My sister lives in Irvine and she emailed me last night about the earthquake, she said it's the first one that has really shook hard since she moved to CA three years ago.

I hope you get your power on soon and I'm sure you're looking forward to your trip to St John more than ever now. We were fortunate to only lose our power for 24 hours (during the ice storm of '98 it was 4 days). My brother who lives just outside Concord got his power on late yesterday afternoon and...

We were at Cinnamon Bay last Tuesday, it was very quiet and peaceful and we had an area of the beach to ourselves and then a couple, which we just happened to be sitting next to earlier that morning at JJ's, walked in with a boombox a little ways down the beach where there were more people, set it d...

I recieved ours this week, I bought the 12-pack and 24-pack. The 12-pack would be fine if we were going to use it just for packing our lunch for the beach but I think we're going to take the larger one so we can pack some frozen meats and my husband needs his Diet Mt Dew and I'm not sure how readily...

We're leaving for St Thomas on the 29th, hadn't planned on going to Coral World but we may consider it now (it seems very "touristy", I guess that's why we skipped it during our first visit to the VI's two summers ago). Do the tickets get mailed or can you pick them up at Coral World? I do...

Not the OP here but thanks for the response mrscaptainjay. My husband, teen daughter and I will be doing the exact same thing in a couple of weeks and I'd forgotten about being able to park behind Marina Market. When we first visited two summers ago we did a daytrip to the BVI's with Limnos and it w...

FYI - I just entered the 24-pack and 6-pack, thinking I would get only the 6-pack free but it actually deducted 50% of the total price so you CAN mix and match. I just can't decide which one to buy for traveling. I wish the 12-pack was more square vs long and narrow. We probably wouldn't use it to p...

I was reading the thread this morning that you're referring to and I have no idea what that persons issue was!! :? As far as I'm concerned you made a very important and NOT off-topic statement in response to another post, you stated a fact and nothing more but apparently this person was in the mood ...

In my carry on I always make sure I have clothes and bathing suit and stuff I need for a few days in case my checked bag gets lost. In our checked bags I always distribute half of my stuff in hubbies bag and half of hubbies stuff in my bag. One set of fins and snorkel gear in each bag (we both wear...

Darn, that's the day we fly home.

Thanks for your replies. As it turns out the Loft is already rented for the nights we're looking for, the Garden suite is available but I think I'm going to pass on that since it's been mentioned on here and elsewhere that it's not as nice as the Loft and is in need of some TLC. At this point I'm le...

I can never seem to figure out how to make the search function work so I'll post a question instead. I'm looking for a reasonably priced place on St John for my husband, teen daughter and I to stay for three nights as part of our upcoming trip to the VI's and I was looking at the Loft Suite in Villa...

It never would have crossed my mind to ask for a discount but I guess I shouldn't be surprised to hear that people ask. If I couldn't afford a villa rental I would make other arrangements, simple as that, which is exactly what we're going to do for our upcoming trip in December. We stayed in a villa...

Pastory Gardens restaurant is now Compass Rose (rumor I heard is it's a old cook or crew from Skinny's) Is there still mini-golf?? :?: When we first visited St John two summers ago we took our teenage daughter there one night to play mini-golf and I was hoping we would be able to do that again duri...