Best Caribbean Islands - St Bart's

Located in the Leeward Islands and belonging to the French state, St Bart's, or to give it its correct name, St Barthelemey, has long been known as a playground for the rich and famous from all over the world.

St Bart's is a pretty island, with plenty of greenery. To cross the island involves climbing one or two somewhat challenging ascents, particularly when the roads are wet and the tyres are not gripping well.

St Bart's relies upon tourism for its income and is the preferred location of those who wish to spend their vacation in relative privacy. Although there are a number of chic hotels, most of the tourists who visit the island tend to stay in one of the many private villas that are available for rental, frequently for substantial sums of money.

St Bart's is famous also for its twenty-one beaches, some more private (and inaccessible than others).

The island is also popular with yachtsmen and sailors, with many yachts mooring off one of the beaches for a night in Gustavia, the island's capital, as part of a Caribbean sailing trip.

Although the official currency is the Euro, due to St Bart's being part of the European Union the United States Dollar is pretty well universally accepted.

Travelling around the island is possible either through renting a car or using one of the multitude of taxis. Of course, you can also sail around the island if you are vacationing on board a vessel.

The cuisine and ambience in St Bart's is typically French and cordon bleu food is the order of the day there.!

Travelling to St Bart's is possible by boat, by air, into its small airport or, the most straightforward way, by a short ferry ride from Marigot (the island capital) or Oyster Pond on the neighbouring French island of St Martin which has, on the Dutch side of the island, Princess Juliana International Airport, which takes regular flights from the United States and Canada and Europe.

St Bart's is by no means an inexpensive island but for the beauty of its landscape, its beaches and the designer hotels, restaurants and shops it is a place that is worth visiting if only for a day, to rub shoulders with some of the glitterati who inhabit it for their own vacations.

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