Virgin Islands US Travel Blogs

Dreadlock Holiday
Jun 14, 2007 (15 photos)

... bad luck! Despite the disruption Wendy and I were having a great time but Lynda and Marshall were getting a bit stressed so they had booked a sailing trip for us all over to the British Virgin Islands. So next stop was back to Blighty..... sort of.

Caneel Bay - Welcomes us to Paradise
Jun 2, 2008 (3 photos)

... refreshing cold towels and the Caneel staff and our friend Matthew Bartle, the front desk manager, who was happy to see us returning to the resort. Well, we're here and checked in to our room 125 on Hawksnest. Just a suggestion, If you ...

Ok... sorry this took so long
Apr 26, 2009 (56 photos)

... a haven for live aboard sailors. We spend hours obsessively browsing yachtworld.com looking for just the right vessel for us and entertaining fantasies of circumnavigation. Dust has developed an astounding sailing vocabulary while I tend to focus on floor ...

Review of Crown Princess-Eastern Caribbean
Apr 15, 2009 (5 photos)

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN PARADISE
Jun 4, 2008 (4 photos)

It's another beautiful day in Paradise today! We started the morning snorkeling on Scott's Beach and found a colony of star fish. Very large orange star fish, probably 10 inches acrossed. The afternoon started with our sailboat adventure yesterday. The ...

Sweenys Super Tour
Apr 10, 2007

... . Croix fact - St. Croix is one of very few islands in the carribean that is entirely surrounded by the carribean sea. Most islands have the carribean on one side and the atlantic on the other. Fact ) While you are travelling in Sweenys open sided bus you' ...

Our last day in Paradise!
Jun 8, 2008 (4 photos)

... ; Honeymooners...Families...Reunions....Special Occasions...Corporate Meetings.... For more information on Caneel Bay in St. John, USVI contact me. Michelle Sandy, US Virgin Islands Specialist Michelle@YTCNaples.com www.YTCNaples.com 239-403-7703

Boat trips
Nov 29, 2008 (26 photos)

... to a cute little restaurant where we met 10 Swedish men in Speedo shorts of varying colors frolicking in the ocean and hitting on us in broken English while doing spread eagle pull ups on the eaves of the building. All this after video taping their own arm ...

Views of St. Thomas
Jan 31, 2009 (42 photos)

Dear Blog, During the night, the Caribbean Princess made its way towards the island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands arriving this morning at 8:00am.  We witnessed, from the ship's top deck, the sunrise which was spectacular.   Today ...

St. Thomas: Scenic drive
Feb 7, 2009 (1 photos)

Dear Blog, Here we are today at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.  The ship made its way into port at 7:00am this morning under beautiful tropical weather. Today, I was supposed to experience the best of St. Thomas on a scenic drive combined with a beach ...

STAR FISH GALORE
Jun 5, 2008 (4 photos)

... entry so you all can see the beautiful underwater life that exists here. Yesterday, Miles, our FAV beach hopping bartender told us the star fish had made their way to the shore and were in very shallow water on Scott's Beach. We decided to see ...

Shopping Frenzy!! Evlyns Shopping Tour
Apr 14, 2007

... have been no grey grout on the islandthat is good. Something ( and I ca only take apassing interest in this ) has made the islands grey grout go off. ( As part of our shopping assignment today we had to go and get some grey grout from a small hardware ...

St Thomas flavor, then St John R&R
Jun 9, 2009 (5 photos)

... ended up at Gladys's Café in the royal Dane Mall. (340) 774-6604. OK so to my disappointment LINO21 was closed, but that led us to this amazing alley Café with the BEST hot sauce in town, and the food was so tasty. Pauline the barmaid said the kitchen closed ...

Dustin makes a literary appearance!!
Dec 29, 2008

... it, I know very few people whose lives are under control in such a manner so perhaps it's all an illusion to make us feel safe. A "neighborhood" here consists of houses of all different types, colors (or remnants of a colors) and sizes built in different ...

At Sea
Feb 22, 2007 (3 photos)

I let Gary sleep in this morning since he has a bad cold/cough.  I read a little and went to the gym...and when Gary got up we had a nice breakfast togheter and watched the calm sea go by.  We took in another cooking demonstration and attended ...

Caneel Bay is for families, couples, weddings!
Jun 9, 2009 (5 photos)

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St Thomas Adventure
Sep 2, 2005 (9 photos)

I stayed on St Thomas (US Virgin Islands) for two weeks, staying at Phils place with another friend Ash. While on St Thomas we did a bit of sight seeing, some amazing snorkeling seeing all sort of fish, turtles, coral and other sea creatures. The island ...

St Thomas
Feb 21, 2007 (11 photos)

... the bay, wishing ours was one of them.  We met Karen and Hunter for a pre-dinner drink -- but only Hunter joined us for dinner.  We turned in early ourselves since Gary's coming down with something horrible.  His cough is really bad and ...

Nov 12, 2005 update St. Thomas, USVI
Nov 12, 2005 (14 photos)

... anchor, checked out of the BVI at Great Harbor and headed for Cruz Bay on St. John to sign into the US Virgin Islands. The National Park Service has moorings all along the Caneel Bay resort. Since Cruz Bay is small and awash with commercial traffic and ...

Caneel Bay....A place like no other
Apr 17, 2008 (7 photos)

... one of my favorite places. Please let me share it with you! Call me or email me for your trip to the Virgin Islands. Michelle Sandy, Destination Specialist - Caribbean       Your Travel Concierge of Naples   & ...

HEY Bob and Evlyn Day
Apr 11, 2007

... the bank. My first big treats on St. Croix! And the bank was Barclays bank, woud you believe. Having completed our chores Bob drove us back to thier house. I may have mentioned it before, if I have bear with me, but B & E have retired here from the ...

Snorkeling adventures
Jun 3, 2008 (3 photos)

... to turn in the direction of shore and we finished our snorkel.  The best snorkeling experience ever for both of us. The afternoon/evening was started with a Managers cocktail reception, hosted by Ed Gannon the Resort manager and his staff. It was ...

Buck Island Bonanza
Apr 13, 2007

... beach here, just snorkelling straight off the back of the boat.. The gorgeous girl, I believe she may have been called Bailey, led us on a trail around the reef, and I know I am really using up my superlative type credits but the coral was truely AMAZING. ...

Another day...
Jan 19, 2009

Yes, I really did put glitter on the "pig skin" Dustin drew on the super bowl poster we decorated today. I wanted it to be obvious that a female was responsible for the artistic additions and I figured iridescent glitter on the laces was a dead giveaway. ...

Last stop on a wonderful cruise
Oct 30, 2003 (1 photos)

NOT THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX AND LOVING IT For this leg of the cruise, I did all of the typical tourist-type activities: shopping in the beautiful town, but mostly enjoying one of St Thomas' many beautiful beaches.

st. thomas
May 2, 2007

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Little update
Dec 9, 2008 (9 photos)

... things to do and places to go. There's a great trail to a viewpoint that could be considered a workout by even the ridiculously fit among us, we vowed to do it a few times a week and have yet to scale the "mountain" since the first time. Lazy bums. There ...

More in 3 days than some people see in a lifetime.
Nov 2, 2008

... are nice if you start out that way, and it seems they try to slow down their speech when they're talking to us mainlanders who seem to use too many fill words or something. Their sentence structure basically contains vowels and verbs and that's about it. ...

Evlyn - It's All About You
Apr 12, 2007

... I not get full and proper portions ! Anyhow, our big day out for today was going to be to go to the supermarket. This took us just about all morning and into the early afternoon. On our way back we got subs from subway. Evlyn doesn't do much of the eating ...

Full Moon Beach Party
Jan 16, 2009 (2 photos)

... the sand a bright golden-white even under the night sky. Stars blotted out by the brightest moon we'll see this year. Us northerners even get a little chilly, reveling in the chance to put on a sweatshirt over our bathing suits while our toes are still in ...