A Caribbean Hideaway On Mayreau Island In The Grenadines

M ayreau hosts The                class. Another reason for basing   Caribbean Island Resort,       yourself here is that the famous,  the Saltwhistle Bay Club,      beautiful Tobago Cays are no       which is a real Caribbean             distance away at all.              Hideaway in the Grenadines                                                                                     You will be greeted with a tray    Your arrival at Saltwhisle Bay is     of rum punch, and your luggage     by boat, having been picked up at     will disappear, to reappear again  the airport on Union Island, and      in your bedroom, one of just ten   you are taken to Mayreau Island.      rooms in stone cottages,           Real holiday hideaways very often     scattered around behind a screen   are only accessible by boat, and      of palm trees in a 22 acre         as you cross the channel to           tropical garden. This is a simple  Mayreau you will realise, if you      and definitely barefoot type of    didn’t before what a small island     place, but don’t be misled         it is.                                because it is also extremely                                             comfortable but very low key. The  Mayreau in fact is the smallest       cottages at Saltwhistle bay have   inhabited island in the               been built using local wood and    Grenadines, being less than two       stone, and all feature king sized  square miles in size, with a          beds, with a spacious bed sitting  population of about 250 living in     area with an ensuite bathroom.     a village on the south west of        Accessible from each room is a     the island. Saltwhistle Bay           semi private shaded and furnished  Resort occupies the entire            roof terrace.                      northern end of Mayreau island                                           and the unspoilt beach shore of       It has to be described as a real   the windward side, which is           Caribbean Hideaway because it is   considered by many windsurfers        at least two plane journeys and a  and kite boarders to be world         boat ride from home, so it is      isolated. There is a little           romantic Caribbean beach, with     activity but not much, and the        good swimming. This really is the  people who come here, do so to        classic Caribbean barefoot         escape the speed and noise of         seclusion and attracts             life in the twenty first century.     independent travellers,            Most people who come to this          honeymooners and visiting          Caribbean island resort come to       yachtsmen.                         read, relax, swing in a hammock                                          and just generally enjoy the          Two things still to mention about  natural tropical life of a            this Caribbean Island resort       totally undeveloped tropical          which relate to tnings close by.   paradise. The bay is a perfect        The first is the Tobago Cays, the  half moon of white sand and           five uninhabited dream islands,    turquoise blue water, and must be     and Saltwhistle Bay Club is the    one of the very best in the           clsest resort to them, being just  Caribbean                             15 minutes from the Cays and a                                           snorkelling paradise. Not only     To summarise the key features of      that you can spend an afternoon    Saltwhistle Bay.                      on Petite Tobaque which is where                                         Johnny Depp was marooned in the    This is a very remote small           movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’.  Grenadines Hotel set on the                                              smallest inhabited Grenadines         The second thing is that you       Island of Mayreau, with a bar         should visit the village on the    which can be lively with visiting     other side of Mayreau where you    yachtsmen, and an excellent stone     will be able to eat some very      and palm thatched garden              good food at great value prices.   restaurant which presents three                                          good meals every day. It is an        This Caribbean Island resort will  intimate, friendly hotel on a         not be for you if you like five    star pampering but if you see         size="-2">http://www.caribbean-va  yourself as a traveller as            cationspots.com/categories/St-Vin  opposed to a holidaymaker then        cent-and-The-Grenadines/this Caribbean Hideaway could be      a>                                 perfect.                                                                                                                                          For more information about Saint       onspots.com/categories/St-Vincent     background-color: #F5F7FB;         -and-The-Grenadines/"                 border-left: #BAC9FF 1px solid;    title="http://www.caribbean-vacat     border-right: #BAC9FF 1px solid;   ionspots.com/categories/St-Vincen     margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom:    t-and-The-Grenadines/"                10px;" valign="top"                target="_blank">                    color="#001000"                        About the Author: Gordon Steven writes about Caribbean Vacation Spots as well as authoring several articles about Worldwide Vacation Spots and he recommends in Kenya Safaris. 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