St Kitts / Island Hopping

St Kitts is also well positioned as a springboard for some Caribbean island hopping in the north-eastern Caribbean. It is one of a scattering of islands in the area that have radically different characters. Some differ in their appearance and geography - they may be lower-lying and scrubbier than St Kitts, but with the white sand beaches that St Kitts doesn’t really have - or they may be different in their culture. There are French islands and some Dutch islands nearby.

St Kitts is well served by local airlines so it easy to get around.

The only island with boat services from St Kitts, and the obvious place to visit anyway, is St Kitts’ sister island Nevis, which is well worth a day or more. Separated from St Kitts by just two miles of sea, Nevis is supernaturally charming, both in its appearance and character. It is just six miles by eight in size and is immensely green and fertile and has a pace of life that is gentler even than St Kitts. Like St Kitts, it has a speciality in plantation houses which are well worth a visit, but there is also good beach life on Pinney’s Beach and good walking in the rainforest. It is one of the very few islands that have retained the charm of the old Caribbean of fifty years ago. See under Ferries.

If you want to look farther afield for a foil to the quietness of St Kitts then you could try one of the busier islands in the area. To the south there is Antigua, which has superb beaches and beach bars, some good restaurants and excellent visible history in the forts and former naval Dockyard in the south-east. There are good hotels of all styles and standards. You might fly in via here, so it would be easy to spend a couple of days enroute or on the journey out.

Or you could try St Maarten/St Martin to the north, which is a very lively place, also with excellent beaches and restaurants. Similarly, you might arrive via this island (the airport is on the Dutch side, St Maarten), so you can stop off for a couple of days enroute. There is a good variety of accommodation on the island and there is good sailing too.

Close to St Martin there are the smaller islands of Anguilla and St Barths, which are more expensive and exclusive but have an extremely high standard of accommodation and restaurants. Anguilla is accessible by direct flight from St Kitts, but for St Barths you will need to change planes in St Maarten. Finally there is Saba, a charming small volcanic island with good scuba, and Statia, which is extremely quiet.

Definitive Caribbean's recommended local organiser in St Kitts, Kantours, has an IATA-bonded travel agency. They are able to arrange inter-island tickets to islands in the area.

Regional airlines serving St Kitts include:

American Eagle from San Juan, LIAT from Antigua, Anguilla and St Maarten, and Winair from St Maarten and Nevis.

If you wish to travel at your own convenience then it might be a good idea to make the hop with one of the many small charter planes that service the area.

Charter airlines serving St Kitts include:

Island Birds - Island Birds is a small and reliable charter airline that is based in the BVI. It has a small fleet of 5 and 7 seater Piper aircraft and is licensed for almost every airstrip between San Juan and Grenada, including St Barths.

St Barth Commuter - A local airline based in St Barths, which offers scheduled flights from there to St Martin/St Maarten and private aircraft charters to islands all over the Eastern Caribbean. They have a fleet of five twin-engine planes.

SVG Air - A local Caribbean airline based in St Vincent that offers shared and private charters. SVG Air has around a dozen 5-19-seater planes and also offers island hopping and air ambulance services.

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Island Birds - Upgrade listing
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A small and reliable charter airline based in the BVI. It has a small fleet of 5 and 7-seater Piper aircraft that are used for transfers, island hopping, day trips and sightseeing from the air. It is licensed for most airstrips between San Juan and Grenada.

Location: Beef Island, Virgin Islands (British), VG

Phone284 495 2002 Fax284 495 0143 Email Websitehttp://www.islandbirds.com/

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St Barth Commuter - Upgrade listing
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A local airline based in St Barts, which offers scheduled flights to St Martin/St Maarten and private charters to islands all over the Eastern Caribbean. It has a fleet of four aircraft and five specially trained (STOL) pilots with permission to land in St Barths.

Aeroport Gustaf III St Jean, Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean, Saint Barthelemy, BL

Phone(+590) 590 27 54 54/0590 27 97 17 Email Websitehttp://www.stbarthcommuter.com

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Ferries
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PO Box, 130 Basseterre, St Kitts, WI

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