides the menu, so it is set with him nearer the day, and he will put up a tent for shade or bring extra drinks beyond the boat's own ice box if you want them.
US$450 for twoCooked in front of youTable, chairs and covers broughtTent and extra drinks on request
Island hopping by Shaka boat
Tobago Cays Marine Park · Sunday 22 November 2026 · Private charter, captain and crew
The Grenadines · The boat
Fifteen minutes to the Cays, and the boat stays yours all day.
The Shaka is a thirty-three foot centre console out of Union Island, twin three hundred and fifty horsepower Yamahas, a dry cabin for anything that should not get wet, and comfortable seating for eight with more on request. Drinks and snorkel gear are aboard. She runs Union Island to the Tobago Cays in about fifteen minutes, and Mayreau, where the yacht lies, is closer still, so almost none of the day is spent getting there. She comes alongside the yacht to collect you, crosses to the cays, moves between them while you are there, and waits on a park mooring in between. The turtles, the snorkelling and the island hopping are all inside the charter.
The boat herself
Beached in the lagoon · the operator's own photographA pass around her at anchor
The charter
Shaka, private charter for the day
Thirty-three feet with a dry cabin and comfortable seating for eight, more on request, twin 350 horsepower Yamahas, and her own captain and crew. She collects you from the yacht at Mayreau, and the crossing, the Cays, the turtles, the snorkelling and the island hopping are all inside the figure. The ice box aboard is made up to your own preference — soda and tonic water, bitter lemon, ginger ale, a tropical cocktail, Hairoun beer from Saint Vincent and large bottles of Mountain Top still water. The whole boat, not a seat on it
Captain, crew, drinks and snorkel gear included
Whole boat
US$1,500Quoted for the day · up to eight aboard
Quoted for the day, nothing held yet. The US$1,500 is the boat, her captain and her crew for the whole day rather than a price per guest, and it is quoted for this date with the yacht pickup in it. The marine park fee is collected separately by a ranger on the water, and Jamesby itself is a separate booking again.
Five uninhabited islands sitting behind Horseshoe Reef, four kilometres of coral taking the Atlantic swell before it reaches the islands. White sand shelving into a turquoise lagoon, green turtles in a marked zone off Baradal, and no buildings, no power and no infrastructure of any kind. Jamesby is the southernmost of the four inside the reef, with a short climb to a high point that looks back over the whole lagoon.
The day
08:45Shaka alongside at Mayreau
09:00Away for the Cays, 2.5 nm
09:30Snorkelling, and the turtles off Baradal
11:00Island hopping across the cays
13:30Jamesby closed, barbecue on the sand
16:45Back to the yacht at Mayreau
17:36Sunset, from the water
Park rules apply
The evening runs on board. You are back at 17:00 and the sun goes down at 17:36, so the sunset you cannot see from the cay you get from the water and then from the yacht off Mayreau, which is the better view of the two. Dinner is served privately on your own terrace, laid for two, with the lagoon in front of you and nobody else on it. Before that, Champagne and Caviar on deck six opens at 16:00 and looks over the pool deck, and after dinner Marina Bar comes to life at sea level with the platforms folded out over the water, which on a marina day is the natural way to end it.
Dunia verdict
The most beautiful water of the four islands, and the only call that closes before the sun goes down.
Line items · Tobago Cays
No property to pay for here — the cost is the cay, the boat and the lunch that is carried onto the beach. All three are now quoted and the day comes to US$4,450 for the two of you. Only the park fee is open, and a ranger collects that on the water.
Jamesby, fully private for the couple
Exclusive use of the cay for the hours you are on it, uninhabited, with nobody else landed on the beach · Quoted
The cay held for the two of you
The cay
US$2,500Total, for the two of you
Shaka, private boat and crew
Thirty-three feet out of Union Island, captain and crew, taken privately for the whole day. She collects you from the yacht at Mayreau and the figure covers the crossing, the Cays, the turtles, the snorkelling and the island hopping · Quoted
Captain, crew, drinks and snorkel gear included
Charter
US$1,500The whole boat, for the day
Marine park fees
Collected by a ranger on the water, per person per day. The one line the operator cannot quote in advance · Nominal
Park
NominalSettled on the water
Barbecue lunch on the sand, table and setup
His own barbecue, table, chairs, covers and cutlery brought across to Jamesby and set up there, and a local barbecue cooked fresh in front of you. A tent can be added if you want shade, and extra drinks beyond what the boat carries · Quoted · EC$1,200
Lunch
US$450For the two of you · cooked on the beach
The Tobago Cays are a national marine park, so the boat takes a park mooring rather than anchoring on reef or seagrass, and nothing may be left on the cay. All three figures are quoted and none is held yet. All aboard at Mayreau is 17:00 and sunset is 17:36, so the day on the cay finishes in the afternoon and the sunset is watched from the water.
Compare
Six settings, and the clock decides more of this than the view does.
The yacht decides more than the setting does. Each island gets one call, on one date, with its own hours ashore, and that is what decides how much of the day you get and when you have to be back. The moment is Sugar Beach at 17:20; the clock rows are what separate the rest.
Criterion
JamesbyGrenadines · Sun 22 Nov
Mount Qua QuaGrenada · Mon 23 Nov
Seven SistersGrenada · Mon 23 Nov
Grand AnseGrenada · Mon 23 Nov
Sugar BeachSaint Lucia · Wed 25 Nov
Anse de ColombierSt Barth · Fri 27 Nov
Hours ashore
08:00 to 17:00
08:00 to 23:00
08:00 to 23:00
08:00 to 23:00
08:00 to 23:59
08:00 to 23:59
From the yacht
2.5 nm by tender from Mayreau
About 45 min by road, then on foot
About 40 min by road, then 45 min on foot
Under 10 min by road, straight onto the sand
About 50 min by fast charter, straight onto the sand
About 20 min by tender from Gustavia
The moment
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17:20, the sand between the Pitons
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Sunset
Not from the cay, watched from the water
Not from the ridge, the walk out comes first
No horizon in the forest
Yes, 17:38, over the water
Yes, 17:32
Yes, 17:33, light to 17:57
Dinner after
Back aboard
On the coast, or back aboard
On the coast, or back aboard
On the beach, or back aboard
Great Room or Bayside
Back aboard, or Gustavia
Where we are
All three quoted, none held
Guide and timing to arrange
Landowner to approach
Section to be held
Planner engaged
Organiser identified
Cost
US$4,450
TBD
TBD
TBD
From US$2,156 · US$4,585 or US$7,277 with a room
TBD
Scroll sideways to see all six settings
If the picture matters most
Saint Lucia
Both Piton settings put the two mountains in every frame, and the 25th is the longest window ashore of the voyage. It is the day with the most room in it and the least explaining afterwards.
If being alone matters most
Anse de Colombier
No road reaches the beach, the day boats leave in the afternoon, and the sun goes down over open water at 17:33 with light holding to 17:57. The one setting that is both empty and at dusk.
If the water matters most
Jamesby
The most beautiful water of the four islands, and nobody on the cay at all. It is also the only call that closes before the sun goes down, so the question happens in full afternoon light.
Set aside
Considered for you, and why we left them out.
Rock Maison, Cap MaisonSet aside
A deck built on a rock in the open sea, ten minutes from Rodney Bay. Beautiful, and heavily photographed. It lost its main advantage when the yacht times came back: she leaves Rodney Bay at 15:00, so the evening would end with an hour back to Marigot Bay by road.
Anse l'IvrogneSet aside
A deserted cove under Gros Piton, the most private setting we found on Saint Lucia. The whole bay is a designated priority fishing area inside the marine park, so it cannot be reserved and seine netting happens at dusk. The one option where something outside our control can arrive mid moment.
Petit TabacSubstituted
The Pirates of the Caribbean cay, outside Horseshoe Reef and quieter than the rest of the park. Replaced by Jamesby, which sits inside the reef with a short climb and a sheltered landing, and suits a half day ashore better than the open crossing.
Diamond FallsDaytime only
A 15 m fall over a mineral stained rock face that changes colour, unique on the island and privately owned. Bathing is not permitted and the light goes in the gorge by 16:30, so it works as a daytime element rather than the moment itself.
Saint-Pierre, MartiniqueThe day after
Thursday the 26th, fifteen minutes from Habitation Ceron and its 350 year old zamana tree. Better used for the celebration after the question than for the question itself, and it sits directly after Saint Lucia.
Prickly Bay and Gustavia townFallback
Both calls run late enough to hold a wet weather alternative close to the yacht. Neither is a setting we would choose, but each keeps the evening alive if the sea or the sky closes the first choice on the day.
