To choose where to stay in Guadeloupe, you need to have an idea of the distances you will have to travel in one day to visit the island. To help you see this, I have retraced here the route which goes completely around the island, estimating the travel time and mileage.
Driving distances in Guadeloupe
To give you some benchmarks, Guadeloupe measures, as the crow flies, 80 km wide and 60 km high, for an area of approximately 1500 km2. The longest road distance is 98 km between Saint François (Pointe des Chateaux in the east of the island) and Saint-Claude (commune of the Soufrière volcano, south Basse Terre). On the Pointe-à-Pitre / Basse-Terre axis, the road network is largely made up of two-lane national roads. Everywhere else these are mainly single-lane departmental or municipal roads. We therefore prefer to express journeys in time rather than distances, as roads and traffic are not the same everywhere. For example, the roads on the leeward coast of Basse Terre are mountainous and winding, but do not suffer from traffic jams. In Grande Terre. it's quite the opposite... In our page dedicated to car rental, I tell you more to know how long to tour Guadeloupe.
Driving in Guadeloupe
Note that, and this is not a negligible point, from the cottage JADEN KREYOL you are traveling against the traffic jams of Grande Terre. Indeed, in the morning the road from Saint François to Pointe-à-Pitre (one lane) has many traffic black spots between 6:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Yes, there are some who work and go to school! The same goes for the road from Morne-à-l'eau to Pointe-à-Pitre, because traffic converges towards Jarry, the economic heart of the island, next to Pointe-à-Pitre, just after the Gabarre bridge. which separates Grande Terre from Basse Terre. During the tourist season, the flow of tourists, numerous in Saint François and Sainte Anne, adds to the flow of residents and traffic towards Basse Terre often becomes difficult, both on the outward and return journeys. Leaving JADEN KREYOL towards Grande Terre in the morning, once you have passed a slowdown at the entrance to Jarry, you are traveling in the right direction.
Guadeloupe 10 days itinerary
As an indication, here are some estimated car travel times in Guadeloupe departing from JADEN KREYOL in Lamentin (Prise d'Eau quarter), barring exceptional traffic of course. This article by jolis circuits will help you prepare for your tour in Guadeloupe.
BASSE TERRE
- Petit bourg (Cascade aux écrevisses / National Park): 7'
- Sainte-Rose (Morne rouge fisher harbor, excursions startpoint): 15'
- Deshaies (Clugny beach): 20'
- Deshaies (village): 30'
- Bouillante (Jacques Cousteau reserve) : 30'
- Pointe Noire (Zoo): 20'
- Pointe Noire (village): 30'
- Trois Rivières (boarding to Les Saintes): 40'
- Vieux Habitants (vilage) : 50'
- Basse Terre (downtown): 50'
- Saint Claude (Soufrière volcano): 60'
GRANDE TERRE
- Pointe à Pitre (downtown): 20'
- Abymes (airport): 20'
- Gosier (la Datcha beach - Ilet Gosier): 30'
- Sainte Anne (village) : 40'
- Le Moule (downtown): 40'
- Saint François : 50'
- Port-Louis : 50'
- Anse Bertrand (La Vigie cliffs): 60'
How long does it take to drive around Guadeloupe