Piton ain't bad, I s'pose - I always preferred Carib, provided it's St. Kitts not Trini brewed...
To return to St. Lucia and Sandals, did you realise that they actively discourage people from going outside? To the extent of making it difficult to hire cars, or phone for taxis? Even losing the guy who guards the gate so you have to wait 30 mins to get out? I've heard several reports about behaviour like this, in different Sandals resorts.
And to make things quite plain, they're not the only offenders.
If you want to go to the Caribbean, you can see it cheaply, and safely, without putting yourself in a prison compound, where the guardians fleece the island of everything it can afford, don't give any work to the locals...
BTW, TBone, you ever hang around that corner table in the Lord Nelson @ ANU?