Mountain Top St. Thomas burns down!

Post by **Anthony** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:11 am

Wow:

http://www.onepaper.com/stthomasvi/?p=1223618647

St. Thomas just lost Mountain Top and the Atlantis Submarine in a couple of weeks. It will be a different St. Thomas for a lot of tourists - and residents.

linne · Post by **linne** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:25 am

What a pity. When we were on STT we tried to find Mountain Top, but never succeeded. I have always thought that if we return I want to see the place. But how long time will it take before the top is, as it was before the fire?

Linne

Post by **Anthony** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:31 am

That is a good question - will be interesting to see if they plan to rebuild or not. I could imagine this attraction being gone for a long time.

Captain John · Post by **Captain John** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:40 am

I watched this from my deck here on St. John. Pretty spectacular.

Connie · Post by **Connie** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:04 am

Definetly one of the best view on STT. I will miss it.

Just driving up to Mountain Top was a beautiful drive.

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:25 am

just saw this on a Facebook update. what a shame!

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:06 am

That's awful. I can't get into the onepaper link. What was the cause? Not arson, I hope.

Post by **Anthony** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:11 am

The article was brief and there wasn't any cause mentioned yet. I would think there will be more news eventually -

chicagoans · Post by **chicagoans** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:13 am

My heart goes out to those who worked there and have suddenly lost their jobs. I'm glad there were no injuries.

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:12 pm

While I'm sorry to see any business affected like this I was never much of a fan.

I had a friend who worked up there and was a bartender. She made the "world famous banana daiquiries" that they charged a TON of money for and she always felt so bad cause she knew she was totally ripping people off with the sub par watered down drinks. She worked there for years.

It was a nice view though.

They used to house some exotic birds up there who did tricks for the tourists. I hope they are OK.

Connie · Post by **Connie** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:50 pm

Gromit, the last three times I was there, I never saw the birds...so maybe they're gone.

They don't water those drinks down all the time...because there was no way I could finish a second one the last time I went.

All those people with the stores up there, I feel very sorry for them. Always had cruise ship people up there and I'm sure for alot of them, it was their living.

DCphoto · Post by **DCphoto** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:57 pm

We went up there on our last trip, the views were amazing, we took the tram up. Is this the same place? There were shops and birds there. I did have one of those expensive drinks, but they were good!
Not sure I would do it again, but is was fun. Sorry to hear about the fire, hopefully they will rebuild.

Sandy

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:01 pm

Anthony wrote: I could imagine this attraction being gone for a long time.

Just wondering - did you possibly mean "I could not imagine this attraction being gone for a long time"?

Connie · Post by **Connie** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:27 pm

DC, your talking about Paradise Point. Mountaintop doesn't have a tram.

Post by **Anthony** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:57 pm

augie wrote:
Anthony wrote: I could imagine this attraction being gone for a long time.
Just wondering - did you possibly mean "I could not imagine this attraction being gone for a long time"?

No - I mean gone - as in not rebuilt - for a longgggggg time. The mountain will be there of course...

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Mountain Top St. Thomas burns down!

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