St Lucia, Pitons first.
Which mud bath is the one at the volcano. Whether the catamaran beats the coast road down to Soufriere. How long the drive up from the airport really takes. Every tour on the island, priced and rated.
Mud, peaks and rum: the St Lucia shortlist.
A volcano you drive into, a peak you climb before the heat arrives, a rainforest you cross on a wire, and the boat that beats the coast road. Six days most St Lucia weeks are built around.
Soufriere holds the half of St Lucia you flew for.
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The Pitons, the steaming crater, the botanical gardens and the waterfall everyone photographs sit within twenty minutes of each other. Getting there is the real decision: two hours down the west coast road, or the morning sail that arrives with the light still soft.
- 1Soufriere Volcano Experiencefrom $135
- 2Private Full Day Charter: St Lucia Boat Tour to Soufrierefrom $250
- 3Hot Chocolate Tours St. Luciafrom $160
Down the west coast under sail
Flat water the whole way, the Pitons growing all morning, and a swim stop at Anse Cochon that the road version never gets near.
Mud bath, waterfall, Pitons viewpoint
Warm grey mud that stains a swimsuit for good, a cold waterfall to rinse in, and lunch in Soufriere between the two.
Gros Piton with a guide
Stone steps and tree roots from the interpretive centre at Fond Gens Libre. A registered guide comes with every group and the heat sets the pace.
The tours St Lucia keeps selling out.
Every review →More travellers book these than anything else on the island. Here is what each one actually delivers on the day.
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St. Lucia Land and Sea Tour
Review of St. Lucia’s Land and Sea Tour, with volcano mud baths, waterfall, local lunch, Pitons views, snorkeling, transport tips, and value advice.
From · $115
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2
ATV Tour in St Lucia
from $107
3
St Lucia Customize Private Island Tour
from $130
4
St Lucia Full-Day Catamaran Sightseeing Cruise With Snorkeling
from $145
5
St Lucia Diamond Mineral and Mud Baths Plus Waterfall Adventure
from $159
6
Rainforest Hike and Waterfall Safari
from $66
7
Wow Tours St. Lucia (COVID-19 Certified)
from $92
8
Project Chocolat Tree to Bar Tour at Hotel Chocolat Saint Lucia
from $124
St Lucia parks its volcano at the roadside.
The crater floor above Soufriere still steams, and the grey mud below it is warm enough to sit in. You change in a hut, wade in, coat yourself, then rinse under the falls at Diamond. Bring a swimsuit you will not miss.
Almost every St Lucia tour collects you in the north.
Rodney Bay, Gros Islet and Cap Estate hold most of the island’s beds, so most operators start their day up there. What you book is rarely a north coast tour. It is an island day with a north coast pickup, and the run south is part of it.
From a beach shuttle to a chartered catamaran.
Every tour on the site, grouped by what it costs. A good St Lucia day starts well under fifty dollars.
Beach shuttles, the tram ride, market mornings and the short waterfall runs.
The island classics: mud baths, Gros Piton, the zip line circuits, catamaran day sails.
- 1St. Lucia Land and Sea Tourfrom $115
- 2ATV Tour in St Luciafrom $107
- 3St Lucia Customize Private Island Tourfrom $130
Private drivers, chartered boats and the long land-and-sea days that swallow a whole schedule.
Nowhere else has the mud, the peaks or the still.
Beaches and rum punch belong to the whole Caribbean. Sitting in a volcano, walking up a Piton and drinking what the Roseau valley distils belong to this island.
The Sulphur Springs Mud Bath
The road runs into the crater above Soufriere and stops beside pools of grey, sulphur-warm mud. You coat yourself, bake until it cracks, then rinse in the stream below. It smells of struck matches for hours afterwards and everybody does it anyway.
- 1St Lucia Diamond Mineral and Mud Baths Plus Waterfall Adventure★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 589 reviews
- 2Saint Lucia Sulphur Springs Rejuvenating Mud Bath Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 320 reviews
- 3Sulphur Springs Mud Bath and Toraille Waterfall Tour with Creole Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 122 reviews
Gros Piton
The bigger of the two peaks is the one you walk up. It starts at Fond Gens Libre with a registered guide, runs about four hours there and back, and is stone steps and tree roots the whole way. Leave at six if you want the summit before the cloud settles on it.
- 1Gros Piton Hike with Dannyboy & Co.★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 210 reviews
- 2Gros Piton Hike★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 89 reviews
- 3Gros Piton Hike★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 42 reviews
St Lucian Rum
The island distils a few miles inland from Marigot Bay, and a tasting runs from white overproof through the aged bottles that leave the valley in crates. Most trips pair it with the cocoa estates further up the same road.
- 1St Lucia ATV Tour : Waterfall, Plantation, Beach and Distillery★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 114 reviews
- 2St Lucia Rum Tasting and Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 91 reviews
- 3St Lucia Bamboo Rafting Experience (+Rum Tasting)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 28 reviews
Book these before you land at Hewanorra.
Most of St Lucia can be arranged at the hotel desk the night before. These cannot. They run on transfer schedules, guide rosters and a single morning departure.
- 01St. Lucia Private Airport & Hotel TransfersHewanorra sits at the far south end of the island. Rodney Bay is ninety minutes back up the coast road, and nothing scheduled meets a late flight.
- 02Gros Piton Hike with Dannyboy & Co.Nobody walks up Gros Piton alone. A registered guide from the interpretive centre goes with every group, and the cool early slots are taken first.
- 03St Lucia Full-Day Catamaran Sightseeing Cruise With SnorkelingThe full-day sail down the west coast leaves in the morning and does not run twice. Cruise-ship mornings fill it first.
Rain in St Lucia is warm, brief and no reason to stay in.
The wet season runs June to November and mostly turns up as an afternoon hour that has cleared by five. The mud bath does not care, the distillery is under a roof, and the rainforest is better dripping. Keep the beach day for tomorrow.
The best hour in St Lucia happens offshore.
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