Caribbean

The Caribbean charter season begins in mid-December and runs to late April. The two magnets are the British Virgin Islands, a chain of near-identical anchorages forty-five minutes apart that lets a Captain promise you a different beach every day, and the French island of St Barths, where the week between Christmas and New Year is the most expensive yachting week on Earth. South of that, the Grenadines offer quieter, more authentic cruising through Bequia, Mustique, Tobago Cays and Union. Caribbean charters are typically lower priced than Med equivalents of the same length, because most yachts reposition for the winter and need the bookings.