Comprehensive Tours on 11 islands

Hear, See, Smell, Taste, Touch, and Feel the Caribbean!  

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How We Operate

Caribbean Historical Tours, L.L.C. is a tour and excursion company. We are a family-operated business since 1984. We are based in the Caribbean and headquartered in St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands and Antigua. We provide high end, niche market tours with in-depth information, not just historical in scope, but Nature (eco), Beach, and General tours.

All of our tours are specialized and our General Tour composites of information from the other tours respective to each island. The combined experience of our managers and passionate tour guides makes the difference.

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Our Drivers

At Caribbean Historical Tours L.L.C. (C.HIS.TOURS!), we train our drivers and they are some of the very best. We use uniquely qualified drivers with personality, a willingness to learn, many of which have years of experience in this service industry.

Our training ensures that our drivers are articulate, versed in each of their respective island's history, ecology, current statistical information, coach and limousine customer service training, first aid training and other types of information that helps them provide you with the first-class service.

Benefits & Travel Suggestions

Family Culture

We are proud of our reputation as a family-owned company and we aspire to be a catalyst for fun in learning, and a cultivator of family culture. We believe in learning together, eating together, and having fun exploring the islands while being stimulated by what nature provides us.

We are a leader in the tour industry offering comprehensive interactive tours that favors one or more of your senses to: See, Smell, Hear, Taste, Touch and/or Feel the Caribbean!

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Research & Training

We work in and with the archives, local libraries, and colleges, to collect and store data.  We research and acquire historical information of the entire Caribbean region. This historical data is used in training our tour guides and to further our goals of entertaining and enlightening our clients. 

Best Experience

We take the skill of touring seriously. Our commitment is to provide fun and exciting experiences that the whole family can enjoy. We understand that it is sometimes difficult to understand the different West Indian dialects, therefore, our drivers are mindful of this and embraces the science of breathing used by singers, public speakers, and actors who enunciate and modulate their words and voices so that they are understood in context. We work harder at being the very best. It is the only thing that guarantees our success in a market that is saturated with competition from cruise-ship-tours.

We cater to the intelligent shopper on a quest for good value and the highest quality possible.

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Island Culture

Every cultural tradition is equally important to us and the different traditional herbal medicines are used in some of the same ways and there are others that are not practiced island to island. We do not administer these herbs, because of random allergens; however, many of these were used to great effect for millennia. We simply explain what they are historically used to cure, for entertainment purposes only.

Make us your official family tour company. With more than ten island locations in the Caribbean and so many cultures to explore. We can accommodate any size group and offer incentives for groups of ten or more. Grow with us as we get to know you. We will connect you with the best: local food, snorkeling, jet skiing and island excursions. Whatever it is that you would like to do in the islands, we have a lots of ideas that can get you there. Try us today.

Medicinal Plants

Chanca piedra is an herb that is used by the older folks back in the day, and still today. “The whole plant is used to make medicine. Chanca piedra is most commonly used by mouth for various disorders of the urinary tract, digestive tract, and liver, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these or other uses.”  -  webmd.com

Historical Tours

Historical Tour I is very comprehensive and includes a two-phase experience of walking and driving. These tours often last for more than two hours and in some cases as long as five hours. Be sure to check the duration of the tour you are interested in. If you love history, but don't want the walking aspect then choose our General Tours or our Historical Tours II.

This is a traditional walking historical tour with factual information and easy going walk through the most important historical constructions that remain as well as fantastical stories of triumph, pain, and freedom.

The fun does not stop after the walks in the parks. Our historical I tours are 2 phased tours that end with a drive. Our services are full service and includes optional beach and shopping time.

This is the most comprehensive historical tour on the island conducted by trained tour guides, who are comprehensible, articulate and well versed in Virgin Islands history.

This tour is full service and offers optional BEACH and SHOPPING TIME with a return to most locales.

This is a specialized  tour like our Historical Tour I, but without the walking involved; very convenient. Stops are made to illustrate, recite, entertain and  to take pictures. This experience is a combination of human historical chronology, an introduction to Caribbean culture and that which originated specifically from St. Thomas.

We may pick fruits that are in season for you right on the spot, we always pick flora that were used historically for healing. We discuss the island's statistics and engage you in this authentic cultural historical experience that visits  the past and explain the events that took place in this island of five different colonial settlements. This tour is a true sensory experience living up to our goals satisfying what you Hear, See, Smell, Taste, Touch and Feeling in the Caribbean!!!

It covers local life: statistics, politics, geography, flora and fauna and of course a little African, European, and Danish history. We drive through the island looking at Emancipation Garden, Frenchtown, German headquarters, historical churches, University of the Virgin Islands, Magens Bay, Hull Bay, St. John, Tortola, St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra and many cays and islets. We make the history come alive with this interactive tour that also covers the chronology of events that brought the island to the present.

This is still the most comprehensive historical tour on the island conducted by trained tour guides, who are comprehensible, articulate and well versed in Virgin Islands history.

This tour is full service and offers optional BEACH and SHOPPING TIME with a return to most locales.

Everyday Tours

The General Tour offers the best value because it is designed to be a composite of several diverse tours and lots of history. We recount history in creative ways. We modulate our voices in theatrical ways so history can live for you. Tales and truths of the aboriginal peoples, piracy, slavery, colonization, and the chronological order of successive European colonies and their notorious leaders are all covered. These tours can be utilized as a field trip for school groups, from middle school to collegiate levels. Informative and educational, this is an excellent tour for families or individuals who love the rich stories of pirates in the Caribbean.

WHAT IS COVERED

You will see the island's vast geographical beauty, smell aromatic medicinal herbs and learn of their uses. We drive to and through different historical sites, and to some of the highest elevations on the islands we serve. Each tour is unique and island-specific. Beach time is sometimes possible on these tours. Ask your tour guide.

Note: For history lovers that prefer less walking, we highly recommend the Historical Tour II.

  • Hiking.
  • Trailing.
  • Kayaking.
  • Swimming.
  • Snorkeling.
  • Eating.
  • Partying.
  • Simply spending quality time in nature.
  • Learning about aromatic traditional medicinal herbs.

Beach Tours are for the beach lovers and they are a great way to see the island and get some important swim time in. It is always possible to shop after you swim at the beach. These tours always start in the morning so that you can have it all in one day. This is a very smart tour to utilize. It could be considered your traditional island tour with nothing covering the history, but instead really cool information about the paths of whales, depths of the ocean, types of fish and coral reefs that are found in the surrounding waters, etc.

HISTORICAL STORIES, TOPOGRAPHY, AND COLONIAL SETTLEMNET. For anyone interested in seeing most of the island, and still focus on monuments, these tours include visits to several beaches in two hours, with another two to five hours on a beautiful beach for swimming, snorkeling or scuba diving (scuba diving is not included in the tour price and is not always available.) If our tour starts at 9:00 a.m. in the morning you could be at the beach swimming by 11:00 a.m., leave the beach at 1:00 p.m. to go shopping, or stay on the beach all day.

Luxury Tours

Shopping Tours are always an all-Inclusive. If shopping is your thing, you will love this tour. We offer a personal shopping adviser on the tours, who will give you suggestions on the best places to shop, unbiased opinions on what gemstones are considered commercial grade opposed to the more rare grades, which would be considered investment type, quality, what is a better value, etc. We will even assist you in negotiating a better deal if necessary and if possible. Lunch and shopping are done after the tour is completed. These tours are all-inclusive and lunch is always at one of the finest restaurants in town.

Note: This excursion is a combination of our General Tour and our special *Shopping Services. Shopping services are a complementary feature on this tour (whenever available) and we are no guarantor of quality, value, best price, real or fake. We do employ trained professional people that are highly skilled and have experience working in the gem trade.

  • Hiking.
  • Trailing.
  • Kayaking.
  • Swimming.
  • Snorkeling.
  • Eating.
  • Partying.
  • Simply spending quality time in nature.
  • Learning about aromatic traditional medicinal herbs.

Beach Tours are for the beach lovers and they are a great way to see the island and get some important swim time in. It is always possible to shop after you swim at the beach. These tours always start in the morning so that you can have it all in one day. This is a very smart tour to utilize. It could be considered your traditional island tour with nothing covering the history, but instead really cool information about the paths of whales, depths of the ocean, types of fish and coral reefs that are found in the surrounding waters, etc.

HISTORICAL STORIES, TOPOGRAPHY, AND COLONIAL SETTLEMNET. For anyone interested in seeing most of the island, and still focus on monuments, these tours include visits to several beaches in two hours, with another two to five hours on a beautiful beach for swimming, snorkeling or scuba diving (scuba diving is not included in the tour price and is not always available.) If our tour starts at 9:00 a.m. in the morning you could be at the beach swimming by 11:00 a.m., leave the beach at 1:00 p.m. to go shopping, or stay on the beach all day.

A beach with a palm tree and some sand