How to get to the Caribbean
From the US and Canada with 3.5h flight time from the East coast and only 7h flight from Los Angeles and most European cities.
Many major European, American and Canadian cities offer direct flights to the Caribbean Islands with big airports like Barbados, St. Martin, St. Lucia or Martinique for instance.
From there to the small islands are good connections with local Air lines (commercial flights or private charters), ferries on some islands or private boats.
In the Caribbean, there is sunshine, blue sky and the famous turquoise sea all year round, so it’s worth the trip.
Barbados is the base to supply smaller islands in the Southern Caribbean; from St. Martin we supply the French Caribbean and surrounding islands in the Northern Caribbean region.
"The Caribbean, also called “West Indies” or “Antilles” comprises a group of islands that looks like a bended chain between Florida in the North with the most Northern Caribbean Island of Cuba, and Venezuela in the South with Trinidad and Tobago on the Eastern end and the Netherland Antilles Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao as the most Southern Caribbean Islands on the Western end.
Some islands are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some are bordering on one side to the Caribbean Sea and on the other side to the North Atlantic Ocean. Those are offering a wide variety of locations from the Caribbean beach feel to the Atlantic ocean sand dunes or high cliffs with savage waves.
Some of the Caribbean Islands are flat with white beaches like Anguilla, Barbados and many of the Grenadine islands, others have high mountains and tropical jungle and flower forests like Martinique, Dominica or St. Lucia.
They are all still on the Northern part of the globe between the 10th and the approximate 25th latitude.
Most of the islands are independent countries with their own governments and their own customs rules.
They had all been former colonies of either Great Britain, France, Spain or the Netherlands and the official languages of the islands are still those of the former colonialists. Some are still over seas departments like the French islands of St. Martin, St. Barts, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
The Ethnic groups are a mix of mostly Afro-Caribbean, some European and some interesting looking groups with Afro Caribbean/European ancestors. In Dominica there are still a lot of the original Caribbean inhabitants the Caribbean Islands - the Amerindians (Arawak, Caribs, Taínos) In Trinidad there are also a lot of inhabitants with Chinese and Indian roots.
Northern Caribbean
Northern Caribbean Islands are close together and many can be reached by ferry boats.
St. Martin, our 2nd base in the French Antilles, in the Northern part of the Caribbean Island chain, we supply productions on the French islands and
surrounding islands:
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St. Barts by ferry boat (40 min) or small plane - 15 min flight.
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Guadeloupe and Martinique from the small French Caribbean airport in Grand Case/St. Martin, as well as to
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Anguilla with only 18 min via ferry boat and to the remote islands of Saba & Eustatius.
From St. Martin/Sint Maarten we have easy access to the near by islands of Antigua & Barbuda, British and US Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis.
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Belize as well, are easy to be reached from the main airport in Sint Maarten.
