Tourist board visit to Grenada

I was lucky enough to spend a week in Grenada this October, courtesy of the Grenadian Tourist Board. We were a small group of six travel professionals with our very own travel writer Emily Payne (writing for Travel Weekly). We stayed at three hotels and we visited many more of the island’s hotels for lunch or dinner, often hosted by the hotel owners (who were mostly Grenadian).

Grenada has acres of white sand, rum punch and palm trees, and seems to have more charm than many of its sister islands, and the waterfalls, lakes and endless greenery make it a little more diverse too. Caribbean lovers often opt for all-inclusive, but here I would advise clients to stay B&B or half-board then you can try the local eateries and travel round the island.

Quoted from Travel Journalist Emily Payne ‘Differentiating Grenada from the other Caribbean islands is remarkably easy. While it has the universal appeal of being somewhere to get away from it all in a hammock on the beach, it feels less packaged. The marine life is abundant, dive sites are close to the major hotels, and the people are so very friendly.’

Grenada has year round appeal the wettest month tends to be July but you still get temperatures of 26C and about seven hours’ sunshine. Also the dreaded hurricane season is not really an issue here as it is so far south from the main belt of occurrence. The island is about the size of the Isle of White and it is very easy and safe to travel around. One day we were taken out on a snorkelling trip by an island dweller, originally from the UK, who had fallen in love with Grenada (a common theme here). While chatting on our way back to shore it transpired that he used to live in Kirkham and his sister works in Lytham, such a small world really.

We spent the week in a fantastic range of hotels from 3* charming to 5* luxury, tried river tubing down sparkling lush waterways, visited rum distilleries, nutmeg factories and chocolate plantations and snorkelled over coral reefs and experienced the beauty of Grenada’s tropical countryside. I can now genuinely say I’m a Grenada expert!