Where to Stay When You Go Caribbean Island-Hopping

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ANTIGUA and BARBUDA

Copper and Lumber Store on Antigua: $70 to $130 per night double. Winter, $150 to $250. For reservations, call (203) 866-8989.

Blue Waters: 46 rooms, $120 to $220 double. Call (800) 372-1323.

Pineapple Beach Club: $230 to $300 double. Winter, $310 to $390. Call (800) 223-9815.

St. James Club: $2,190 per couple per week. Includes full breakfast and dinner daily, unlimited day and night tennis, all water sports except scuba diving, afternoon tea daily, cocktail party, $20 in casino chips and bottle of champagne on arrival. Winter rates, Oct. 15 to Dec. 19, $2,240. Call (800) 274-0008.

On Barbuda, there is the 11-room Sunset View Resort. All rooms are screened with ceiling fans and overlook the courtyard pool. There is a bar and open dining area.

Rates: $75 double, including continental breakfast. Call (809) 460-0078 or (809) 460-0016. There are also several private homes and guest houses for rent on Barbuda.

Contact the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Tourism & Trade, 610 Fifth Avenue, Suite 311, New York 10020, (212) 541-4117.

GRENADA

Spice Island Inn: $225 double for a suite with private pool and all meals in the off-season; $420 a night from mid-December to mid-April. Newer rooms have whirlpool baths. The pool suites have private pools, and the rooms at beachside have an attractive, plant-filled atrium dividing the bedroom and bath.

Secret Harbour (now owned by The Moorings, the yacht people): $108 per room per day, double occupancy. Winter rates are $180.

Coyaba Beach Resort: $85 per room, double. Winter rates are $125.

Reservations for any of the above hotels may be made through the Grenada Hotel Assn.: (800) 322-1753 or (800) 223-4815. For more information, contact the Grenada Tourist Information Office, 141 East 44th St., Suite 701, New York 10017, (800) 638-0852.

TURKS & CAICOS

Package holidays for the Ramada Inn, Turtle Cove, Erebus and Ocean Club may be made through Neal Watson’s Undersea Adventures, Box 21766, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33335-1766, (800) 327-8150, which offers diving tours to any of these resorts in Provo.

A five-day trip at Turtle Cove is $484 per person, double occupancy, and includes transfers, room tax, daily diving, (tanks, weights, belts), boat trip to reef and full American breakfast daily.

The same tour staying at the Ramada is $519. Non-divers deduct $25 per day. (Air fare, of course, is not included.)

Contact the Tourist Information Office, Medhurst Associates, 271 Main St., Northport, N.Y. 11768, (516) 261-9600.