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A 4-star beachfront inn in Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica, holding a Hold The Throne eco rating of 5/5. Verified for food waste recycling, garden, local sourcing and waste management, and scoring 4.5/5 from 359 guest reviews.
Built by the Grizzle family in 1983, Charela Inn runs its own working farm and a farm-to-table restaurant that has been the heart of the property since day one. Guests swim from a private beach, forage herbs from the garden, and drink filtered rainwater straight from the tap.
How Flomarine compares with the other verified eco-stays in St Vincent, area by area.
Every claim below was checked in person — walking the farm, opening the solar room, meeting the family. The one redacted line is what the film couldn't tell you.
We rate honestly, so you only book when it genuinely fits. Every verified stay gets its watch-outs — not just its highlights.
Rooms sit at the top of the price band — if you're watching pennies, this stay will test that.
Only 5 rooms — no mega-pool, spa or 24-hour room service. That's the charm.
There's no full restaurant on site — plan your own meals and day-to-day running.
Dasheen is the flagship crop and has been formally declared the Blue Gold crop of St Vincent and the Grenadines, exported to the UK and France. Breadfruit is the other pillar, and the lineage is real: the Botanic Gardens in Kingstown were founded in 1765 and still hold a sucker descended from the breadfruit Captain Bligh landed in 1793. The honest gap is that no St Vincent specific food import figure could be verified. CARICOM as a region imports more than 60 per cent of what it eats, with some member states above 80 per cent, but we will not pin a regional number to one country. The crop worth going for is sea moss, and it is newer than people assume. Eucheuma cottonii was introduced to the Grenadines in 2004 through a 4H project led by Ann Harvey on Union Island, reaching Mayreau in 2014, Canouan in 2018 and Bequia in 2020. Before Hurricane Beryl the industry was valued at around $2.2 million with 60 plus active cultivators. It is line farmed in the sea, so it uses no fresh water, no land and no feed, which on islands with no rivers is close to the ideal crop. The SeaMoss Association of St Vincent and the Grenadines, a community based organisation founded in 2023, opened a storefront and interpretative centre at the Gingerbread on Admiralty Bay in Bequia on 19 November 2025, funded by Canada's Fund for Local Initiatives. On Canouan you can go out on the water at Charlestown Bay and see the floating lines with the family who farm them.
Whale and dolphin watching (humpback, sperm, pilot) best December–April; hawksbill conservation at the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary, Bequia.
Power: Type A/B/G, 230V
55 protected areas are recorded for the country. Tobago Cays Marine Park, established in 1998, covers roughly 50 square kilometres of sand bottomed lagoon around five uninhabited cays, enclosed by the 4km Horseshoe Reef, and takes in turtle nesting and feeding grounds and small mangrove systems. The standout is Ashton Lagoon on Union Island, and it deserves to be better known. The largest bay in the Grenadines was wrecked by a failed marina and golf course begun in 1994. Sustainable Grenadines Inc, a local non profit, spent years restoring it: breaches cut in the causeway to restore tidal flow in 2018, around 3,000 red mangrove seedlings replanted, twin suspension bridges, two bird observation towers and an interpretive centre, unveiled on 31 May 2019. There is an eco trail with signage and you can walk it.
Two species live here and nowhere else. The St Vincent parrot is endemic to the mainland's forested mountains and is listed Vulnerable. The Union Island gecko is Critically Endangered, was only described to science in 2005, and was immediately targeted by the illegal pet trade. The gecko is also one of the best conservation stories in the Caribbean. The government secured its listing on CITES Appendix I in 2019, and with anti poaching patrols, camera surveillance and an expanded protected area, the population rose from around 10,000 in 2018 to around 18,000. Its entire world range is one small forest, and over collection is the single greatest threat, so we name the species and the recovery and publish no route detail.
<p>Green turtles and coral reefs at Tobago Cays are protected; keep your distance, never touch or chase turtles and do not stand on coral.</p>
Getting around: Ferry between the islands, minibus on St Vincent
Fly into Argyle International (SVD) on St Vincent, often via Barbados. From Kingstown the ferry to Bequia takes about an hour and costs around 25 EC each way. Mustique, Canouan and Union Island are reached by small plane or boat. Once you are on the islands you get around by ferry, water taxi and local drivers, which keeps money in the community.
Money & language: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD) · English, Vincentian Creole
Powered by solar energy, alongside Oliver Messel passive cooling design that reduces the need for air conditioning by moving air naturally through the house with light and cross breeze.
Managed island wide by The Mustique Company as part of its environmental stewardship of the island and surrounding marine conservation zone.
A private chef is part of the four person villa team. Island chefs source local and seasonal produce, with fish sustainably caught in Caribbean waters for low food and carbon miles; food and beverages…
The whole of Mustique is a conservation area that extends 1000 yards from shore, a designated no-take zone protecting coral, fish, birds and reptiles.
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