Where a private boat can take you for the day
The stops private day charters from St. Thomas and St. John visit, island by island. Each page is the boat day: which dock you leave from, the run, where the boat moors, passports, and what captains bid on real trips. For the beaches, bars and food ashore, each links its guide on VIslandGuide.
St. Thomas USVISt. Thomas charters →
Magens Bay
Arguably the Caribbean's most famous beach.
By private boat →Honeymoon Beach
Water Island's main beach (Druif Bay).
By private boat →Christmas Cove & Pizza Pi
A protected anchorage off Great St. James with Pizza Pi, the wood-fired pizza boat you order from by VHF.
By private boat →Lime Out St. Thomas
The second Lime Out barge, moored in Lindbergh Bay with swim-up seats and lily-pad floats, reached by the Taco Tug from Crown Bay or a ten-minute boat from Emerald Beach; the same eight tacos as Coral Bay.
By private boat →St. John USVISt. John charters →
Trunk Bay
National Park beach with the world-famous underwater snorkeling trail.
By private boat →Maho Bay
Shallow, protected NPS beach famous for sea turtle and stingray encounters just a few feet from shore.
By private boat →Waterlemon Cay
Flat coastal hike to Waterlemon Cay — the best snorkeling on St. John.
By private boat →Lime Out St. John
The floating taco bar in Coral Bay. Swim up for a margarita, then carry on to Salt Pond or Hurricane Hole.
By private boat →Honeymoon Beach
Former Caneel Bay resort beach, reachable by a 15-min hike from Cruz Bay or by water taxi.
By private boat →Lovango Cay
Crescent Beach, a small swim-in beach on Lovango's north shore facing Congo Cay, reached by a steep trail of about 20 minutes from the resort.
By private boat →Jost Van Dyke BVI · passportJost Van Dyke charters →
Soggy Dollar Bar
The swim-up beach bar where the Painkiller was invented. A must-stop on any BVI island-hopping charter.
By private boat →
Great Harbour
JVD's main harbour and a calmer overnight than White Bay.
By private boat →Little Harbour
A snug, calm harbour just east of Great Harbour, ringed by three classic old-school boat-bars.
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Sandy Spit
Tiny uninhabited sand island off JVD's east end.
By private boat →Bubbly Pool & Diamond Cay
Anchor off the protected national-park cay and hike 15 minutes to the Bubbly Pool — a natural rock jacuzzi where Atlantic swells surge through a cleft in the cliffs (best with some north swell).
By private boat →B-Line Beach Bar
A barefoot beach bar on an otherwise empty islet, with the Bubbly Pool hike across on the Jost side.
By private boat →Tortola BVI · passportTortola charters →
Cane Garden Bay
A sweeping crescent of white sand on Tortola's north shore, with beach bars and live music.
By private boat →Soper's Hole
The pastel-painted West End marina — a great first or last BVI stop.
By private boat →Smuggler's Cove
Remote, sheltered cove at the far west end of the north shore.
By private boat →Brewers Bay
A peaceful north-shore anchorage with arguably the best shore snorkeling on Tortola — reefs wrap both headlands of the bay.
By private boat →Trellis Bay
Right by the airport (handy for crew swaps) and famous for its fire-ball full-moon party.
By private boat →Norman Island BVI · passport
Norman Island
Snorkel the caves at Treasure Point, then the Willy T, the floating bar in the Bight.
By private boat →Willy T
The William Thornton, a floating bar anchored in the Bight since 1989 and the wildest afternoon in the BVI: Painkillers, the shot-ski, and the leap from the upper deck.
By private boat →The Caves
The Treasure Point caves are the Bight's best-known snorkel and get crowded from 10 to 2.
By private boat →The Indians
Four rock pinnacles and the BVI's most-visited snorkel.
By private boat →Peter Island BVI · passport
Salt Island BVI · passport
Cooper Island BVI · passport
Scrub Island & Marina Cay BVI · passport
Marina Cay
The tiny island Robb White wrote about.
By private boat →Scrub Island
A unique pairing: tiny 8-acre Marina Cay (made famous by Robb White's 'Our Virgin Island'; its bar and grill is run by Scrub Island Resort since 2023 and closes for part of the autumn) beside the full-service Scrub Island Resort.
By private boat →Virgin Gorda BVI · passportVirgin Gorda charters →
The Baths
Giant granite boulders forming sea caves and grottos, one of the most photographed spots in the Caribbean.
By private boat →
North Sound
The sailing landmark of North Sound: a protected anchorage, restaurants, and the gateway to Anegada.
By private boat →Saba Rock
A tiny private island you can walk around in minutes, smack in the middle of North Sound — famous for its sunset rum bar, fresh lobster and the resident tarpon that swarm the dock at feeding time.
By private boat →Bitter End
The BVI's most storied sailing resort, rebuilt after Irma.
By private boat →Anegada BVI · passport
Anegada
The most remote BVI island — a flat coral atoll 28ft above the sea, ringed by one of the Caribbean's longest barrier reefs.
By private boat →Loblolly Bay
Anegada's best-known beach: a long curve of white sand on the north shore with the reef close enough to snorkel from the beach.
By private boat →Cow Wreck Beach
West-facing beach on the north-west shore.
By private boat →Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Trunk Bay, Navin75, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Soggy Dollar Bar, User:Mattes, CC BY 2.0 de · Great Harbour, Mattes, CC BY 2.0 de · Sandy Spit, giggel, CC BY 3.0 · Cane Garden Bay, Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Norman Island, Matt & Nayoung, CC BY 2.0 · The Caves, Matt & Nayoung, CC BY 2.0 · Cooper Island, giggel, CC BY 3.0 · The Baths, P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · North Sound, kansasphoto, CC BY 2.0 · Bitter End, kansasphoto, CC BY 2.0.
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