5/5 Daniel K. 1 year ago on Google • 1134 reviews
Overall,
a
great
experience
and
absolutely
worth
the
price
of
admission.
A
few
small
negative
points,
but
they
are
small,
and
I'll
get
to
them
last.
First
of
all,
the
tour
is
half
bus
and
half
train
(which
one
is
first
depends
on
the
time
of
day),
I
recommend
starting
early
(by
bus),
to
avoid
the
crush
of
the
cruise
line
excursions.
You're
going
to
literally
circumnavigate
the
island.
Our
tour
started
by
bus
on
the
east
coast,
and
our
driver
/
tour
guide
was
extremely
knowledgeable,
affable,
and
forthcoming.
The
roads
are
narrow,
but
even
close
to
the
cliffs
i
was
never
worried.
You
get
to
see
the
REAL
St
Kitts,
not
just
the
tourist
spots.
So
you
get
to
see
wealth
and
extreme
poverty,
hear
about
slavery,
rebuilt,
and
freedom,
farming
and
technology,
old
ways
and
modernity.
We
then
transferred
to
the
train,
and
continued
our
tour
of
the
island
on
the
north
and
west
coast.
We
went
through
rainforest
and
plains,
through
abandoned
sugar
cane
plantations,
and
through
villages.
Sometimes
the
houses
and
shacks
are
literally
right
next
to
the
railroad,
so
close
that
you
can
almost
shake
hands
with
someone
lying
in
their
hammock.
The
poverty
is
astounding,
but
surprisingly,
the
people
all
seem
very
happy,
and
greet
the
train
with
a
smile
every
time
it
goes
by.
I
guess
that
is
the
benefit
of
living
in
a
paradise,
but
it
is
also
easy
to
imagine
how
horrible
slavery
on
a
sugar
cane
plantations
would
have
been.
The
train
also
features
"masquerade
dancers",
two
young
men
dressed
in
festival
attire,
displaying
for
the
tourists
what
it
would
have
been
like
100
years
ago
in
celebration.
And
the
train
also
has
unlimited
drinks,
which
brings
me
to
one
of
my
small
negative
points.
The
car
in
front
of
us
was
filled
with
a
group
of
obnoxiously
drunk
and
rowdy
Bros
who
took
full
advantage
of
the
unlimited
alcohol
and
made
more
noise
than
the
train
did.
It
is
people
like
that
that
give
America
a
bad
reputation.
The
train
is
a
narrow
gauge
train,
and
since
it
was
originally
designed
as
a
freight
line
and
not
a
passenger
line,
it
tends
to
lurch
quite
a
bit.
You
get
used
to
it
pretty
quickly,
but
I
recommend
you
sit
in
the
upper
level
of
the
car.
There
will
be
a
lot
more
swaying
movement,
but
there
is
also
fresh
air,
and
the
views
are
much
better!
Again,
overall,
it
was
absolutely
worth
taking
this
tour!
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