🛍️ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: souvenirs
St Vincent sells what it grows and builds - arrowroot, nutmeg, model boats from Bequia and rum from the Windward coast. Here is what travellers bring home from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where the good versions live, and the export questions worth a look - alongside our 37 written places.
🛒 The classic buys
Bequia model boats
The island's boatbuilders scale down whalers and schooners plank by plank - the Port Elizabeth workshops sign museum-grade work.
Arrowroot products
St Vincent is the world's arrowroot capital - biscuits, powder and skincare from the historic crop.
Sunset Very Strong and local rum
The famous 84.5% overproof cannot fly - buy the lower-proof expressions for the suitcase.
Spices and hot sauce
Nutmeg, mace and scotch-bonnet sauces from Kingstown market.
Batik and craft
Island workshops on St Vincent and Bequia.
⚠️ Check before you buy
- Overproof rum above 70% is banned from aircraft - buy the export strength.
- Marine material - coral, conch, turtle - restricted.
✗ Better left behind
- Coral and turtle items - protected.
- The overproof bottle for the flight home - it cannot legally board.
Keep planning
Markets shift, workshops close and open, and the best souvenir is still the one with a story you were there for. Buy from makers where you can, keep receipts for anything substantial, and when a deal feels too good, it usually is.