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Lime Out’s St. John floating taco bar is in Coral Bay. On October 2, 2026, its website reported seasonal closure and announced October 11 for St. John’s reopening; confirm directly before arranging a visit. Access is by boat only—swimming, kayaking and paddleboarding out are prohibited. Select St. John, not the separate St. Thomas location.
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Restaurants
Lime Out’s St. John floating taco bar is in Coral Bay. On October 2, 2026, its website reported seasonal closure and announced October 11 for St. John’s reopening; confirm directly before arranging a visit. Access is by boat only—swimming, kayaking and paddleboarding out are prohibited. Select St. John, not the separate St. Thomas location.
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Hotels & Stays
A resort on Lovango Cay, a private island off St. John reached by ferry from Cruz Bay or Red Hook. The beach club has a 70-foot infinity pool, dining, shopping, snorkeling and hiking, and looks out on St. Thomas, St. Croix and the British Virgin Islands.
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Boat Charters
Private charters on 33-foot World Cat power catamarans carrying up to twelve passengers, leaving from Cruz Bay on St. John and Sapphire Beach Marina on St. Thomas. Trips visit St. John, St. Thomas, Jost Van Dyke, Tortola, Virgin Gorda and Norman Island.
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Boat Charters
Power catamarans running private charters out of Cruz Bay on St. John since 2005. A day out clears customs on the way, makes two to five stops around St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola and the British Virgin Islands, and comes back through US Customs.
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Nightlife & Bars
St. John Brewers pours its own bottles, cans and drafts on the second floor of Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, alongside a pub-style food menu. The brewery's production and hospitality center is at Contant on St. Thomas.
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Attractions
Two-thirds of St. John is national park. Trails lead to historic plantation sites and to ancient petroglyphs made by the Indigenous Taino, and visitors snorkel the coral reefs inside the park. Reaching it means a flight to St. Thomas and a ferry across.
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Boat Charters
Private and shared catamaran day trips out of St. John and St. Thomas, running to the USVI and BVI, with snorkeling, swimming and beach time. The M/V Voodoo carries up to 49 guests and the M/V Vorado seats 12.
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Restaurants
Fresh seafood and hand-rolled sushi at Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, with the dining room set inside the complex itself.
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Culture & History
Quarters of enslaved people, the sugar factory, the animal mill and the windmill still stand at Annaberg, looking out over the surrounding hillsides and Leinster Bay on St. John. Interpretation covers the global sugar market that drove slavery and colonialism in the Virgin Islands. The National Park Service also publishes 3D reconstructions of the structures through its Atlantic Slave Trade Project.
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Transportation
A vehicle-rental and taxi company at 171 Contant Enighed on St. John, which picks renters up in Cruz Bay.
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Shopping & Provisions
An art gallery, bookstore, cafe and rum and wine bar in one space at Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, going more than thirty years. Aged rums are poured in tasting flights, and the shop carries traditional Virgin Islands market baskets and other handmade work. It also hosts exhibitions, readings and book signings.
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Italian cooking from the chef's inherited family recipes, up a small staircase in downtown Cruz Bay. The dining room is a small enclosed space, and the kitchen and its bar are small to match.
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Hotels & Stays
Six stand-alone villas share a mountaintop on Route 108, St. John, four of them with two bedrooms and two with one. The outlook takes in the east end of St. John and the British Virgin Islands, and there is a shared pool and spa complex.
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Culture & History
One of the few sites on St. John where a plantation windmill still stands, a Danish colonial period ruin reached by the rough road that runs up to it.
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Shopping & Provisions
Chelsea Drug Store is a full-service pharmacy on the second floor of The Marketplace at Estate Enighed (Route 107) just outside Cruz Bay. Beyond prescriptions, local villa guides note everyday trip supplies such as sunscreen, bug spray, gift cards, and beach items. Confirm hours by phone before you rely on it for same-day needs.
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Hotels & Stays
Cinnamon Bay on St. John’s North Shore offers bare campsites, eco-tents and cottages with direct beach access. For a beach day, the operator lists Rain Tree Cafe meals, a lunch food truck and rentals of snorkel gear, paddleboards, kayaks and chairs. Confirm your chosen accommodation or day-use services before travelling.
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Culture & History
Taino people settled Cinnamon Bay before Danish colonists built a sugar plantation worked by enslaved Africans, and a half-mile boardwalk loop now runs through its ruins from the beach parking lot on St. John's North Shore Road. The one-mile Cinnamon Bay Trail climbs from east of the ruins to Centerline Road, with a 0.38-mile spur to the America Hill great house.
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Shopping & Provisions
Elaine Estern's working watercolor studio and gallery at 264 Tobacco Road on Frank Bay, just outside Cruz Bay on St. John. Her signature paintings show a scene above and below the waterline at once, and she paints the view from her own front porch. Prints, framed tile murals, notecards and gifts are for sale.
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Hotels & Stays
Studio, two-bedroom and three-bedroom waterfront condominium suites at 268 Estate Enighed on St. John, each with a full kitchen and a large oceanfront patio. Two buildings enclose a pool and patio between the Caribbean Sea on one side and an Audubon wildlife pond on the other.
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Villas and rustic ridge-line cabanas at Concordia on St. John. Guests snorkel at Salt Pond Bay and hike from the property up the mountain.
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Restaurants
Casual dining at 6D Cruz Bay Town on St. John, by the ferry in downtown Cruz Bay, with its own coffee shop and a creamery alongside.
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Hotels & Stays
Estate Lindholm sits on the hillside above Cruz Bay Harbor at 6B Estate Caneel Bay on St. John, an inn among restored Danish ruins and adjoining the National Park. Dutch planters first settled the site in the 1720s.
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Restaurants
A Cruz Bay restaurant on St. John built around a three-course tasting menu: appetizer, salad and entrée. Extra Virgin grows most of its herbs on site and buys most of its fish from local fishermen.
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Beaches
Turtles, long swims and snorkeling along the rock shoreline at the north end, inside Virgin Islands National Park on St. John. A boardwalk follows the salt pond behind the beach for birding, and a trail climbs to the remains of a Great House and the Francis Sugar Factory.
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