Author: Jason Acosta
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Buck Island Reef: Best of the US Virgin Islands
Buck Island Reef is a 19,015-acre national monument off St. Croix, with a marked underwater snorkel trail through an elkhorn barrier reef. How to visit by boat.
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Lovango Resort + Beach Club: Best of the US Virgin Islands
Lovango Resort + Beach Club is a private-island beach club and resort in the US Virgin Islands, 10 min by boat from St. Thomas & St. John. Day passes from $150.
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ZoZo’s at Caneel Bay: Best of the US Virgin Islands
ZoZo's at Caneel Bay on St. John serves a four-course, $140 prix-fixe dinner with the Virgin Islands' most storied sunset view. How to visit by crewed yacht.
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Pizza Pi: Best of the US Virgin Islands
Pizza Pi is the world's only sailboat pizzeria, moored since 2014 in Christmas Cove off St. Thomas. Here's the floating pizza spot and how to visit by yacht.
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Lime Out: Best of the US Virgin Islands
Lime Out is the boat-only floating taco bar in the US Virgin Islands: 8 tacos, craft cocktails, lily-pad seats. Here's how to reach both locations by yacht.
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Magens Bay: Best of the US Virgin Islands
Magens Bay is St. Thomas's finest beach: heart-shaped, calm, world-famous, $7 to enter. Here's the fee, the crowds to skip, and how to arrive by yacht.
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Sip Sip: Best of Harbour Island
Sip Sip is Harbour Island's legendary lunch spot, reopened June 2025 on Romora Bay Marina. Here's the 3-mile pink sand beach, and how to visit by crewed yacht.
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Compass Cay Marina: Best of the Exumas
Compass Cay Marina, 7.5 nm north of Staniel Cay, is where you swim with wild nurse sharks off the dock. Visit by crewed yacht: fees, tides, and safety.
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Chat ‘N’ Chill: Best of the Exumas
Chat 'N' Chill is the barefoot Stocking Island beach bar, a boaters' hub since 1998: Sunday pig roast, conch salad, and hand-fed stingrays in Elizabeth Harbour.
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Staniel Cay Yacht Club: Best of the Exumas
Staniel Cay Yacht Club is the central Exumas hub — dock-side nurse sharks, with Thunderball Grotto, Pig Beach and Compass Cay under 30 minutes by crewed yacht.