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| Subject: Re: Places to stay in the Caribbean - Help please
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Posted on: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 16:52:26 -0400
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Forget the Caribbean. Go to Costa Rica.
PV,
GW
"Don Wiss" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:16:53 GMT, Tim wrote:
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>>The plan so far is to island hop with 4-5 nights at each stop - staying at
>>all inclusive places as at least we can sort that out quickly from this
>>end
>>before we go -
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> I see absolutely no reason why you'd want to stay at all inclusives. Pick
> up Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands and it will suggest many places to
> stay. And being off season you should not have a problem finding a place.
>
> To book your places be careful of just picking up the phone and calling.
> Calls to the Caribbean are expensive. I use the 101-6868 dial around for
> my
> calls. There are others you can use.
>
>> although we do intend to escape from these and get to see
>>what the islands are actually like
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>>From the research I've done so far it looks like St Lucia is a must see
>>after that it's anything goes
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> I usually island hop. One of my trips did start in St. Lucia. You can find
> the trip journal from it (and others) here: http://donwiss.com/travel/
> You will see how I did it without spending a lot of money.
>
> As for the Union Island to Carriacou connection, there is a fisherman
> based
> in Carriacou that goes between the islands. If you guys decide to do this
> trip we can try to dig up more information. Or pay for a fellow with
> speedboat like I did.
>
> Don (e-mail link at page bottoms).
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