The line up for the annual Jazz Festival has been announced and it promises to be another winner. Star billing goes to Lionel Richie on the Sunday evening at Pigeon Island.
Other stars in the line up include, so far;
- Hugh Masekela, again on Sunday at Pigeon Island
- Kirk Franklin, Keri Hilson and Alison Marquis Nonet on Saturday again at Pigeon Island
- Gipsy Kings and Ziggy Marley on Friday night again at Pigeon Island
- Joshua Redman, Ronald “Boo” Hinkson, Mario Canonge and Luther François at the Gaiety on the Wednesday and Thursday nights
We expect this line up will be added to in the coming months.
For those of you who do not recall Lionel Richie co-wrote ”We are the World” with Michael Jackson back in 1985. Music to move the world and in May the man will be moving St Lucia. Get your tickets before they sell out. If you want hear something to move you then follow these links to hear this wonder tune which sold over 20million copies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwblvqir-s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7fPpxAnuM
It was awarded numerous honors—including three Grammy Award, one American Music Award and a People’s Choice Award. If only for this achievement its worth coming to see St Lucia to see this legend.
If you book Akasha, St Lucia’s best villa rental for your vacation and to indulge in this music fest don’t forget the villa is only a 5 minute drive from Pigeon Island, where all the main artists will be performing. When you sit in the audience you can see Akasha on the hill behind the main stage
The event has also signed a deal with Digicel who will be the main sponsors for the next three years. The year of the Dragon has certainly got of to great start! So book your St Lucia Vacation the Akasha way and get to enjoy this music fest on your doorstep.
St Lucia has so much more than just beaches and sunshine – its where so many people want to vacation or move to. Think about all that sunshine and constant vitamin D – no winter syndrome here.
Living Abroad approached Akasha last year and asked if we would be happy to feature in their magazine – as ever we are always happy to be featured in quality publications. Check out the magazine on Page 51.
So if you have ever dreamed about vacationing or living in paradise then this publication is for you.
Here, in St Lucia you can enjoy the rain forest, mountains, volcano and waterfalls – plus your normal paradise features like clear blue sea, golden sunsets and sunshine every day. Oh don’t forget the local wildlife – truly amazing.
Here the climate is so good anyone can grow everything, mother nature gives it all to you on a plate. No wonder the Arawak tribes came here.
So as you can see your Caribbean vacation in St Lucia can lead to a new way of life – what you might find in paradise.
Just announced that State-owned Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL), is moving to widen its airlift influence on Caricom travel when it launches a daily service to St Lucia out of Port of Spain in two weeks.
This is great as this is a direct flight and will therefore mean no flying to Barbados to switch flights. The flights are scheduled to start from Friday February 10, will be operated by the airline’s new state-of-the-art ATR-72-600 turbo prop aircraft with a 68-seat capacity.
The flight will depart Piarco International at 1.45 pm arriving at the George F Charles airport in Castries at 2.50 pm.
Following a half-hour turnaround, the return flight (BW 435) will depart St Lucia at 3.25 pm arriving in Trinidad at 4.30 pm.
Now that’s what you call a win for all concerned. So now folks from Trinidad will find it easier to come on vacation in St Lucia and of course St Lucian folk get to visit their friends for the weekend without wasting time in the terminal in Barbados. What is not clear is what the fares will be but lets hope that they are reasonable.
For guests from further a field this means that they can now enjoy more of the Caribbean as it improves their ability to move around when they visit the Caribbean – many tourists like to visit more than one location on their vacation.
The Daily Telegraph in UK published an article about why you should head to St Lucia for your holiday. Below we quote the reasons they feel this is a must visit place.
“For the scenery as much as to flop on the beach. Much of St Lucia is mountainous and covered in a blanket of thick rainforest, and the south-west corner has arguably the most arresting sight in the whole Caribbean: of the green and precipitous volcanic cones of the Petit Piton and Gros Piton rising out of a blue ocean. That is not to say that St Lucia doesn’t have some lovely beaches – they are golden in the north, and mostly silvery in the volcanic south. It’s just that they are rather outshone by the island’s other natural assets.
St Lucia is also as good a choice as anywhere in the Caribbean for secluded, upmarket, romantic places to stay. Your hotel room might have an outdoor garden shower, a private plunge pool, a hammock for two on its balcony, and a view of the thrusting Pitons. Nature and fertility will be all around you.
Several hotels have featured prominently in the US and, more recently, UK versions of The Bachelor television series, and wherever you go, you trip over wedding ceremonies and loved-up honeymooning couples. That said, a week on St Lucia doesn’t have to be all about candlelit meals for two every night. There are also good family-oriented hotels, and you can party the night away in Rodney Bay Village, the island’s only resort.
Though St Lucia was badly hit by Hurricane Tomas in late October 2010 and you can still see the effects of the storm in roadside landslips, from a visitors’ point of view everything is back to normal.”
We are grateful to The Telegraph for being so factually correct. Its worth noting that Le Sport, which is located just below Akasha has imported white sand for the beach and it looks stunning so you can get a white beach here in St Lucia. So there are many reasons to visit St Lucia for your holiday.
Akasha in St Lucia has teamed up with FACE to face – Day Spa to offer its guests the very best of Spa treatments in the villa. The treatments and consultation will be delivered by St Lucia’s most renowned Spa Treatment specialist. In fact the owner of FACE is a consultant to many of the leading resorts in St Lucia and the UK.
F.A.C.E. to face Day Spa is situated in the heart of Rodney Bay Marina, Saint Lucia.
Tracey Farrin, the owner, is a independent consultant with over 26 years experience in the spa and well being industry. Tracey has the expertise and vast knowledge to enable you to trust that the treatment will be first class.
The variety of what treatments you can enjoy goes from a Full Body Scrub to The Reef Wrap to Waxing to a Foot Massage – so you name it, Tracy, and her team can handle it. You just need to chill.
Akasha lets you book any treatment before arrival, you can enjoy the treatment in the privacy of the villa, any of its terraces or by the pool side. You can get a flavor of what it might be like if you watch the video on our home page. Now that’s what you call chilling Caribbean style. So when you Rent a Villa in St Lucia your in safe hands at Akasha. Feel free to include these Spa treatments as part of your inclusive holiday in St Lucia – Akasha style.
St Lucia vacations recently got better – if that was possible. Not only can you enjoy all that this paradise offers but you now can get to another super island – Mustique.
The Mustique Company launched a nonstop 25-minute flight between St. Lucia’s Hewanorra Airport and Mustique in July. The new flights are expected to improve access to Mustique from key U.S. gateways. The 18-passenger flights depart daily on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and complement existing flights between Barbados and Mustique, which operate twice daily, seven days a week.
If you want to take advantage of this opening up of the Caribbean area then we can book the flights for you when you decide to make Akasha part of your St Lucia vacation.
The Caribbean tourist market needs more initiatives like this to expand the total tourist market and this will help each island grow, create new jobs for the local communities and show the world what it has to offer.
Many of us who live in St Lucia know this is like paradise on earth and want to preserve it. So we need to make sure that we educate tourist to take nothing but happy memories and leave nothing but footprints in the sand. That way, future generations can enjoy and see what we have seen.
St Lucia’s tourism industry is booming. So much so that British Airways, one of the islands leading transit links is increasing its flights to St Lucia!
St Lucia is positioned to break its 2005 record for tourist arrivals following British Airways’ decision to increase its airlift to the island.
Public relations manager with the Tourist Board John Emmanuel, says the development is ground breaking.
“We now have as never before a daily non-stop service from British Airways to St Lucia. That means that we are in a position to see a 40 per cent increase as far as capacity to St Lucia,” he said.
“The United Kingdom remains the second largest source market for St Lucia. Last year alone, figures out of that market totalled almost 70 thousand visitors; for us it is an important gateway.”
Presently, tourism accounts for approximately 64 per cent of St Lucia’s gross domestic product (GDP). With the potential increase in tourist arrivals, it is anticipated that the sector’s contribution to GDP will increase.
British Airways’ new daily non-stop flights from London Gatwick to Hewanorra International Airport began on March 27.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/British-Airways-starts-non-stop-flights-to-St-Lucia_8641379#ixzz1JpTsGuhr
