St. Thomas Beach Crowds

[gr82cu2]

I am going on a cruise to St Thomas in Jan 08 and there will be 5 ships in port that day. Does anyone know how early the beaches start getting crowded....and where is the lest crowded beach?????

 

The first ships arrive in port at 7am

One ship at 8am

We arrive at 9

and the last one gets there at 10

[richtersl]

Magens Beach and Coki Beach will be the most crowded. All 5 of those ships will have excursions to these beaches.

 

Some less crowded beaches are listed here. All have gotten good reviews here on this forum:

• Sapphire Beach (great views, great snorkeling).
  
• Secret Harbour (great snorkeling, nice views, nice restaurant on premesis)
  
• Emerald Beach (poor snorkeling, calm waters, nice little beach).
  
• Morningstar Beach (nice beach bar, poor snorkeling)

You can also look into go to Water Island. It's a small island just outside of Charlotte Amalie. Lots of good reviews here on Water Island too. Your ship may have an excursion to Water Island. It's deifnitely worth consideringif it is offered.

[Darkwolfe]

While Coki will be crowded, all the extra people will attract some of the little striped fish (don't know the name) that are common there.

 

We did a SNUBA tour there in Jan 07 and it wasn't really bad. Even scared up a turtle about 20 feet down and 100 feet from shore.

 

Coral World is right next door if it interests you. It's an older marine park, but reasonably entertaining. You can feed some small stingrays at an open air tank for example. (The ray are de-barbed)

[The Islander]

You can check out a beach guide for St. Thomas for photos/description of beaches. Try http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=st.+thomas+beach+guide&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

 

--Islander