Renting car in St Thomas
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:54 am
I've read through a lot of the existing posts on this forum, but still can't decide based on our circumstances: Should we rent a car in St. Thomas?
We are staying at Sugar Bay, doing the all inclusive. Thus, we do not HAVE to leave the property. But we want to: we want to take a day trip to St Johns, we want to try a bunch of beaches on St Thomas, and we want to drive around the island and sight-see on St Thomas.
The major issue is that we have 2 young kids. If we rely on taxis, we will have to constantly be installing our car seats into taxis and taking them out. So if we want to go to Magen's beach, for ex, we take a taxi there, then take out our car seats, and then we have the car seats with us at the beach - what a pain. And based on the nature of the cabs on St John (i.e., impossible to use car seat for baby/kids), I think we have to rent our own car to get there..
But lots of the forums on this discussion advise people to not rent a car - it's hard driving on left hand side, people drive crazy, we're doing an all-inclusive anyway. So should we just rely on taxis? Help!!
We are staying at Sugar Bay, doing the all inclusive. Thus, we do not HAVE to leave the property. But we want to: we want to take a day trip to St Johns, we want to try a bunch of beaches on St Thomas, and we want to drive around the island and sight-see on St Thomas.
The major issue is that we have 2 young kids. If we rely on taxis, we will have to constantly be installing our car seats into taxis and taking them out. So if we want to go to Magen's beach, for ex, we take a taxi there, then take out our car seats, and then we have the car seats with us at the beach - what a pain. And based on the nature of the cabs on St John (i.e., impossible to use car seat for baby/kids), I think we have to rent our own car to get there..
But lots of the forums on this discussion advise people to not rent a car - it's hard driving on left hand side, people drive crazy, we're doing an all-inclusive anyway. So should we just rely on taxis? Help!!