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I’d stick with Orient if you were planning to stay in the Orient Village. Greenery, walkable, beautiful beach with multiple restaurants with padded chairs. Maho is a busy span of concrete, not very tropical. Simpson area is great if you like a busy road, high rises and casinos.

Anyone know which bars or restaurants might be showing the NHL playoffs in the Maho area? Arriving Sunday.

Second that for Maho area but also look into Simpson Bay Resort and the Flamingo. Nice swim beach, activities, easy walking to restaurants and usually seaweed free.

Great pictures of fun times.👍

But drinking lots of water makes me pee more which isn't much fun.🥃🍷🍸😉

Maho is extremely walkable. Mullet Bay is one of the best beaches on the island and just up the street. The Royal Islander is right on the beach with a fanastic pool and a two bedroom rental there is pretty reasonalble

I’ll add Lee’s to the list for our next visit.

I’m seriously thinking of extending our stays to at least two weeks. 10 nights is not enough.

Hi! We live in Apex just down the road from you. The process is doable, but there are steps. To clear out, you enter all of the information for the boat and the people in www.sailclear.com. You then report a departure on this website and take a picture of the number/code so you can share this as you clear out in a BVI Customs office. You then report arrival using the Roam app in the USVI. You do not have to report your departure out of the USVI when you leave, but you will need to clear back in when you go into the BVI. Bring your paperwork. The whole process should be less than $200. We have learned some things about doing this, so if you would like to talk, send me a PM. For example, we clear in and out of the Jost office, but you do not want to be there in the morning when all the day boats are clearing.Good luck!

If you want to walk to the beach and walk to dinner, I would recommend orient bay. The beach is raked daily and the water is usually pretty good.

A great spot. We have known Kereen for 20+ years. Going back to when she worked at LaGondola.

Lee's has a good happy hour also.

Welcome! I would stick with orient beach. They clear the seaweed & plenty of eating options.

As stated in a previous post, renting at Simpson Bay Yacht Club provided an excellent opportunity to walk to many restaurants and bars. We ventured out at night many times this trip.

Fun times were had at Topper’s, Skip Jack’s, Greenhouse, Huppel the Pub and Soggy Dollar, just to name several.

Sorry to hear that you weren’t feeling well. Fortunately you have another three weeks on island.

In addition to wine, drink lots of water. Jo’s orders! Lol

I'm stocked up for sure. Had a short shower half hour ago but was perfect all day today. Could be questionable tomorrow.

"made sure antibiotic was alcohol friendly". Sounds like something I would say.

The Weather Channel is showing some rain coming your way. Make sure you have provisions so you won't have to drive through Lake Atrium.

Trellis Bay yesterday.

Looks like a nice unit in a great location. I would have a problem with no TV. I have to have my daily FOXnews fix.😆

I was just there parked behind at the Medical Clinic. Started the week with a raging UTI and had to check back on the culture the lab ran to make sure the prescription was correct which is just starting to kick in. Not the way to start out but made sure antibiotic was alcohol friendly. That fruit plate looked great.

Marc had a big problem with it too. Me, not so much. Last month I was on a 12 night cruise, and didn't miss wi-fi or TV one bit. And we're both retired and not working, so no big deal.

The VRBO listing stated Netflix and Prime were included. In the end, we only ended up with Netflix, and not Prime. Of course, Marc wanted to watch a movie on Prime. Oh well, he survived!

Ahoy Captains,

Time to start checking your Raw Water Systems & Filters again.

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https://sargassummonitoring.com/en/official-map-2025/

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I would have a big problem with the TV and wifi not working. It looks nice though.

I thought I’d post a few pictures of our VRBO condo rental Simpson Bay Yacht Club.

The condo has been recently renovated and is spacious and nicely decorated. The outdoor deck is lovely, with a view of the outdoor lap pool and the causeway bridge in the distance. The location is excellent and we walked to Happy Hours and restaurants almost every evening (a huge plus for us).

We did have issues with Wi-Fi, and the TV not working. After much back and forth with the owner (who was in Italy) and the rental manager, the Wi-fi and tv issues got resolved within a few days. The manager was very apologetic and brought us a bottle of wine for the hassle.
(I didn’t even contact them about the dryer that didn’t work.)

Would we stay in this rental unit again? Probably!

https://t.vrbo.io/jgEBS2OvqTb

Thanks for the pics, it's one of our favorite breakfast spots. Just can't eat there every day because it's so filling. Usually skip lunch after a breakfast there.
And yes Kareen is a special person.