RSSThough St Lucia isn't exactly the nightlife capital of the Caribbean, there's plenty to do after dark. Many hotels and restaurants in the west coast resort areas offer some sort of live music or dancing most nights of the week.
Between Castries and Cap Estate, and particularly at Rodney Bay, there are numerous bars and restaurants where you can have a drink or a meal whilst listening to anything from a mellow jazz combo to the hotter licks of a reggae, calypso or steel pan band, or even traditional chak-chak groups and canned or live rock and roll.
Moreover there are other choices of entertainment during evenings like folk dancing, crab racing, fire eating and limbo dancers. In May, nightlife is dominated by the annual jazz festival with lots of outdoor concerts.
There are also cultural evenings at La Sikwi, in Anse La Raye, which includes a full costume play reliving life in the village on a stage set into the hills with jazz bands and local acts.
The St Lucian bar scene is at its liveliest in Castries and Rodney Bay and drinking spots and hotel bars offer happy hours and other special deals on drinks. There are even pubs with a mix of young local people and tourists, and load karaoke music.
Most large hotels have discos, where DJs spin the latest music from North America or Europe. A few piano and jazz bars could also be located in the area.
But the highlight of nightlife in the island is the liveliest weekly event, the Gros Islet Street Party, held in the open air each Friday night and is the most visited and famous nighttime attraction.
