St. Lucia, Photo by Fastway under a Creative Commons license
The lush, tropical island of St. Lucia is one of the Top 10 cruise destinations for 2012, according to the TravelBite website. St. Lucia offers beautiful sugar sand and black sand beaches, mountain views and a wide variety of activities. Lying between the French island of Martinique and St. Vincent, St. Lucia is an increasingly recognized and visited gem of the eastern Caribbean.
Many of the island’s hotels can be found north of the Capital city of Castries. This includes the popular area of Rodney Bay, which boasts the island’s liveliest beach, Reduit, with its fine white sands.
Other beaches, as listed by the stlucia-guide.info site are:
- Anse Chastanet, southwest
- Anse Couchon, southwest
- Anse des Pitons, southwest
- Anse des Sables,southeast
- Choc Beach, northwest
- La Toc Beach, northwest
- Malabar Beach, northwest
- Marigot Bay,northwest
- Marigot Beach, northwest
- Pigeon Point Beach, south
- Reduit Beach, north
- Rodney Bay, north
- Vieux Fort, southeast
- Vigie Beach, northwest
The other top Caribbean cruise destinations as outlined by TravelBite are:
- Aruba
- Jamaica
- The Bahamas
- Puerto Rico
- The Dominican Republic
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curacao
What are you favorite Caribbean cruise destinations?
