I'm far from an expert on snorkel gear, but my wife and I purchased snorkel gear from Amazon and it worked great for us. We bought the U.S. Divers Cozumel snorkel set, found here: http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Divers-Cozumel-Seabreeze-Proflex/dp/B000EM2RZ0/ref=sr_1_1/002-9278228-8722461?ie=UTF8&s=sp...

Good find on that airfare! We recently flew out of O'hare for $330/person and that seemed to be a good price, so this is a steal. Not sure what qualifies as "inexpensive" for you, but we stayed at Meritage Cottage (www.meritagestjohn.com)and loved it! Thanks to someone's recommendation on ...

Here is my two cents. We rented a two-door Vitara (not a Grand Vitara) from Courtesy Car Rental for two of us and it was just what we needed. We never had any problems not having enough 'juice' to get us up the steep hills and the 4WD worked well when needed. When the roads were slick from the rain ...

Wow, all these insider tips that I have to learn about! Thanks everyone for your help, I feel like I know my way around the island already even though I've never been there. I'll definitely leave a trip report after we return. One more question, which is more broad than the others I've asked. Just c...

Thanks for all of your pointers! And FYI we will be on STJ for one week. Based on timing and costs I think that we may consider taking the ferry to JVD towards the end of our trip, if we don't feel like we'd be missing out on some quality time on STJ. Do we need to make reservations for those ferrie...

In less than two weeks my fiancee and I will be in St. John for our honeymoon and we can't wait! This will be our first trip to the VI and the forum has been a huge help to us...thanks to everyone! As we are making final plans for our trip we've thought of a few questions that we're hoping some of y...

Thanks to everyone for their recomendations and reviews! We've booked Meritage Cottage for our honeymoon, thanks to Knolmom for letting us know about the special deal they are offerring. We could not be more excited about staying there for our honeymoon. Though we've found there are many great place...

Thanks for everyone's recommendations. We've narrowed it down to these four villas: Gardenia (www.cloud9villas.com/Gardenia) Calabash Views (www.calabashviews.com) Meritage Cottage (www.meritagestjohn.com/cottage.html) Astral Cottage (www.coralbayvacations.com/astral_cottage.shtml) They all seem to ...

You guys are great, thanks for all of the replies! I posted a similar question on two other forums at about the same time yesterday - and I stil don't have any responses. Thank you for the reviews and recommendations, I'll let you know where we end up staying and I'll be sure to leave a review follo...

Pia wrote:I just wish owners would be more truthful in descriptions or at least update their pictures and info on the website more often.

Agreed! Thanks for giving us more some more factual details. I guess "new" is a relative term.

Pia, thanks for your honest review. It seems that you truly do get what you pay for - not a bad place to stay but not as "nice" as other properties. It's always difficult to truly determine the quality of a place based on a few pictures on a website, so I appreciate hearing from someone wh...

Thanks for you responses. Rick, Stairway to the Stars looks perfect for us - thanks for the recommendation - though sadly they are booked for the week we'll be there. I've bookmarked them for a future trip though! VRBO.com also looks like an amazing resource, thanks. It does seem that everyone has b...

Hello Friends, Another long time "lurker" here who is finally coming out of the shadows. Thanks to all of you for already helping with my travel plans! My fiancee and I will be making our first visit to St. John for our honeymoon later this year and this forum has been very helpful to us a...

First time poster here, so my advice isn't what I'd consider expert. I've had success monitoring fares on www.sidestep.com. This site is very similar to kayak.com - it will monitor fares from both airline's websites and sites such as Expedia. We booked a September flight in May when we saw prices dr...