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From: Don Wiss on 23 Jan 2010 09:49
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Brynjulf Barexstein <brex(a)online.no> wrote:

>Can you remember; did you go to the beach directly in front of the Anchorage
>Yacht Club on Union Island? Any memories on how it was? I am asking of two
>reasons; we are travelling with small kids and therefore we will have focus
>on swimming and beachlife most of the time,

Hi Brynjulf,

I don't remember the Anchorage Yacht Club at all. I stayed at the Clifton
Beach Hotel. (Which I see wasn't in my journal, but now is.)

If there were any nice beaches on the island I would have taken pictures of
them. It isn't an island of beaches. Note that the catamarans take people
to beaches on other little islands.

Union Island is tiny. Tourism is low. There is only catchment water, at
least back in 2001 when I was there. I find it odd that you are making it a
destination.

> and also because I am very much
>a beach-freak myself, always looking for the ultimate perfect beach, with
>soft sands, no litter, no sharp coral or rocks etc etc.

To be a world class beach more than that is needed. It needs to be a cove,
so when you look out you have some view besides the expanse of the ocean.
The cove also makes the waters calm. And you need palm trees a little
beyond the beach for shade.

Here is a beach that meets these requirements:
http://donwiss.com/pictures/Les-Saintes-2003/h0010.htm

Little Dix Bay in Virgin Gorda also meets these requirements, but for $$$.

Don <www.donwiss.com/pictures/carib> (e-mail link at page bottoms).
From: Don Wiss on 23 Jan 2010 09:56
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Brynjulf Barexstein <brex(a)online.no> wrote:

>It looks absolutely wonderful. But one question: Is all appartments on the
>first floor, nor ground floor directly in the sand? You see we are looking
>for a place ground floor, so that the kids can run up and down to the beach,
>with no staircases, verandas etc.

One place that would have been ideal for you is the Rendezvous Bay Hotel on
Anguilla. You could have been on the ground floor of a villa right on the
beach. Prices were not exhorbitant. But, alas, they sold out and the place
is becoming very expensive condos:

http://www.rendezvousbay.com/Rendezvous_Bay.html

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
From: K on 23 Jan 2010 22:14


Brynjulf Barexstein wrote:
> Hi K and thanks for your advice.
> It looks absolutely wonderful. But one question: Is all appartments
> on the first floor, nor ground floor directly in the sand? You see we
> are looking for a place ground floor, so that the kids can run up and
> down to the beach, with no staircases, verandas etc.
> Their webpage doesn`t say anything about this but it looks like it is
> the restaurant that is in the front line in the sand, and not the
> appartments. Can you recall this?
> Thanks,
> Brynjulf
>
> "K" <Kiernan(a)here.there> skrev i melding
> news:hjdfi0$14hq$1(a)adenine.netfront.net...
>> Brynjulf Barexstein wrote:
>>> Hello from Norway.
>>> I am planning to go to Union Island in the Grenadines for 2-3 weeks
>>> next winter, with familiy and small kids.
>>> Planning to stay in Anchorage Yacht Club, as it is situated directly
>>> on the beach. Maybe rent a villa on Palm Island close by for some
>>> days also. Any experiences, advices etc?
>>> I am especially interested in how the beach in front of Anchorage
>>> Yacht Club is.
>>>
>>> And maybe anyone can tell me how the beach on the east side of Palm
>>> Island is (that is where the villas are)? Seems on Google Earth that
>>> there is quite a bit of coral or rocks in the water, maybe difficult
>>> to swim?
>>> We`re also considering going to Eleuthera in the Bahamas, but we
>>> got a little worried about unstable weather that far north in Dec /
>>> Jan. Anyone been there in the winter?
>>>
>>> Otherwise I would appreciate any good advice for a house / cottage /
>>> villa or anything with cooking possibilites, situated directly on a
>>> perfect beach with no big waves, (due to the kids`swimming),
>>> anywhere in the Caribbean, with a max price ca. 400 US dollars per
>>> day. Thanks,
>>> Brynjulf
>>
>> This is the only place we've stayed in the Grenadines, and we loved
>> it there even during a damaging (rare for the southern
>> Caribbean).hurricane. http://www.gembeachresort.com/rooms.htm The
>> units are apartments rather than villas, but the bay is gorgeous,
>> the surf is gentle, and as far as i know it's the only hotel on the
>> bay. There is a small supermarket just down the hill, and an ocean
>> beach is also just a walk away. If you do happen to end up visiting
>> Grenada, look up a man named
>> Mandoo for a tour you won't soon forget.
>>
>> good luck,
>> Keith
>>
>>
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It's as the pictures depict, a 100 ft or so trot to the beach. I don't know
the names of the places, and when we were there the hurricane had the beach
in and on the houses, but there are a long line of cottages right on the
beach at Grand Anse. I don't know if cottages is the right term, but if you
look up Grand Anse beach in Grenada you'll find them - they're all part of
some resort.



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