I’ll play.
Over the years we have thoroughly explored eastern Puerto Rico, St. John’s, Tortola, Nevis, and Barbados. In March we spent 10 nights self catering in an Airbnb cottage at the top of a steep hill over looking St. George’s, Grenada. Grenada is our favorite, hands down. The culture is very warm and friendly and seemly everyone takes real pride in their country, keeping the streets, rural roads, beaches, and forests clean, and often painting their homes in the colors of the Grenada’s flag. With a little exploring it was easy to find deserted beaches, unspoiled rain forest, several days of good hiking, and decent (not amazing, but better than most of the destinations listed above, excluding St. John’s) snorkeling. The capitol city, St. George’s is beautiful. The island is very safe, with low crime. Grenada is lush and grows much more of its produce than most Caribbean islands. Spices and chocolate are important local and export commodities. Grenada also appears to have a healthy small-scale fishing fleet. In other words, the food is very good. I’m a bit of a rum geek, so for me it was extra fun to be on island that is home to the River Antoine and Renegade distilleries. I can’t speak to the quality of the sailing or diving. The driving is terrifying (for reference, I largely learned to drive in NYC and I’ve driven on all of the islands listed above, and in East Africa, Spain, and Portugal) but we somehow avoided firery, catastrophic death.