I can't comment as I have no experience but I have to ask what would happen if the second villa was no where near as nice as the first would you be disappointed ? Pia Excellent point! We'd possibly do Astral Ridge our second week bc we've already stayed there. That's another issue I'm having......s...

We've done both -- we stayed two weeks at the same place, and on a different visit, split between two houses. There are advantages to both. If you stay put for 2 weeks, you don't have to do the pack-up-and-leave-the-villa routine twice, so it's more relaxing. You lose track of the passing days a bi...

Awesome report! I swear you could be posting the pics from our trip! I keep telling everyone that the ruins at Lameshur is my next "fixer-upper" house! We also know that lone palm tree in the middle of the beach at Salt Pond. It did us right our full day there. Francis is my heaven on eart...

Since we won't be back to stay on island until 2014 :cry: (we'll be there for a day on a cruise next year), we will be staying 2 weeks :D ! Here's my question: Should we stay at the same villa the entire time or switch half-way? We stayed at Astral Ridge and I can honestly say I've never been so rel...

Since we've been home I've said "I'd kill to smell the Stinky Donkey Dip right now!". Hahaha!!!! We even savored the moment on our last trip by, well as much as we could without gagging.

Need2GetAway wrote:We love to have St. John our adult place. It's such a great vacation to bond and have some romance. No kids, no how.

I'm glad to hear this. Makes me feel lees selfish I live taking my son everywhere, but for some reason I feel the need to keep STJ all to my adult self.

Since we had a fabulous vacation there this year as soon as we got home we started planning for next year with the kids. Welllll, airfare isn't allowing us to do that at this moment and the kids (12 and 13)want to go on a cruise :cry:. I absolutely thought a cruise was the best thing eva until our 1...

Thank y'all for your kind words! Yep, we "got it" in every way imaginable! The kids want to take a cruise next year :shock: , but we may be able to talk them into St John. If not, they'll be left the following year for another adults only vacay :D They didn't go this time because we wanted...

Yay! I'm glad I was actually able to give some good tips!

We were leaving Francis when the ambulance passed us. So sad.

Excellent report but I have a question about the roadside Assistance- shouldn't the car rental dealership send someone to assist you for free if you have rented from them? We have never had a problem but I always assumed they wold help you out if there was a problem. We purchased the roadside assis...

I'm sorry we missed you for Inner Visions! We were able to get into our villa at 1600 that day in Coral Bay and never made it back to Cruz Bay that night.

First of all a huge THANK YOU for everyone that posts here. The good and bad. This forum is invaluable to those of us who are new to St John. I'm not very good at trip reports, I tend to ramble so bear with me. I'm going to divide this into lodging, restaurants, beaches/activities and ruins. We stay...

John, Thanks for the heads up about the cash. I'll get more out than planned. We've already checked out the waggapalooza! If I could bring a pet home, I would! We'll also look for ya at High Tide Sunday! surfnh, That's good to know about Soggys. We will be there on Keoka and planned on getting some ...

You gals are great! I'll throw those in the bags in the morning......probably need to tape note on the door since we leave for he airport at 0430