One thing thing that you will quickly notice is that the charter boats are all much larger now, and mostly catamarans. Air conditioning is common on charter boats now.

Smuggler's is still the best place to hang out on Tortola, but is off limits to bareboats. Sadly, the honor bar at Smuggler's has been gone for quite a while. There are a couple of good beach vendors there, though, that provide good food and drinks from beneath the trees. Nigel's is the larger of the two, Patricia's the smaller. Both have beach chairs free for customers.

Mooring fields are much busier.

The new bar & grill on Anegada is Ann's, at Cow Wreck Beach - just to the east of Bell's old Cow Wreck. It is quite nice with a much better atmosphere, and has a lot of activities.

Bobby's still does provisioning. RiteWay also does online provisioning now, and is a little bit easier to work with.