RB said:
We are considering Nevis...we are golfers but not "rabid" about golf.
Nevis was the first caribbean island we visit (well, technically Antigua but the first night was on Nevis ;-).
- You want to rent a car.
- Unless you want to have a "McDonalds experience", you don't stay at the Four Seasons.
- It's a very lush island, which also means a lot of fauna.
- It's very quiet, laid back, living in the yesterday type of island.
- They have turned the old sugar plantations into high-end accomodation with excellent restaurants. Worth recommendation for both sleep and food.
- The beaches are beautiful and you can pretty much have one of your own.
St. Kitts is more developed and we just did a day trip there. With the car rental is was possible to have a car there as well so we drove around the island, had an excellent lunch at one of the plantations (and had our car replaced while doing so, it was overheating) and returned to Nevis.
Triple the greenness of St. Barth, add a few beaches and the lack of excitement from Anguilla and you've got Nevis.
I would rather visit Nevis than St. Maarten or Grand Cayman but it's no St. Barth for sure. We have thought about visiting it again but it has never matched the flights and we like fauna when it sleeps at night (our home fauna is quite different, I saw my first cockroach in St. Barth).