St Kitts fits in a day. Nevis takes the ferry.
Which island tour really stops at Timothy Hill. What the crater hike does to your legs. Whether the old sugar railway is worth the fare. Reviews of every tour sold on both islands.
1The whole islandFull Island Panoramic Tour of St KittsTimothy Hill, Black Rocks and the windward coast in one loop. The booking almost everyone makes first.
2Off the tarmacATV Tour of St KittsCane tracks and gut crossings on a quad. Muddy by eleven, which is the point.
3Over the canopySt. Kitts Zipline ExperienceCables strung across Wingfield gut, high above the rainforest the plantations never cleared.
4Up the craterSt.Kitts Volcano Hike To Mt. Liamuiga (Highest Peak On Island)Three thousand feet of wet forest to the rim of Mount Liamuiga. Start at seven or not at all.
5The sugar lineSt Kitts Scenic Train Tour (Hotel or Ship)The narrow gauge that hauled cane to the factory, now an open upper deck and a rum punch.
St Kitts for the driving, Nevis for the quiet, Basseterre for the walk.
A volcano at one end and a two mile sandbar at the other, a Georgian capital in between, and a sister island close enough to see the roofs. Six places to book from, and the best day out in each.
The tours St Kitts sells more of than anything else.
Every St Kitts review →More travellers take these than any other day out on the two islands, and each one earns the slot for a different reason.
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Full Island Panoramic Tour of St Kitts
See St. Kitts by air-conditioned minivan, from Brimstone Hill and Black Rocks to Romney Manor, Basseterre, and Timothy Hill.
From · $68
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The Grand Tour of St. Kitts
from $75
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ATV Tour of St Kitts
from $110
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St. Kitts Zipline Experience
from $99
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Palms Court Gardens and Restaurant Day Pass
from $25
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Liamuiga Natural Farm Tour – St.Kitts’ Coffee Farm
from $161
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Self Drive 4×4 Off Road Jeep Wrangler & Beach Chill
from $85
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St.Kitts Volcano Hike To Mt. Liamuiga (Highest Peak On Island)
from $69
Round the island, up the crater, or off the road entirely.
St Kitts is sixty eight square miles with one ring road, a mountain in the middle and cane tracks running off both sides. Three ways to cover it, what each costs to board, and how much of the day it eats.
The Narrows is two miles wide and most of the good days cross it.
Catamarans out of Port Zante for Nevis, snorkel stops on the reef off Shitten Bay, speedboats down the peninsula to Cockleshell. The channel between the two islands is calm enough that almost nobody gets sick on it.
What a day out on St Kitts actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Plenty of the best hours on these islands cost less than lunch at a resort.
Town walks, beach transfers, short peninsula runs and the half day loops that leave after breakfast.
The standards: full island tours, the crater hike, catamaran days and the Nevis crossing.
Private drivers, chartered boats, the railway with the drinks car, and the once a trip splurges.
Three things you can only do on St Kitts.
Beaches and rum punch turn up on every island in the chain. A working colonial railway, a fortress the British called the Gibraltar of the West Indies and a crater you climb down into do not.
The St Kitts Scenic Railway
Thirty inches between the rails, laid between 1912 and 1926 to haul cane from the estates down to the factory at Basseterre. The factory closed in 2005 and the line kept running, now with double deck carriages and a bar. It clings to the north coast on steel trestles over the guts, which is the part nobody expects.
- 1St Kitts Scenic Train Tour (Hotel or Ship)★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 · 135 reviews
- 2Saint Kitts Train Trek★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 60 reviews
- 3St. Kitts Scenic Train Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 · 58 reviews
Brimstone Hill Fortress
Enslaved Africans cut and hauled the volcanic stone for more than a century to build this, and British gunners held it until a French siege in 1782 took it in a month. The bastions still look down on Sandy Point and, on a clear morning, across to Saba, Statia, St Barths and Nevis at once.
- 1Scenic Romney Manor & Timothy Hill or Panoramic Brimstone Hill★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 125 reviews
- 2St Kitts Sightseeing Tour to Brimstone Hill Fortress with Beach Visit★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 31 reviews
- 3Brimstone Hill Fortress & Beach Shore Excursion★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 · 5 reviews
The Mount Liamuiga Crater
The Kalinago name means fertile land, and the summit is at 3,792 feet under cloud most afternoons. The walk up goes through old estate land into rainforest and then onto a rim you can rope down into, where the crater floor holds its own small forest and a warm lake after heavy rain.
- 1Liamuiga Natural Farm Tour – St.Kitts’ Coffee Farm★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 196 reviews
- 2St.Kitts Volcano Hike To Mt. Liamuiga (Highest Peak On Island)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 194 reviews
- 3Hike St. Kitts: Highest peak Mount Liamuiga Volcano★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 136 reviews
Four bookings on these islands that will not wait.
Most of St Kitts can be arranged over breakfast at the hotel. These four run on ferry timetables, guide numbers and a cruise schedule that decides how busy the whole island is that morning.
- 01St.Kitts Volcano Hike To Mt. Liamuiga (Highest Peak On Island)Crater guides take small groups and start before seven to beat the cloud. There are only a handful of them on the island.
- 02Sugar Train Tour & Drinks|Pick-Up &Drop Off From Cruise PortThe railway runs a set number of departures a week, timed around ships in port. Miss the run and the next one may be days away.
- 03Nevis Getaway with Free Time at Pinney’s BeachA Nevis day is built around the ferry or a charter across The Narrows. Both leave when they leave.
- 04St. Kitts Full-Day Catamaran Cruise to NevisOne boat, a fixed number of seats, and the whole ship crowd wanting the same afternoon.
When four ships are in, the island splits in two.
Basseterre takes about eight thousand passengers on a heavy morning and almost all of them go to the same four places. The other half of St Kitts stays as quiet as it is in September. Head up into the forest, along the windward coast, or onto the ferry.
By place, on both islands
Basseterre, the fortress, the peninsula, the crater, then Nevis.
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St Kitts Traditional Lunch & Half Day Island Tour
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Mindfulness Rainforest Hike, Forest Bathing, Volcanic Hot Springs
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See It All {The Local Behind The Scenes Tour Of Nevis}
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Private transfer from Park Hyatt & water taxi to R.L.B Airport
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