TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums British Virgin Islands Scrub Island, ranked as a stop? Favorite bays/snorkels

What do you all think about a stop at Scrub? We have never done it and my wife likes a slide! We love BYC and Saba. We are going to try Peter now that it’s back open. We enjoy snorkeling and quieter bays.

Crew this trip: Wife, son (26) and his wife, Brother in law, his wife and their girls (16 and 18) (8 total)
We have bareboated in the BVIs 2016, 2018, and 2022.’

I would rank stops at bays:

1. White Bay, Jost Van Dyke
2. Bight, Norman
3. BYC/Saba, North Sound, Virgin Gorda
4. Baths, Virgin Gorda
5. Manchioneel Bay, Cooper

Favorite snorkels:

1. Indians
2. Monkey Point, Guana Island
3. Great Dog
4. Caves, Norman Island
5. RMS Rhône, Salt

Thoughts or rankings?

if you go to Scrub (and we like it) you have some good snorkeling at Diamond Cay...sometimes we just moor at Marina Cay and dinghy to scrub

I like Marina Cay and had a wonderful lunch there a couple of months ago. I have never been a big Scrub fan but others love it.A lunch and afternoon swim and snorkel at MC would be it for me..plus I'd drop another stop and go to Anegada

How are the dinner options at Scrub? How about Marina Cay's food since it re-opened?

We like Scrub

$200 or more docking fee with add-ons

Donovan's Reef has a pretty good $25 menu and we have watched the Super Bowl on big screen there

We often dock there the first night / this allows stragglers arriving at the airport to ferry over

we enjoyed the food at Marina Cay recognizing I am not a foodie...scrub is typically our mid trip spot on a 2 week rotation or at the end when we have to send someone home early. Food at Scrub and docking as prieviously posted is pricey

Thanks for the feedback! We used to dock at Scrub, but it fell off our priority list some years ago - so I was trying to determine if it was worth a try again. I’d love to spent a night in White Bay, Guana on a cook-in night, but the wind direction never seems to be good when we are in that area. Maybe one day!

Never did White Bay, Guana but always thought that would be good as well. We did Marina Cay last time on ball on northern end close to MC and then dinghied to Scrub. We also snorkeled Diamond Cay and I took the dinghy around watching the snorkelers as there can be a lot of boat traffic. RW was out of town so we didnt see them up on the hill. Also note when windy docking at Scrub can be a white knuckle experience...

Hope all is well my friend

Thanks Rob! I agree about backing into Scrub - especially with the larger boats these days. Hope to see you again at some point!