British Virgin Islands

Best snorkeling around, lots and lots of fish.
Water is very pretty, land is pretty, stars are pretty.
A plus for me, i went during a huge meteor shower.
But regardless if your going sailing, make it here.

Being a small group of islands, transportation is limited. There are 113km of roads. The main airport (Terrence B. Lettsome Airport, also known as Beef Island Airport) is located on Beef Island, which lies off the eastern tip of Tortola. Virgin Gorda and Anegada have their own smaller airports. The main harbour is in Road Town.       

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas. Columbus gave them the fanciful name Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes (Saint Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins), shortened to Las Vírgenes (The Virgins), after the legend of Saint Ursula.       

Most beautiful place – ever. The people there were all nice, I would definetly recommend it to everyone!

I visited the Virgin islands in Feb ‘05, it was beautiful there, i would definatly go back for a nice relaxing beach vacation again

Was with my pop when I was in 1989. We chartered a decent sized sailboat out of Tortola and cruised around the Sir Francis Drake Channel. I learned a life lesson about sunblock. It’s hard to sleep with a sunburn harder still in a boat with a sunburn.

A wonderful place rapidly being consumed. Go quick. I’m going for my 8th time in Jan of 07 with pop for his 60th.
Love ya DAD.

My wife and I chartered a sailboat and island hopped for a week. It was wonderful. The people are carefree and the water is refreshing. Make sure you hit up Willy T’s if you are daring.

Definitely make time for a Carib while you’re down there.

GO! You’ll LOVE IT.

The beaches are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, the people are so cool, everyone is so nice, the water is amazing, the food is so good, it was just to relaxing. They have hammocks hanging from allt the trees on some of the islands and you can just lie down underneath a palm tree. They have all these little cafe type things where you can eat the best food. I really loved it, I went back again!

I once spent three weeks sailing around these beautiful islands. They were my first tropical islands – my devirginizing experience of them, you could say – and nothing can compare. No matter what other tropical beach getaway experiences I’ve had/will have – Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, etc – I’m always comparing it to the BVI. And maybe for nostalgic reasons alone, the BVI wins.