| Loads of hotels in BGI - take your pick. All relatively expensive. All depends on your taste. I can't recommend any hotels in SVD - I lived there for quite a while, but never stayed in any. They WILL be cheaper that BGI. I always preferred the less-developed islands, so my preference would be to go for SVD for the night, then across to BQA. Lots to see in SVD - the Botanic Gardens, Basil's Bar in Kingstown (offshoot of the famous bar in Mustique), eat at Papa Spoon's Irie Soul Food Cafe (Rasta cuisine at its best). BGI I always found too manicured, too much like Tunbridge Wells with palm trees. Alternatively, you could go straight from BGI to BQA and take a daytrip ferry over to SVD. Hope you like things quiet in Bequia. You WILL have to be sparing on the water. In the shower, wet yourself down, turn the water off, soap & wash, water back on to rinse. Likewise when carrying out other necessary bodily functions, the rule is "If it's brown, flush it down - if it's yellow, be mellow" - Also seen as "In the land of sun and fun, we never flush for Number 1". What water there is is safe (it's almost ALL tankered in), so don't worry about ice cubes in your drink or using it to brush your teeth, but use bottled water to drink. Local beers are great - Hairoun, Carib, Red Stripe etc. I can't remember any rum shacks in Bequia, but if there are, they'll be safe. Well worth going to one to see real local colour. You'll get almost no local colour in Barbados. The land of McDonalds, KFC etc. Yuck. Also V expensive. Other excellent things to do - very, VERY good diving in Bequia. Take a day trip down to the Keys - wonderful small coral island atoll partway down the Grenadines. Mustique may be worth a visit just to see the playground of the rich and famous - Mick Jagger, Raquel Welch, the late (pickled) Princess Margaret, etc. Have fun! |