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Friday 2/19/10 - JDPNYY's Question of the day (327):
How many Caribbean Islands have you been to?
(Name the Caribbean Islands you've been to)
(You might even put them in order of which you liked best to worst)
(You might name some you'd like to go to, if you haven't been to any)
RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees
02-19-10, 12:46 AM
In order of liking
1) Hispaniola (specifically Haiti)
2) St. Thomas, USVI
3) Puerto Rico
I'd like to go to...all the rest.
Stick Michael
02-19-10, 01:08 AM
One, in this order:
1) Bahamas
DontHateOnNumber2
02-19-10, 02:02 AM
1. Puerto Rico.
That's all.
St. Maarten (loved it there and wish I could live there)
Bahamas
Jamaica
I'm missing one but I can't remember.
PalmerGA
02-19-10, 07:11 AM
1. Puerto Rico.
That's all.Ditto
RhodyYanksFan
02-19-10, 07:12 AM
St. Maartin
St. Lucia
St. Thomas on the way to St. John
Aruba
Turks & Caicos
Does Grand Cayman count?
My favorite is Aruba. Nicest beach, friendly people, and my first international hookup. So what if she was from Canada and we were by the equator?
10. Best to worst:
1. Grenada
2. St. Lucia
3. Barbados
4. St. Thomas
5. Bonaire
6. St. Johns
7. Antigua
8. St. Kitts
9. Aruba
10. Princess Cays
stazsanity
02-19-10, 08:06 AM
1. St. Thomas
2. Tortola (hidden gem...see it if you can)
3. St. John
4. Grand Cayman Islands
5. St. Croix
6. Puerto Rico
Ram Man
02-19-10, 08:09 AM
1. Puerto Rico
2. Grand Bahama (one of 23 inhabited islands in the Bahamas)
1. St. Thomas
2. Tortola (hidden gem...see it if you can)
3. St. John
4. Grand Cayman Islands
5. St. Croix
6. Puerto Rico Tortola is on the list for next year, along with St. Maarten and Curacao. What's good on Tortola?
TinoFan84
02-19-10, 08:17 AM
Grand Cayman ... for my honeymoon. Beautiful place, a touch expensive but I'd go back in a heartbeat.
MunsonNY15
02-19-10, 08:29 AM
None :(
Heidi
theDurk
02-19-10, 08:36 AM
Destinations:
New Providence (Nassau) 1960's, British Empire Nassau--saw Beach Boys live on Cable Beach, debut performance of Sloop John B.,also met Sean Connery--he stole our car by mistake.
St. Croix
St. Thomas
Jamaica
Cozumel
Grand Cayman (on business, yes, THAT kind of business)
Isla das Mujeres (off Cancun, JUST into the Caribbean)
Stat-Padders:
Balmoral Island(private hotel beach island, off Cable Beach)
Norman's Cay (uninhabited at time, float plane picnic, read the Wikipedia:Linky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay))
Hogg Island (uninhabited at time, now called Paradise Island, boat picnic)
Lyford Cay (really part of New Providence, but used to be separate)
Coral bump filmed in Thunderball, right next to where the jet plane mock-up was filmed underwater, no name as far as I remember--SCUBA trip after movie was done--yes, I was certified at age 11, at least Bahamian style)
Puerto Rico (changed planes for St. Thomas)
DEADSOX
02-19-10, 08:40 AM
Durk, what the hell do you do, it seems you've been to every nook and cranny in the world lol.
My answer:
1) Singing The Beach Boys "Kokomo" during warm summer days.
BonusCantos
02-19-10, 08:45 AM
I have been to zero. I would like to go to most of them.
RhodyYanksFan
02-19-10, 08:50 AM
Tortola is on the list for next year, along with St. Maarten and Curacao. What's good on Tortola?
The rum.
CoyoteYankee
02-19-10, 08:52 AM
1. St. Maarten
2. Bahamas
3. Puerto Rico
4. Isla Margarita
My favorite was Margarita Island. We went before it was a big tourist destination. The locals bent over backward to make sure we had a good time so we would go back and tell our American friends about how great the island is. Since it wasn't really "touristy" a lot of the restaurants and bars/clubs we went to were full of locals and it was an absolute blast (and dirt cheap!)
Turks and Caicos and the Dominican Republic are two places I really want to go. They will have to wait until after I hit some countries in Europe though.
Maynerd
02-19-10, 08:59 AM
Does Key West count? Key Biscaine? I think they're considered to be in the Straits of Florida, or something like that, but I don't know if that counts as a sub-set of the Carribean.
If the Keys count, then I've been to those two. If they DON'T count, I haven't been to any.
theDurk
02-19-10, 09:12 AM
Durk, what the hell do you do, it seems you've been to every nook and cranny in the world lol.
First, management consultant, then investment banker (in Brazil), now real estate, plus some Brazilian freelance stuff.
I like to travel. Also sent kids all over the world for education, then I'd go see them. Now they go on their own, then I go see them. My ex-wife is Italian, with a sister married to an EU diplomat, so that is a few more trips. It all adds up. Plus I'm old, even older than Muggsy, by a hair.
b-ball-lunachick
02-19-10, 09:14 AM
Just one - Jamaica and I'm never going back there.
CoyoteYankee
02-19-10, 09:19 AM
Just one - Jamaica and I'm never going back there.
Why not?
Why not?
Yeah. I'm curious too. Don't keep us hanging, Jeanne. :D
b-ball-lunachick
02-19-10, 09:30 AM
Why not?
The ride to the resort to and from the airport was not for the weak stomached like myself - both in road issues and things I'd probably be better without seeing. ;) And then we got to the airport to go home and the Air Jamaica airport, flight staff and planes were all crap - we couldn't get off the island and they wouldn't give most of us rooms to stay overnight - they carted us to this nearby yucky Holiday Inn to eat dinner and we had to sit in a dining room with all our luggage...cart us back to the airport which was closed other than us waiting for the plane to come in and people were sleeping on a dirty floor..
when we finally got on the plane, a mechanic sprayed himself with some sort of acid in the face so we sat another two hours on there while they carted him off to the hospital and tried to fix the plane. we wound up flying back with no radar, VERY low, with many people with their heads between their legs ready to barf and worried about crashing..and their people were a-holes.
there was a lot more but you get the gist. :D the nice, peaceful, relaxing time we had at the resort was sort of ruined by the last day's experience. :D
JL25and3
02-19-10, 09:31 AM
Puerto Rico (where my girlfriend at the time was from)
Hispaniola - specifically, the Dominican Republilc (where my wife at the time was born)
St. Thomas and St. John
Generally, they're not high on my list of vacation destinations. I want to have more than a beach, even a gorgeous beach.
CoyoteYankee
02-19-10, 09:40 AM
The ride to the resort to and from the airport was not for the weak stomached like myself - both in road issues and things I'd probably be better without seeing. ;) And then we got to the airport to go home and the Air Jamaica airport, flight staff and planes were all crap - we couldn't get off the island and they wouldn't give most of us rooms to stay overnight - they carted us to this nearby yucky Holiday Inn to eat dinner and we had to sit in a dining room with all our luggage...cart us back to the airport which was closed other than us waiting for the plane to come in and people were sleeping on a dirty floor..
when we finally got on the plane, a mechanic sprayed himself with some sort of acid in the face so we sat another two hours on there while they carted him off to the hospital and tried to fix the plane. we wound up flying back with no radar, VERY low, with many people with their heads between their legs ready to barf and worried about crashing..and their people were a-holes.
there was a lot more but you get the gist. :D the nice, peaceful, relaxing time we had at the resort was sort of ruined by the last day's experience. :D
That stinks. Glad you had some fun at the beginning though.
fredgmuggs
02-19-10, 09:48 AM
It seems to me like we've had this question once before... but JDP keeps a spread sheet of his questions so I guess it's a new one.
b-ball-lunachick
02-19-10, 09:51 AM
That stinks. Glad you had some fun at the beginning though.
Yes we did spend a lot of time with some hot Australians so there was definitely some good parts of the trip. :D they were all following their cricket team from country to country.
YankeeGalSC
02-19-10, 09:58 AM
Is Cuba considered Caribbean? That's the only one (Gitmo when there was still a military presence).
Bozidar
02-19-10, 09:58 AM
Friday 2/19/10 - JDPNYY's Question of the day (327):
How many Caribbean Islands have you been to?
(Name the Caribbean Islands you've been to)
(You might even put them in order of which you liked best to worst)
(You might name some you'd like to go to, if you haven't been to any)None :( I dont even know them very well, so can't really comment on where i'd like to go. Bottom line is that in the middle of winter i'd like to take time off and go to ANY of them.
Is Long Beach Island one of them?
If not, none.
stazsanity
02-19-10, 10:11 AM
Tortola is on the list for next year, along with St. Maarten and Curacao. What's good on Tortola?
We started with a tour of the island with a local taxi, which even though I know some are not in favor of, I always feel like it's a pretty good way to see the lay of the land. If nothing else, make sure you make it up to the top of the mountain- they have some of the most elaborate (legal, hand painted) grafitti along the way depicting the island's history. It's really neat to see.
Pretty big on Tortola (which we did) is renting a jeep and exploring. They have guided or self-guided tours...we weren't rebels we went with a group that started together and then dispersed indvidually, but I've heard either is fine.It was inexpensive and a ton of fun. If you're interested in which company we used, let me know, I have to go home and dig it out of the archives.
We didn't do the air tour, but we know people we had dinner with did and they loved it.
The most intriguing thing (and definitely not for everyone, we didn't do it) is this place called the "Bomba Shack" on Apple Beach. It's the site of what they call their "full moon parties." Every full moon, locals and tourists get together and pretty much go wild. We weren't there during a full moon, but it's quite the tourist draw.
allybear
02-19-10, 10:27 AM
Puerto Rico (where my girlfriend at the time was from)
Hispaniola - specifically, the Dominican Republilc (where my wife at the time was born)
St. Thomas and St. John
Generally, they're not high on my list of vacation destinations. I want to have more than a beach, even a gorgeous beach.
I'd say you get more than a beach from the Caribbean - it seems you get women! ;)
allybear
02-19-10, 10:30 AM
It seems to me like we've had this question once before... but JDP keeps a spread sheet of his questions so I guess it's a new one.
I thought we had yesterday's too, but maybe I'm psychic!
Anyway...islands. Three, technically (I think I forgot one the last time). In chronological order:
1, Nassau (airport and an afternoon at the straw market as part of the same vacation as 2 below)
2. Paradise Island (honeymoon with the ex-hole before he was an ex and possibly before he was a hole, but it's hard to say)
3. Anguilla (work)
I'd say Anguilla was the nicest, even though I had to work. :)
JL25and3
02-19-10, 10:34 AM
I'd say you get more than a beach from the Caribbean - it seems you get women! ;)No question, I'm very fond of the women, particularly from the Spanish-speaking islands. But one certainly doesn't have to go to an island to meet Latino women - I work in the Bronx, remember?
yankees2287
02-19-10, 10:41 AM
went on a cruise to grand cayman islands and jamaica
RhodyYanksFan
02-19-10, 11:13 AM
Does Key West count? Key Biscaine? I think they're considered to be in the Straits of Florida, or something like that, but I don't know if that counts as a sub-set of the Carribean.
If the Keys count, then I've been to those two. If they DON'T count, I haven't been to any.
If you've been to Key West, haven't you been to them all?
The ride to the resort to and from the airport was not for the weak stomached like myself - both in road issues and things I'd probably be better without seeing. ;) And then we got to the airport to go home and the Air Jamaica airport, flight staff and planes were all crap - we couldn't get off the island and they wouldn't give most of us rooms to stay overnight - they carted us to this nearby yucky Holiday Inn to eat dinner and we had to sit in a dining room with all our luggage...cart us back to the airport which was closed other than us waiting for the plane to come in and people were sleeping on a dirty floor..
when we finally got on the plane, a mechanic sprayed himself with some sort of acid in the face so we sat another two hours on there while they carted him off to the hospital and tried to fix the plane. we wound up flying back with no radar, VERY low, with many people with their heads between their legs ready to barf and worried about crashing..and their people were a-holes.
there was a lot more but you get the gist. :D the nice, peaceful, relaxing time we had at the resort was sort of ruined by the last day's experience. :D
Oh yeah, I went to Jamaica when I was in HS with my parents. Scary place to say the least. 1 1/2 hour drive from the airport to the hotel. Can't leave the hotel grounds because all the gangs, etc.
Martinique
Turks and Caicos
Guadalupe
RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees
02-19-10, 02:05 PM
Destinations:
New Providence (Nassau) 1960's, British Empire Nassau--saw Beach Boys live on Cable Beach, debut performance of Sloop John B.,also met Sean Connery--he stole our car by mistake.
St. Croix
St. Thomas
Jamaica
Cozumel
Grand Cayman (on business, yes, THAT kind of business)
Isla das Mujeres (off Cancun, JUST into the Caribbean)
Stat-Padders:
Balmoral Island(private hotel beach island, off Cable Beach)
Norman's Cay (uninhabited at time, float plane picnic, read the Wikipedia:Linky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay))
Hogg Island (uninhabited at time, now called Paradise Island, boat picnic)
Lyford Cay (really part of New Providence, but used to be separate)
Coral bump filmed in Thunderball, right next to where the jet plane mock-up was filmed underwater, no name as far as I remember--SCUBA trip after movie was done--yes, I was certified at age 11, at least Bahamian style)
Puerto Rico (changed planes for St. Thomas)
He's theMostinterestingmanintheworld.
jlw1980
02-19-10, 02:44 PM
Zero, and that isn't going to change any time soon.
johnnyyankee
02-19-10, 03:13 PM
None.....and it aint lookin good.
The rum.Rum flows like water on all of them...but St. Lucia may be the rum king. We tried 20 different ones at a rum distillary in half-shot glasses....for $3. Man, what a trip that was!
Evil Empire
02-19-10, 07:15 PM
St. Thomas and Water Island, St. Maarten, Puerto Rico, Antigua and the Bahamas. Pretty much my liking is in that order, and that's not a knock on the Bahamas.
Probably going to hit Grenada or Dominica in a year or so.
StingrayJG
02-19-10, 08:01 PM
In no particular order...
Jamaica (4 times)
St. Lucia (Honeymoon)
Domincan Republic
Bahamas
Antigua
Puerto Rico
Aruba
Bermuda (not really considered Caribbean but...)
Key West (if it counts)
MassNYYfan
02-19-10, 08:21 PM
All of them.
19!
Some visits were just a day trip off the cruise ship.
Loved different things about all of the islands:
Antigua
Aruba - 4 times
Bahamas (Nassau, Paradise Island) many times
Barbados
Cozumel - 3 times
Curacao - 4 times
Dominican Republic
Grand Cayman
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Labadee - (private island off the coast of Haiti)
Martinique
Puerto Rico - 3 times
Saint John - MOST RELAXING - 3 times
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin/Saint Maarten - 3 times
Saint Thomas - 4 times
Turks and Caicos
Least favorite -
Jamaica (been there 3 times to different areas)
My answer:
I've been to 8.
In order of best to worst (none were bad)
St. Croix (for my Honeymoon and 25th Anniversary)
Grand Cayman Island (cruise stop)
St Thomas (thrice - twice cruise stops & once a quick plane change)
St Maartin (cruise stop)
Buck Island (Off St Croix - Scuba trip)
Jamaica (cruise stop)
Cozumel (cruise stop)
Puerto Rico (thrice - a short cruise stop & a two long delayed plane layovers)
This concludes Friday's Question of the day
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RhodyYanksFan
02-20-10, 06:08 AM
Rum flows like water on all of them...but St. Lucia may be the rum king. We tried 20 different ones at a rum distillary in half-shot glasses....for $3. Man, what a trip that was!
Oh that's awesome. Rum is my favorite liquor. We went to the Tortoga plant on Grand Cayman and had some rum cake and bought some rum cream (like Baileys only with rum).
There's a really good book about the history of the region and how rum has played a pivotal role.
http://www.amazon.com/Rum-Story-Drink-Conquered-World/dp/0806525835/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266667691&sr=8-12
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