My brother and sister-in-law lived on St. Kitts for 3 years (he just
went back a week ago). I don't remember anything about bands of wild
dogs. It's very new to the tourism business and not well developed.
Not much shopping or anything. They have a nice rain forest for hiking
and plantations to visit. I remember taking the train ride around the
island and the first thing you do if go through a pig sty (really).
Hopefully they got rid of that. There is one beach (whose name escapes
me) that has monkeys that will come up to you if you offer them
something to eat which was fun. If you're looking for a beach, head
off towards the Marriott which is the nicer part of the island.
Dick G wrote:
> "Margaret Caldwell Ott" wrote in message
> news:hrkpe2tfppha38ji06ve6m357b67h6qap7@4ax.com...
> >
> > Given that the cruise lines that we usually patronize these days
> > (Celebrity and NCL) are not running longer voyages (10 nights or so)
> > out of New York for Christmas 2007/New Year's 2008, Derek and I
> > decided to look into other lines sailing out of our home port that
> > might have something to suit the length we want. We came up with a 12
> > night voyage on Explorer of the Seas that departs from Cape Liberty
> > New Jersey on December 23, 2007 and returns on January 4, 2008. It
> > looks to suit our cruise calendar perfectly (read my school calendar),
> > and the price is certainly not to be beat--they even gave us a nice
> > discount for our many past sailings with Celebrity. The itinerary also
> > features a stop at St. Kitts that would be a new port for us--also
> > appealing.
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> > PegNDerek
> >
> Dear Peg,
>
> IMHO there is nothing appealing about St. Kitts. Been there, did that. I
> don't remember why we went there, we were not supposed to, and we tendered
> off of HAL's Veendam which is half of the size of Explorer.
>
> St. Kitts is home to the largest percentage of AIDS victims in the
> Caribbean, and, if that isn't a big enough turnoff, when your tender arrives
> you are 500 yards from anything, and should you walk to "civilization" you
> will find yourself in a town about the size of the shopping area of your
> ship, inhabited, as we were told, by packs of wild dogs.
>
> We travel with a "service dog", and while we knew that St. Kitts flies the
> British flag and our dog probably was not going to be welcome, we tried to
> get her ashore so that she could relieve herself on something green. We
> did, and she did, and it was because we walked into "center city" to dump
> the "dump" that we ran into the guy who asked us to leave, not because they
> banned dogs, but because, as he explained, there were packs of roving wild
> dogs.
>
> I'd like to believe that what he said was true, and that he was looking out
> for us, but when we got back to the tender area we came under the scrutiny
> of a very large woman who never took her eyes off of the terrorist dog, and
> who stood between us an the town when we asked if we could take pictures.
>
> YMMV, but to us St. Kitts offers nothing.
> --
> DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
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