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Total0SharesWindjammer Landing&nbsp;is a luxury beach resort in Labrelotte Bay on the Caribbean island of&nbsp;Saint Lucia.&nbsp;Sam and I&nbsp;visited St Lucia back in 2017&nbsp;on our&nbsp;pre-wedding&nbsp;honeymoon. During our visit, we had a drink at Jammers – Windjammer Landing’s beach bar and restaurant. I remember thinking that&nbsp;Windjammer Landing beach resort&nbsp;looked like a great resort to stay at with the kids, and ever since then I’d had Windjammer Landing in mind when we were pricing up long haul family holidays.&nbsp;This October, we were finally able to make that trip happen. Covid restrictions had eased, we had several travel vouchers from cancelled 2020 trips due to expire, so we found ourselves booking a&nbsp;great last minute rate for a two bed ocean view villa at&nbsp;Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort.&nbsp;We booked with Booking.com, because we had vouchers and loyalty points to use up, and Booking.com price match to any other rate you find.&nbsp;Click to get a quote for your stay at Windjammer Landing!We have four children ranging in age from 11 to 1 year old. I’ll go into further detail about all of the below points, but in a nutshell, we found Windjammer Landing well suited for families for several reasons:The bay is very sheltered and gently shelved. The shallow, calm waters of labrelotte bay&nbsp;is ideal for young swimmers.&nbsp;There are a range of watersports and kids club activities to keep older children and teenagers busy.&nbsp;The accommodation options are well suited for large families at Windjammer Landing. Villas feature multiple bedrooms, full kitchens and a dining area.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing is not your typical one-room hotel accommodation. At Windjammer Landing, the accommodation is similar to that of a self-catered villa, but with the advantage of all-inclusive foodThis is one of the downsides of the resort. Windjammer Landing is a 1.5 hour drive from St Lucia’s main airport, Hewanorra International Airport. After an 8 hour flight, the extra car journey does make the overall travel time seem quite long. However, it wouldn’t put us off doing the trip again, as Windjammer Landing is so well-suited to families.&nbsp;The car journey from Hewanorra Airport to Windjammer Landing takes you through the twisty turny mountainous centre of the island of St Lucia.Judging by our shared stories with fellow resort guests, it is common for travel sickness to occur – even in children who have never displayed travel sickness before, like our 5 year old. So be prepared!&nbsp;Windjammer Landing offers several different sized villa options.The&nbsp;Windjammer Landing villas&nbsp;are built into the lush&nbsp;hillside, which gives you spectacular views of the Caribbean sea, but can mean a bit of uphill walking.&nbsp;Our villa was only a couple of rows from the bottom, and walkable (up the&nbsp;steep hillside!) in 5 minutes, but you can call a shuttle bus at any time day or night to take you to and from your villa, which is definitely necessary if you are staying in the higher up villas.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing also offers&nbsp;luxury beach-front villa accommodation. These villas are super modern and a lot more centrally located, if your budget suits. There are a number of&nbsp;four-bedroom villas&nbsp;if you are travelling in a large group.&nbsp;I filmed a video tour of our&nbsp;Windjammer Landing two bedroom ocean view villa, which you can watch below.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;View this post on Instagram&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A post shared by Chloe – Sorry About The Mess (@mostlychloe)Being a family of six, we made use of a twin bedroom, a master bedroom with&nbsp;queen bed, and a sofabed in the living area, with our youngest in a cot with us in the master.&nbsp;There was also the option to book a 3 bed villa, which would have meant no one needing to sleep in the communal area sofabed, but in the end we were glad we saved money with the 2 bed villa.&nbsp;We spent the majority of our time out and about in the resort, only returning to our villa to sleep, so we found that we didn’t really need any extra space or the use of the living room area. We all tend to go to bed and wake at the same time on holiday, so there was no issue with disturbing the person sleeping in the open plan living area.Windjammer landing villas come with their&nbsp;own private plunge pools, which we thought was a brilliant idea. Our plunge pool was actually quite large – more than enough room for the kids to swim about. You can see more of the plunge pool in the video above.The only downside to our Windjammer Landing accommodation was the lack of washing machine. Windjammer Landing laundry charges were per item and quite costly, so we made do with hand washing our one year old’s messy clothes.&nbsp;The main events at Windjammer Landing are the beach and the swimming pools.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing has a total of 5 pools, including the&nbsp;main pool, shallow children’s pool, and an adults only pool. The pools are a pretty basic offering – no slides or fun extras. But during the afternoons there was always some sort of fun pool game or activity going on, as organised by the kids club.&nbsp;Down by the beach is where most of the action is. Windjammer Landing has a great&nbsp;water sports program. Throughout the day you can take out snorkels, SUPs, pedalos, and kayaks. Jet skis, waterskis, and windsurfing are also available.&nbsp;Every day in the afternoon there was a banana boat or sofa/tube ride that you could book onto. Children need to be over five years old and able to swim.&nbsp;In addition to the daily watersports activities, there is a giant inflatable slide in the sea, and some other hammocks and floating things for relaxing on.&nbsp;Every evening at 9pm, there was some sort of&nbsp;live entertainment&nbsp;by the&nbsp;main pool. During our stay, there were several bands, a silent disco evening, karaoke, and a fire eating display.&nbsp;For the youngest of holiday makers, there is a small&nbsp;playground area&nbsp;in the middle of the Windjammer Landing resort.&nbsp;Experience a spot of wellness with a range of&nbsp;spa treatments&nbsp;with island-grown products.&nbsp;View this post on InstagramA post shared by Chloe (@mostlychloe)&nbsp;The&nbsp;Windjammer Landing phone app&nbsp;tells you the timings of everything that is happening during your stay, from kids clubs activities, to restaurant opening hours and menus, to evening entertainment.&nbsp;The app is also a good way to find out which days are special dinner days (such as the beach BBQ), so you can book your restaurant reservations for other evenings.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing offers both all inclusive and self catered options.&nbsp;Normally, we like to choose self catered holidays, but this year was a little different. At the time of our visit, St Lucia was operating covid curfews for off-resort restaurants and supermarkets. Because there is not yet a vaccination program for under 11s in the UK, our kids would have needed to pass an extra PCR test on arrival in order to be allowed off resort.&nbsp;So this time, we opted for the all inclusive package at Windjammer Landing.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing’s All Inclusive package covers all meals and snacks as well as all alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (except by the bottle) from any of the Windjammer Landing restaurants and resort bars, including&nbsp;room service.Children eat and drink for free on the AI package at Windjammer. &nbsp;This made the extra cost to go all-inclusive for myself and Sam was actually very reasonable, and definitely worked out less than it would have cost if we had gone self catered and factored in car hire to get to the supermarkets, plus a couple of restaurant meals.&nbsp;If we were to revisit Windjammer Landing, I would definitely choose all-inclusive again, for the ease and the value for money.&nbsp;It did, however, mean that we barely touched the dining room and fully equipped kitchen in our Windjammer villa! The fact that you have a kitchen in your villa&nbsp;in addition to&nbsp;all-inclusive makes snacks and meal times at Windjammer Landing really flexible, and covers all the food requirements a family might need on holiday.&nbsp;On the all-inclusive plan, for a delivery charge of $7, you can order&nbsp;room service&nbsp;to your Windjammer Landing villa, which we took advantage of on several evenings when we fancied a more relaxed dining experience than eating out with four kids at different levels of hunger and tiredness!There are five restaurants at Windjammer Landing beach resort, although not all of them are open at the same time throughout the day.&nbsp;During our visit, there were 3 main restaurants for dinner: Jammers beach bar,&nbsp;Papa Don&nbsp;(Italian), and&nbsp;Upper Deck&nbsp;(Steak and fish).&nbsp;There was also a Friday night BBQ on the beach, and a seafood night another evening during our stay – so if you plan well and book your meals ahead, there is just enough variation to mean you aren’t eating from the same menu two nights in a row.&nbsp;We found lunch a little more samey, with not much menu variation between the two lunchtime restaurants: Embers and Jammers. On the days where we ate at Embers for lunch, followed by Jammers for dinner, we found ourselves wishing there were one or two further restaurant options.Breakfast is a buffet affair at Dragonfly, with Jammers acting as an overspill option if Dragonfly is at full capacity.&nbsp;Dining service was our biggest gripe with our stay at Windjammer Landing, which I relayed to the resort in my post-holiday google review. To sum it up, it felt like we were always waiting for something.&nbsp;It didn’t seem to matter what time we arrived for breakfast or lunch, staff seemed unprepared for seating a family of six (despite knowing we were staying all week?). &nbsp;We were seemingly the only family having to wait for a table (but given no estimate of a wait time, which would have enabled us to entertain our hungry impatient kids elsewhere and then come back). There were a lot more tables for families of four, and only one or two for families of 6 or more.&nbsp;Once eventually seated, we would more often than not be waiting tens of minutes for cutlery and water to be brought to our table. Try explaining to a hangry one year old who has already been waiting at least 30 minutes for a table that he&nbsp;still&nbsp;can’t eat his cereal because we are waiting for a spoon.&nbsp;Thanks to the various meal time delays, I spent most mealtimes firefighting the emotions of a confused and very hungry toddler, which had an incredibly stressful impact on me, and I don’t normally find myself flustered by toddler antics.&nbsp;Perhaps this should go under a ‘holidaying with toddlers’ caveat, because we could be a bit more ‘go with the flow’ with wait times and delays if we didn’t have very young children.&nbsp;During our stay, Bay was the only older baby / toddler at the resort, and I did feel very conscious of his noise levels amongst other guests at meal times because he was so unhappy a lot of the time.&nbsp;We haven’t had much prior experience with all inclusive holidays, so I’m not sure how common it is for a large family to experience long wait times to be seated. Perhaps this is the sort of issue we would encounter at any resort as a family of six in peak season.&nbsp;No, Windjammer Landing is one of St Lucia’s family-friendly resorts with lots of activities for children.&nbsp;Windjammer Landing is a 1.5 hour drive from Hewanorra airport. You can also take a private helicopter ride from the airport to nearby Castries, which will get you to Windjammer Landing sooner.&nbsp;Complimentary Wifi is available in both the accommodation and resort-wide at Windjammer Landing.One week is long enough to experience everything the Windjammer resort has to offer. However, if it is your only stop in St Lucia, I would recommend staying a few days longer so you can fit in some day trips to explore off-site.&nbsp;British airways run direct flights from the UK to St Lucia. Flight time is approx 8 hours 50 minutes. &nbsp;Peak season and the best weather is between December – March in St Lucia. However, the shoulder seasons if October and April can be a great time to visit. You avoid the crowds and still get favourable weather.&nbsp;&nbsp;Total0SharesThank you for this really helpful review. We are considering a visit in May 23 with a 6 year old and a 12 year old, so all of your observations are very useful. Thank you.ReplyHello! I'm Chloe.I live in South London with my four children and their dad. I love storytelling through film-making and photography - cameras have made me happy ever since I was a child.Click below to read more about our story:ARCHIVEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzBvBnGNT7wInput your search keywords and press Enter.This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. 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Total0SharesWindjammer Landing&nbsp;is a luxury beach resort in Labrelotte Bay on the Caribbean island of&nbsp;Saint Lucia.&nbsp;Sam and I&nbsp;visited St Lucia back in 2017&nbsp;on our&nbsp;pre-wedding&nbsp;honeymoon. During our visit, we had a drink at Jammers – Windjammer Landing’s beach bar and restaurant. I remember thinking that&nbsp;Windjammer Landing beach resort&nbsp;looked like a great resort to stay at with the kids, and ever since then I’d had Windjammer Landing in mind when we were pricing up long haul family holidays.&nbsp;This October, we were finally able to make that trip...

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