james'mommy Posted August 11, 2012 #1 Share Posted August 11, 2012 DH and I (late 30's) will be in St Croix in April on the Celebrity Summit. We will be traveling with DS, 10. Any suggestions are welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovestx Posted August 13, 2012 #2 Share Posted August 13, 2012 DH and I (late 30's) will be in St Croix in April on the Celebrity Summit. We will be traveling with DS' date=' 10. Any suggestions are welcome.[/quote'] We have never cruised the Caribbean but have stayed on St. Croix 14 times in the past 14 years so can make a few suggestions. If you like snorkeling, beautiful beaches and sailing, I would suggest that you take a trip out to Buck Island, the only underwater National Park. Big Beards is probably the best outfit to go with out of Christiansted. If you want more adventure, you might enjoy an ATV ride and jetski package from Geckosislandadventures.com. They are based in Fredericksted (where you will dock) so it's easy to get to them. You tour the rainforest and some of the westend mountains on the ATVs for about 1 1/2 hours then go jetskiing from Rainbow Beach for an hour. I would suggest going over to the Tripadvisor.com St. Croix forum where you will find many helpful people (my screen name there is ccrosner). If you do a search on Buck Island you will get tons of info about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisechaos Posted August 13, 2012 #3 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I highly recommend Big Beards Adventure Tours. We used them in December to go out to Buck Island. Here is a link to our blog post from that day, if you are interested: http://www.thenextjourney.com/2011/12/st-croix-big-beards-buck-island-bloody-coral/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Vickie Posted August 14, 2012 #4 Share Posted August 14, 2012 You may want to check Virgin Kayak Tours. We'll be doing that on our next St. Croix visit in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovevacadays Posted September 2, 2012 #5 Share Posted September 2, 2012 We have never cruised the Caribbean but have stayed on St. Croix 14 times in the past 14 years so can make a few suggestions. If you like snorkeling, beautiful beaches and sailing, I would suggest that you take a trip out to Buck Island, the only underwater National Park. Big Beards is probably the best outfit to go with out of Christiansted. If you want more adventure, you might enjoy an ATV ride and jetski package from Geckosislandadventures.com. They are based in Fredericksted (where you will dock) so it's easy to get to them. You tour the rainforest and some of the westend mountains on the ATVs for about 1 1/2 hours then go jetskiing from Rainbow Beach for an hour. I would suggest going over to the Tripadvisor.com St. Croix forum where you will find many helpful people (my screen name there is ccrosner). If you do a search on Buck Island you will get tons of info about it. I'm so jealous! I stayed in St. Croix for about a month in the 90's as my then boyfriend was doing some construction work there. I loved it! I haven't returned but I think I need to find a cruise that goes there and go back just to see St. Croix again.:):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchcruz Posted September 23, 2012 #6 Share Posted September 23, 2012 jlmolner, I see you are also on an RCI ship. We wanted to book Virgin Kayak in Jan but our TA told us that RCI stays on Florida time the entire cruise. When I emailed Virgin Kayak they told me we would miss the tour. We are on the Vision in Jan. How did you get around the time change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Vickie Posted September 23, 2012 #7 Share Posted September 23, 2012 jlmolner, I see you are also on an RCI ship. We wanted to book Virgin Kayak in Jan but our TA told us that RCI stays on Florida time the entire cruise. When I emailed Virgin Kayak they told me we would miss the tour. We are on the Vision in Jan. How did you get around the time change? We're sailing out of San Juan, not Florida. San Juan is in the same time zone as St. Croix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchcruz Posted September 23, 2012 #8 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Thanks, makes sense. I think I may just wait until the Vision actually starts to do this itinerary to see if the time change is real or not. We did the Adventure out of San Juan years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngedwards Posted November 22, 2012 #9 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Try Sunbug electric car rentals for sight seeing on the west coast and rain forest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkrebs Posted November 30, 2012 #10 Share Posted November 30, 2012 you can always go watch the pigs drink beer. Thats real close to the port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmieCruising7/15 Posted December 13, 2012 #11 Share Posted December 13, 2012 you can always go watch the pigs drink beer. Thats real close to the port Is this something that can be somewhat quickly? Can we have a taxi take us and wait? My kids would LOVE this but I don't want to plan my day around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovestx Posted December 13, 2012 #12 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Is this something that can be somewhat quickly? Can we have a taxi take us and wait? My kids would LOVE this but I don't want to plan my day around it. You will need to get a taxi. Probably a 10 minute drive from the port. And I'm sure you could arrange to have the cab wait for you. Not sure if it's been stated here already but they do charge you to enter the pig pen and for each non-alcoholic beer you feed the pigs. And definitely try a johnnycake (if they have them left that day) and a Mamawanna shot while you are there :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pisces223 Posted January 19, 2013 #13 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Call ahead! We went recently and the pigs were on vacation :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pisces223 Posted January 18, 2015 #14 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Well, isn't this funny! I'm sitting here reading this post and realized it was MY post written on this very day - 2 years ago exactly! I am reading these posts because we are taking the same cruise again! This time, we are bringing another couple with us because we loved it so much. We are staying in a cabin 3 doors down from the one we had before. Pretty funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erby2283 Posted April 14, 2015 #15 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Well, isn't this funny! I'm sitting here reading this post and realized it was MY post written on this very day - 2 years ago exactly! I am reading these posts because we are taking the same cruise again! This time, we are bringing another couple with us because we loved it so much. We are staying in a cabin 3 doors down from the one we had before. Pretty funny! So what did you do last time? Yeah Lady Huskies.....(I'm from Brookfield!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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