ST LUCIA FINALLY HERE

 ROAD WARRIORS

If you are a sainted reader who follows VFH’s antics around the world you will know that we are seasoned travelers. We like adventure. We like new experiences. We realize that sometimes travel takes time. We haven’t perfected our teleportation device anyway, so we are at the mercy of this capricious world that likes to change logistics…moving the goalpost during the game as it were.

Well, we left our abode on Friday afternoon and on Monday evening we finally arrived in the island nation of St. Lucia.

We flew to Fiji in less time.

We flew to Vietnam in less time.

We stayed in three hotels over two days before finally getting on a plane that did not turn around or make an unscheduled landing somewhere along the way.

DELTA finally delivered us to our vacation. Better late than never?

We missed our pre-stay spot with the Bay Gardens Hotel in Rodney Bay and arrived at Sandals around 7:30 pm on Monday.

FUN TO SEE ISLAND FERRY

Once we finally got to St. Lucia things went rather smoothly. Janet had filled out our St. Lucia immigration forms THREE times as our itinerary changed and that saved us a lot of time fumbling with this once we arrived. Sandals alerted us to this necessity, but here’s the link: ST. LUCIA IMMIGRATION

We could have had Sandals pick us up at the airport, which is on the other side of the island, but we decided to take the ferry that travels up the Caribbean Sea past the Pitons and making two stops. The first one is at Castries and then Rodney Bay where our resort, Sandals Grand St. Lucian is located.  

FUN TO SEE ISLAND FERRY

It was a great way to start our delayed vacation. At about $400 it’s not cheap (a taxi is about $100 and the Sandals van is free) but it’s a smooth ride on the Caribbean side with a beautiful late afternoon view of the Pitons, the twin ‘mountains’ that are St. Lucia’s most identifying feature. We paid extra for “fast track” for a representative to get us through immigration quicker and for seats upstairs rather than down. We ended up spending most of our time on the bow of the ship anyway so maybe that extra cost wasn’t necessary, but the most important cost we incurred was their travel insurance. Without it we would have lost our money and could not have delayed our ride for two days.

The crew was attentive and jovial posing with and snapping pictures of us and the scenery and the sunset. They also served free drinks and snacks,

It was dark when we finally arrived at Rodney Bay and a quick taxi ride, courtesy of the ferry company, to Sandals where our week of pampering began.

Finally.

Thanks for reading.

Love Janet and greg

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