Thanks for the advice everyone. We did purchase trip insurance, but they have no reason to refund our money at this point...I checked with them and to get a refund, there must be a travel warning listed on the US government website OR the villa "uninhabitable". We rolled the dice on a Sept...

Sorry, yes TS Gaston. Not sure how the name Gustav got in my head.

Hi everyone. We have a STJ villa rented for this Friday - Thursday and tried to reschedule due to Gustav and the more recent Earl (This is our first trip to STJ). The villa's management did not give us many options, so our choice is to pack up and head down there Friday...or lose our money :( So we ...