Useful tips to prepare your stay in Saint Lucia

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  • Airport transfers by taxi cost about 30€ from Hewanorra International Airport (located in the vicinity of Vieux-Fort) and 100€ from Vigie Airport (located in the vicinity of Castries)
  • Buses to Vieux-Fort and Soufrière pass quite regularly on the main road. The waiting time is shorter in the morning than in the evening. There are no buses on Sunday and public holidays.
  • Rates include the first morning’s breakfast package – tea, coffee, milk, cereals, fruits, bread, butter and jams plus a pack of basic cooking supplies of oil, salt, sugar, etc.
  • All bedrooms are equipped with 220 and 110V European, American and English plugs.
  • The rooms are cleaned and the bed linen and towels are changed once a week.
  • Wi-Fi connection is available and, upon request, a laptop can be provided for a short-time.
  • If you have an unlocked quadband and triband cell phone and buy a local SIM card (available from local shops for about EC$15), you will be able to make local calls without being charged at international rates. Otherwise, we could let you use our cell phone to make local calls for a small compensation as we don’t have any unlimited packages here.
  • Except in supermarkets, tax-free stores and some restaurants, there are still very few places where credit cards are accepted in Saint Lucia. To pay for your expenses in local currency, if you tell your bank in advance what dates you will be traveling to Saint Lucia and check that your payment limit will allow you to do so, all you have to do is withdraw Eastern Caribbean dollars from an ATM in Saint Lucia (there are quite a few in the cities and at the airport). If you want to avoid paying bank fees when withdrawing money in local currency, the best is to use a prepaid withdrawal card. In any case, do not buy Lucian currency before your departure. Of course, you could also pay everything in US dollars on the spot and leave it up to your contacts to set the exchange rate, but this would often be much more expensive.