St. John or harbour island

[Anonymous]

Big issue with rental cars in St Thomas/St John these days... see if you can find a car for your dates. And the car should NOT be from the airport as many report overbooking and issues standing around waiting for hours. Too many people in the USVI due to Covid restrictions. We are going to Turks, we were going to St John.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big issue with rental cars in St Thomas/St John these days... see if you can find a car for your dates. And the car should NOT be from the airport as many report overbooking and issues standing around waiting for hours. Too many people in the USVI due to Covid restrictions. We are going to Turks, we were going to St John.

Big +1 on the rental car issues. BTDT at the St. Thomas airport. If you are going to go to St. John, better to see if you can find a rental on St. John and take the passenger ferry over. That way if there are issues at least you are on St. John already and can take a taxi until a car is available, vs. stuck at STT.

[Anonymous]

We were just there and had SO MANY car issues. Seconding the nail down the car first rec. Also even prepaying for your airport car res still doesn’t help, they still made us wait multiple hours.

[Anonymous]

Well cars aren’t an issue on Harbour Island!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well cars aren’t an issue on Harbour Island!

This seriously might be reason enough alone to go there instead!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well cars aren’t an issue on Harbour Island!

This seriously might be reason enough alone to go there instead!

Here's to golf carts only!

[Anonymous]

Make sure you reserve a golf cart on HI now. Lots of people going there for months at a time right now..

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t Bahamas require multiple testings throughout your stay? Plus you’d have to test to get back into the US. I’d just visit STX Buccaneer resort or Marriott Carambola.

[Anonymous]

I love St. John, it is very untouched and just stunningly beautiful. Maho beach is just lovely, always calm and beautiful water. I've never found it crowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love St. John, it is very untouched and just stunningly beautiful. Maho beach is just lovely, always calm and beautiful water. I've never found it crowded.

Maho has always been one of our favorites, since the days when only a handful of Jeeps could park in the trees behind the beach! Unfortunately, it has become very crowded due to the parking lot and bar/food stand that was created behind the beach.

[Anonymous]

I found Maho rather crowded to the point where social distancing was difficult to maintain. We were there in Feb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found Maho rather crowded to the point where social distancing was difficult to maintain. We were there in Feb.

This is sad. I have always found St John special because it isn’t crowded. Francis bay is also beautiful, I hope still it has the feeling of being untouched.

[Anonymous]

I would definitely go to HI over St. John’s. Rent a boat for a day so that you can go snorkeling with the turtles. We are heading to the Bahamas this weekend. You need to test before you go to get a health Visa. Once in the Bahamas, one needs to test on day 5 but this can also be used to renter the US.

[Anonymous]

We just got back from the USVIs. Wasn’t our first choice but went because of Covid restrictions elsewhere. We had a wonderful time. I don’t know why people are so snobby about it there. I am also a picky traveler and appreciated it for what it was. We also fell in love with water island which I would recommend you check out.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found Maho rather crowded to the point where social distancing was difficult to maintain. We were there in Feb.

This is sad. I have always found St John special because it isn’t crowded. Francis bay is also beautiful, I hope still it has the feeling of being untouched.

It's crazy because *none* of the beaches we went to on St. Thomas had this problem. Even at Magen's on a weekend, if you went to the side of the beach that's farthest from the bar, you had tons of space to be safe. Other beaches on St. Thomas were far less crowded than Magen's, and we really enjoyed it, and it was far less expensive. St. John is just mobbed right now.