For an exceptionally long time, the West Indies has been a preferred Australian Cricket Tour for many. We get more enquiries about the next Australian Test Cricket Tour to the West Indies than most other nations, with Sri Lanka and South Africa a close 2nd and 3rd; rightly so as they are the number 1 & 2 best nations to follow Australian Cricket.

Disappointed to miss the West Indies in June 2021 due to C19, we trust all will be balanced for Australian spectators to return to the cool Caribbean in June 2023. It will be 8-years between West Indian rum punches, but with it just around the corner, anticipation & excitement are building.

Hotel Tours Will Include Per Test:

• 8 Nights 4 / 5 Star Hotel
• Arrival Transfer To Hotel
• All Inter-Island Flights As Req.
• Airport Transfer To/From Hotel
• Match Tickets To All 5 Days
• Match Day Transfers If Req.
• 2 Dinner Parties With Drinks
• An Excursion On The Water, or
• Day Trip Around The Island
• Two Bent Banani Floral Shirts
• Commemorative Merchandise
• Lonely Planet Travel Guide
• Our Cricket Travel Knowhow Since 1995

Match Ticket Dinner Party Tours Will Include:

• Match Tickets To All 5 Days
• 2 Dinner Parties With Drinks
• 1 Bent Banani Floral Shirt
• Lonely Planet Travel Guide

With severely damaged travel & tourism industries, even 2023 pricing may work incredibly well in your favour, notwithstanding that June is the low season!

This tour however it is not yet confirmed or included we should say in the ICC future tours program. We believe it should be played in June, but this long-awaited Test series could replace the Cricket World Cup 2023 in India. Originally to be played in March, the tournament has been moved to Oct-Nov 2023, leaving room for Australia to Tour the West Indies.

Australia could play postponed Bangladesh 2020 or South Africa 2021 if by March 2023 they haven't yet, leaving West Indies 2023 to be played in June before Australia’s Ashes Cricket Tour to England 2023.

This reminds us of the 2015 debacle when, 6 weeks before the start, the West Indies Cricket Tour was brought forward by 2 days so the Australian Cricket Team could catch an earlier flight out of Jamaica to London, but let’s digress!

Whether we tour in March or June, above all else we look forward to at least 3 Tests to make your journey far more worthwhile. With only 2 Tests and nothing else in 2015, everyone, especially West Indians, missed out on so much.

No matter what the format we will make this, with your help, a cracking tour in what we hope will be played in at least two ‘big’ islands for a change, no disrespect to our little favourite Dominica. We last played in Antigua 2008 and in Barbados 2012 so it is time that half of Australia packed their flags to wave at two of the original bastions of West Indies Cricket. They defined the game in the islands.

Crystal blue waters, open-air parties, boat trips, rum shacks, palm trees, barbeques, music, seafood, silky sands, wonder, waterfalls, forests, colour, cricket, and prominently, fun. Almost anything goes in the West Indies, though we don't deny that life at the game is on life-support compared to the life-changing series that were the Australian Cricket Tours to the West Indies 1995, 1999, and 2003.

The ICC ruined what we know as cricket in the West Indies with their World Cup 2007. Unnecessary large and characterless venues sucked the passion, heart, and purpose out of life at the game, and Caribbean cricket has not been the same since.

What we didn't lose were the incredible people that make touring the West Indies as special as Australia winning the Frank Worrell Trophy! West Indians may not embrace cricket as boistrously as times before, but they're still there, rum-punching through their days and nights, in their plenty!

We’d love to focus on enjoying Antigua & Barbados but with 10 nations to host 3 Tests, there is no guarantee we will play anywhere we want in any cricket nation we tour! In 2015 we had the delight of playing in Dominica and we won’t be upset to return but we’d love a change. We would relish St Lucia and St Kitts, if not Antigua and Barbados, as much as playing in Grenada and St Vincent.

The lottery will be not drawn for a while but what we do know, as on all our West Indies Cricket Tours, we will visit St Maarten. 4 nights ‘all-inclusive’ on spectacular Maho Beach, arguably the plane-spotting capital of the Caribbean, if not the world, has long been a favourite addition to watching cricket in the West Indies. From here you can visit another 4 island nations without forgetting St Maarten is two countries in one for a start.

To make your tour easy we will include inter-island flights and hotel transfers on arrival and departure, except when you leave to fly home. You only need to get to and from the islands, and we will package everything in between including hotels (some all-inclusive as in the past), match tickets, dinner beach parties, our unique floral shirts, excursions* on the water, and anything else that helps make your tour even more special, and hassle-free.

Circumventing Antigua on a catamaran, sailing the West Coast of St Lucia to the Pitons, jet-boating to Floyd's Pelican Bar in Jamaica, swimming gorges and waterfalls in Dominica, or driving Barbados on a rum shack tour are some of our most treasured excursions and memories.

We appreciate the efforts needed to reach the islands so, like our West Indies Cricket Tour 2021, we will add a 4-night trip to Barbados, Antigua, St Kitts, or St Lucia, for example, should Australia not play Test cricket on any of these beautiful islands. We will happily share with you some exceptional days out!

Across 3 Tests, you can have an amazing 4 weeks rum punching on a yacht, rocking barefoot on the sand, liming at the weekly jump-up (street party), snorkeling through coral, sunning in turquoise waters, teeing up on gorgeous golf courses, or kicking back in a rum shack on a palm-fringed beach. Cricket adds to all that, with incredible people who see the game as life’s purpose.

What we do always depends on the schedule, but we plan to have 8 nights on each island watching test cricket, with 4 nights on St Maarten and 4 on another wondrous rock once we know where to go. If it's a 3 Test series, we could play 2 Tests with a week's break before the 3rd, or simply play 3 Tests back to back with 3-4 days break between each.

Our perfect cricket world is often far from reality, more so in the Caribbean knowing not every nation is connected by daily flights to every other nation. You often catch one airline to one island to catch another airline to the next. A perfect definition of island-hopping the Caribbean. 

When schedules change as they did in 2015 and we had to swiftly rework flights, hotels, and transfers, those 'on tour' only had to focus on having a great time with some of the near 700 cool people that we've brought together at the game for more than 20 years; some that even travelled the West Indies with us in 1995.

Having island-hopped the Caribbean since 1995 to all nations plus St Maarten, Tobago, Saba, Nevis, St Barts, and Anguilla, we have a cracking good idea of how to create the absolute best possible tour for you from an often awfully bad schedule!!

Rum punch time!