Photo Of The Day: Sunset In Grenada

by Chris Owen on

This Photo of the Day, titled “Sunset in Grenada,” comes from Gadling Flickr pool member Gus NYC who captured the image using an Olympus E-PL1.

Grenada, also known as the “Island of Spice” because of the production of nutmeg and mace crops, is an island country consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.

Grenada is 344 square kilometers (133 square miles) with an estimated population of 110,000 and is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

For more information on Grenada, one of our 10 budget-friendly Caribbean destinations see Elizabeth Seward’s “Exploring Grenada: Do As Locals Do” here on Gadling.

Upload your best shots to the Gadling Group Pool on Flickr. Several times a week we choose our favorite images from the pool as Photos of the Day.

Daily Pampering: Vacationing on your own private Caribbean island

by Melanie Nayer on

Welcome to Mustique, a 1,400-acre private island in the Grenadines established with the most discriminating travelers in mind. If the typical Caribbean resorts just won’t do, rent yourself the island and enjoy a vacation catered, quite literally, to you. There are 72 designer villas on Mustique ranging in size from two to nine bedrooms and each feature different interior designs and views of the island. You’ll have access to your own on-island restaurant, bar, spa, and concierge service.

Getting to the island is nothing short of luxurious. Take a flight to Barbados, then board the Mustique Company’s privately-owned 18 seat Twin Otter aircraft, which flies you directly to the island.

Each villa is available for weekly rentals that range in price from $4,250 to $150,000 a week, including a full staff and golf cart-type vehicle to get you around the island.

Romantic island inns

by Brenda Yun on

With Valentine’s Day approaching, the internet is teeming with romantic getaways. Forbes.com recently came out with an article about America’s most romantic places to visit, and now Coastal Living writer Steve Millburg some of his own advice about where to spend a romantic island holiday. Unfortunately, I find Millburg’s “Top 10 romantic island inns” list rather disjointed and not fully comprehensive enough to qualify as an accurate Top 10 list.

These are the places Millburg identifies in the top ten:

  1. Petit St. Vincent, Grenadines
  2. The Inn on Peaks Island, Maine
  3. The Inn at Mama’s Fish House, Maui, Hawaii
  4. The Collier Inn, Useppa Island, Florida
  5. Hotel del Coronado and Glorietta Bay Inn, Coronado Island, California
  6. English Country Garden Bed & Breakfast, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
  7. Casita de Maya, Cozumel, Mexico
  8. MacKaye Harbor Inn, Lopez Island, Washington
  9. A Water’s Edge Retreat, Kelleys Island, Ohio
  10. Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Jekyll Island, Georgia

I understand that as a magazine intended for American readers interested in coastal living, the list may need to be limited to destinations within arm’s reach of the mainland and it appears to cover the important regions in the U.S., but I would like to think this list would try to be as realistic as possible too. Starting with an inn in the Grenadines, however, Petit St. Vincent at $675 a night doesn’t just qualify as a “splurge,” but a costly investment I imagine few readers can or will be able to afford. The rest of the destinations cost within $150-300 per night.

While I’d like to think that seven of the world’s most romantic islands are in the United States, I’m almost POSITIVE that there are much more noteworthy romantic island hideaways that Millburg doesn’t account for here. I mean, if Maui qualifies as an romantic island, then what about the Maldives, St. Kitts, Bora Bora, Sardinia, Corsica, Korcula, Bali, or New Zealand while we’re at it!

The more I read these kinds of lists, the more I realize how little readers are able to expand their horizons with the content they are given. I would love to see travel writers like Millburg stretch the reader’s imagination by going global rather than staying local and regional.