The Heritage Inn Tortola

Elm Villa, Tortola, BVI &#8211; This place is a find.<br><br>My family and I rented Elm Villa for a week this summer and loved it. We give it top marks all around. This villa is not your typical rental property. It is clearly a second home, which the owners rent out part of the year. <br><br> In residence at the villa is a full time housekeeper, Mariel, who lives in a separate basement apartment. Mariel makes a big difference to ...

... St John where we spent a fun filled relaxing week. We saw Dad off into the Great Blue Yonder as he set sail for the final leg of his voyage back to Greece. It was a very sad farewell, but we were comforted that we couldn't have had a better reunion and we left him with enough chocolate biscuits to sink a small ship. This may be the last entry for a while as I depart to a yoga ashram for a month with no phone or internet connection, and ...

... week. Goodbyes were exchanged with our dear British friends that we made during the last two weeks at our 2nd dinner seating and to other friends made on the ship.<br><br>Being our last evening on board of Caribbean Princess, regretfully, we retreated to our room early in the evening in order to start packing in preparation of tomorrow's disembarkation day. We were informed by Princess that all of our luggages had to be outside the room's door by ...

... jumping all around the place, snapping pictures here and there of these natural wonders. Of all of the BVI's, these big huge boulders can only be found here, on the Virgin Gorda island. Nobody can explain why. <br><br>After Mi had enough of swimming, we explored the secluded natural passages of the boulders. It was fantastic. Water rising in between the boulders, the bright sunny sun smiling at us, the beautiful blue sky with cottony white ...

... was a very pleasant tour which lasted 4 hours. Before boarding the ship, we shopped around the port, had lunch and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon by walking around. We also visited several boutiques and jewelery stores. Souvenirs were purchased. Mi bought me a Genuine Rainbow Sapphire bracelet set with diamonds. <br><br>As the ship slowly made its way out of the harbour, the sun was ...

... Cay Marina and bid our friendly captain Mike farewell for an awesome 3 days. That afternoon, after having a bite to eat at Nanny Cay we had nearly forgotten we had a rental car from the resort we were staying at, waiting in the parking lot for us. We waited for a taxi for 20mins whilst all along about 20-feet standing near our car! Well, we certainly felt silly about this, especially when our 6 year old asked "where's our car?". After piling into our SUV, we pulled out our ...

... A hard life. We have to hustle to get over to Bomba's Full Moon Party, and running late already. Luckily, we called Ranny and organised for him to pick us up at the ferry terminal back on Tortola. Or so we thought, but after waiting for an hour, we decided he had other things to do. So..once again we stuck out them digits and hitched back to Cane Garden, got ourselves shipshape and hit the road down to Bomba's shack. We pulled ...

... wife, June flew down to meet him after the passage and joined us aboard Quest for another week of island hopping in the British Virgin Islands. George and June have spent time on Tortola and Jost Van Dyke and introduced us to several locals. We enjoyed a totally unique experience on Thanksgiving with George, June, Phil and his crew, John at Foxy's - a famous classic island beach bar - with pounding reggae, incredible turkey dinner and ...

Day 5, Thurs May 25 - Our last island stop was Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Not at all far from St. Thomas, but we spent 12 hours zig-zagging around in the ocean before we docked around 8am or so. I guess the ship didn't want to pay all the docking fees - plus I'm sure they want to keep you on board to keep spending money there! At this point I had terrible sunburn that hurt reeeally bad, the worst on the tops of my shoulders and upper back and neck. I don't ...

... snorkeling, excellent swimming and a beautiful shoreline vista. We were sailing wing on wing toward Sopers Hole to replenish the frig and freezer when Carolyn radioed us to invite us to join them at Cane Garden Bay. Mark thought that with the weather the table should be ready for its final finishing steps. After our supply stop and our eventless BVI check-out for the next day, we headed around Steele Point and up the northwest coast of Tortola to Cane Garden Bay. We took a detour ...