Island Specialities (food or souvenir)

[fina]

;) Hi all,

A group of us will be on the Golden traveling to Barbados, Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Thomas and St. Marteen in October. We would love to try any local specialities, any suggestions for these islands? And is there any Must-Buy souvenirs from these islands? Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!

I love this forum, I have gotten many good advise and ideas here!!!!

fina

 

Golden Princess - Southern Caribbean 10/17/04

[crsshiplover]

Have a Guavaberry Colada in St. Maarten.

[roohound]

banana ketchup in St. Lucia...sounds gross..tastes divine

[hstrybuf]

Barbados - RUM! :D

Antigua - See Nick Maley, at The Yoda Guy, for interesting Star Wars memorabilia or a personalized map of your itinerary.

St. Maarten - anything from the Guavaberry Shop

St. Lucia - anything from Caribelle Batik

St. Thomas - try a Bushwacker

[tom-n-jules]

St. Maarten - anything from the Guavaberry Shop

 

Agree w/above!! But ESPECIALLY pick up a bottle of their steak sauce. It is FABULOUS!!! We only bought one bottle......dumb enough!! :p Friends of ours went down there earlier this spring and we had them pick up a couple more bottles for us!!!

[nebulous]

St. Thomas -

Guava Jam

Cruzan Rum (they have a mini-sampler with all sorts of flavors, pineapple and banana are fabulous)

 

St. Lucia -

saffron, cinnamon, whole nutmeg

ginger rum (great for cooking)

Piton beer (amazing beer!!!)

Royal beer (from Trinidad, darker delish beer)

[katisdale]

On St. Lucia we went to Carabelle Batik. They gave us a very interesting tour that showed the process used to make the cloth. You have the "opportunity" to purchase at the end of the tour. I got two pillow covers for the throw pillows on our sofa. They are printed with beautiful tropical fish. Have a great cruise.

[95glide]

In Barbados make sure you try the flying fish. It's preparred all different ways. Try a flying fish cutter (sandwich). Every restaurant has flying fish on their menu. It is their national dish.

[fina]

Thanks for all the great suggestions....Keep them coming, please :D

 

fina

[Muumuu]

In St Thomas at the Guavaberry Shop what items do they have? Will be there and will be picking up gifts for our guava addict daughter.. And where is it? Thank you

[crsshiplover]

The Guavaberry shop I am thinking of is in St. Maarten. The link is here: http://www.guavaberry.com/guavaberry.htm. Several, if not all, of their products are on this site. I love this place!!!

[mii]

Thanks for the suggestions. We are going in Feb. to these islands and got some wonderful ideas. Again, thanks.

 

Marilyn

[mmsoko]

We're cruising to these ports....any ideas?

[tom-n-jules]

At the Guavaberry place -- we bought the coolest bottles of the liqueur with hand-painted Christmas designs as gifts for friends. They were just a little more expensive than the plain ol' bottles and they had really beautiful designs on them. They could easily be used for regular Christmas decorating after they were emptied!! :D