Family Snorkel Excursion and what to do after?

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Hello everyone,

 

This is our first trip to St. Thomas as a family of 5 with 3 kids 8 years being the oldest.

 

We are looking for suggestions / advice on a great snorkeling excursion that will take us out on a catamaran and will allow us to snorkel and swim to the beach? Does anyone have any suggestions recommendations on a great trip that the kids will love as well as the adults? We have a 1 year old with us as well so snorkeling will be out of the question but can go to the beach to play while with one adult and the other snorkel.

 

Based on what i've read around most of these types of excursions are roughly 3-4 hours long which will leave us with 4 hours left in the day before boarding back on our ship.

 

Does anyone have any other recommendations on what to do after we get back from our snorkel excursion? It seems that there will be a total of 5 or 6 ships in that day keeping that in mind as well. Do we have enough time to go to a beach? Is it worth it to take a taxi there at that time of day and spend 2 hours on the beach? Will we have a hard time finding a chair/umbrella to rent?

 

I would love to hear any suggestions!

 

thank you