Our crew of six adults has been chartering in the Caribbean since 1995, visiting most of the islands from the BVI to Grenada during our dozen trips. We visited Martinique, chartering out of St Lucia in 2003 (before Moorings moved out of Marigot Bay). It was our least favorite destination. Scenery was great, but the people (shop keepers, wait staff, etc) were just rude. One of our group was fluent in French, so she did the talking for all of us. It didn't help. We routinely sat in restaurants, ignored for 30 minutes or more before any initial contact. When we finally got some attention, it was brusque and cursory, with no followup. Meanwhile, the French tourists around us were catered to like visiting royalty. Maybe the atmosphere has changed in 14 years. We don't know, because although we have returned to several islands more than once, we will never go back to Martinique.

As an aside, when we were in Alsace-Lorraine in 2015, a local told us that in 2016, the French government was going to distribute a million little cards to teach Parisians how to be nice to tourists. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />