Saint Lucia · Beach & Island

St Lucia Customize Private Island Tour

5 Hours Round trip from Pickup service provided. Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Private customizable island tour of St. Lucia
  • 02 Scenic drive through Castries, villages, and coastal viewpoints
  • 03 Visit Soufrière, the Pitons, and the drive-in volcano area
  • 04 Enjoy a mud bath and see boiling sulphur water
  • 05 Explore the Botanical Gardens and Diamond Waterfall
  • 06 Sample local rum, spices, and island-made products
  • 07 See banana plantations, fishing villages, and Marigot Bay
  • 08 Private pickup and drop-off with air-conditioned transport

Discover St. Lucia your way on this private island tour, designed to showcase the places and experiences that interest you most. Travel through Castries and along the island’s scenic west coast with your driver-guide, taking in historic landmarks, fishing villages, banana plantations, panoramic viewpoints, and famous natural attractions including Soufrière, the Pitons, and Marigot Bay.

Depending on your preferred stops, your day can include the drive-in volcano, mud bath, Botanical Gardens, Diamond Waterfall, local rum sampling, beach time, and a local lunch by the bay. With private transport, pickup and drop-off, and a flexible route along the way, this is a relaxed and personalised way to experience the local side of St. Lucia.

Clients will be doing a tour of the volcano area, see the boiling sulphur water and doing the mudbath.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 5 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Included
Transport Included
Wheelchair access No
Cities Castries, Soufrière
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

Meeting with driver/tour guideDriving through the Castries market with a brief history given by the guide about the marketDriving through the area with the Derek Walcott square and Cathedral, and viewing other historical places in the area with history given by the guide.Elevated view of the city area and the extreme northern part of the island, inclusive the cruise port, the airport, etc. Then a view of the governor general house.This is where you have a view of the old barracks from the time of war, which was transformed into our community college and also seeing our national plant called "The Calabash Tree".An elevated view of one of the most beautiful bays in the entire caribbean and also where they filmed part of the original movie "Dr Doolittle", and where the British won the French for the island.Stopping by one of the largest banana plantation on the island, with a full explanation of the process the bananas go through and the history about the banana plantation.Driving through the village to see what a typical caribbean village looks like and stopping to get an elevated view of the village.Stopping in the area for free rum sampling of about 20 different types of local rum made on the island and sampling of other local products and spices made on the island also, ie. banana ketchup (which taste like honey mustard), banana bbq sauce, garlic sauce and many others,Driving through the local fishing village, also getting a history about the village from the guide and stopping to get an elevated view of the village.Driving on the outskirts of the rainforest reserve and stopping to get the first beautiful view of the twin peak pitons.Stopping to get an elevated view of the town of Soufriere, which was first conquered by the Frensch in the time of war. From that view, there is the view of the pitons and the volcano a distance away., we will also be driving through the town and being given the history of the town by driver/guide.Clients will be doing a tour of the volcano area, see the boiling sulphur water and doing the mudbath.Clients will be doing a tour of the Botanical gardens, where they will be seeing all the different kind of plants the island has and in there you get to see the Diamond waterfall, where part of the movie "Romance in the stone" will filmed.This where clients will be enjoying a fresh bath from the cool waterfall which is flowing from the rainforest area.Clients will be going to the Still Beach restaurant at the bay area to have a buffet style local lunch, with the view of the beach and the piton right in front. After lunch clients will be heading back to where they were originally picked up.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Pickup service provided. 2 cities · 5 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Hotel/port pickup and drop-off
  • Private tour
  • Cruise port pickup
  • Limited Local Beers
  • Limited Water
  • Limited Coke & Sprite

What's Not Included

  • Lunch is not included if you decide to have lunch as this is a private customized tour. If having lunch it can be at a minimum US$25 per person subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the volcano. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the Botanical Gardens. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the Waterfall. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the rum factory. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the Tet Paul Trail. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the Cocoa Plantation tour. Price is subject to change.
  • This is a private customized tour depending if you go to the Pigeon Island. Price is subject to change.

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • INFANT SEATS AVAILABLE
  • At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Provide Hotel Information For Pickup
  • We do pickups from private homes, villas, vacation rentals, Sapphire Beach Villa, Secrets St Lucia, etc. Pickup times can be changed by you but we always advise all client to start early to avoid all the crowds. FOR CRUISE SHIP PASSENGERS: We do advise to start tour early so we can avoid the rush get back to the cruise ship and for cruise ship who are arriving after our pickup time we do monitor the time your cruise ship arrives and our driver/tour guide will give you enough time to get out of the cruise ship to commence your tour.

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Pickup service provided.
Tour start
Pickup service provided.
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 5 hours finish where they began, in Pickup service provided..

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