I have a colleague who fell and fractured her shoulder and hip while in Israel and had to have surgery and stay in the hospital for a couple of weeks. Her trip insurance (included medical) covered that cost and made all the arrangements for a paramedic escort and ambulance from the hospital to the a...

Ohhh, fun! We are cheating on St. John this year, too, and VG was number one on the list for a while. I read a ton of the trip reports here, and look forward to reading yours too. Guavaberry gets a lot of love - hope you have a great time! It is so beautiful in VG!!

We rented from Discount last year. We somehow got lost (don't ask me how!! we had no problems on the way back) on our way to the car ferry, ended up on a crazy dead-end road in the middle of nowhere. Very frustrating. It did NOT feel like our vacation had started early at all, like I was hoping. It ...

Little Lameshur HANDS DOWN! I'm shocked it's even up for debate. Different strokes for different folks. I think it's the best beach on the island.....

We do KYSS bag too. Love it!

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I like spending my last night on St. John and waking up with the roosters in the early morning. I usually wake up around 4:30, pull out of Coral Bay at 5:20 and I'm one of the first in line for the 6AM car barge. There's very little traffic driving across St. T...

Our villa in Coral Bay offered to have their villa manager stock the villa for us, so we took advantage of that. It was awesome as we only had to pay cost + tip, but I would opt for provisioning even with the extra fees tacked on the provisioning businesses. We did shop for additional items at the m...

Anything available online? Does anyone know the name of the artist whose work is displayed at the smoothie stand?

Thanks!
-Not-such-a-StJohnNewbie-Anymore

Feet, Fins & Four-Wheel Drive. That book is the bomb. It totally made our St. John trips, the first one especially. I mean, we took all the car tour, and when it said, "When you go around this turn, you'll see pigs crossing the road," we came around the curve and what did we see? PIGS ...

We have the Kyss beach bag and love it. Have used it two years in St. John, but it is nice so many other times too. I do agree it would be nice to have one to use with a backpack for a lot of the beaches in STJ. I'm sure you'll be happy with what you got. I saw someone wearing beach chairs as a back...

Aside from a trip to St. John, of course. (And I know this isn't technically St. John, but for me it is part of St. John.)




My father-in-law with his creation. So cool, right?

Sorry, I hate to say it. Overrated: Vie's. The food wasn't anything special and the bugs were horrific. Underrated: Provisioning! Can't believe (based on the topic I started) that people have tried it once and not done it again. I guess it all boils down to different strokes for different folks. We ...

I'm guessing no, but curious to find out!

One thing on the carrying on, it counts torwards your carry on limit. Seems obvious now, but we are wishing we had checked one of our carry on bags this morning.

Sounds easy! Last year I thought I heard someone being told that they would still have to check the alcohol, even buying it after we had gone through security, but it sounds like that is not the case. Thanks!

How exactly does buying liquor in the airport and taking it home work? Any tips?