I visited St Lucia when I was on a P&O cruise from Southampton. The beaches were beautiful and the feeling of serenity was explosive.
However, I would not go back here again as something didn’t feel quite right, as if the locals did not like tourists being there – very unwelcoming – especially if you compare the feel of the island to Barbados, which is very welcoming and warming.
We wandered away from the port the day we docked there and that was a shock, many people just sleeping on street corners, jumping out of hedges at us trying to sell drugs, the poverty we saw that evening was an eye opener.
Having said that, most areas of towns that have a port are not going to be the prettiest or touristic, I live in Malaga and I can’t say that the port there is ideal for a night out!
We spent only one day in St Lucia so perhaps we need to give it a fair trial :)