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Book Direct and Save: You can save hundreds of dollars by booking your vacation rental directly with owners rather than the AIR BNB, VRBO, HomeAway and TripAdvisor platforms. Most vacation Rental owners have their own website. You can speak directly to homeowners to find the perfect fit. It’s your vacation… and a good owner or manager will want you to make the right choice even if it is not one of their homes. We also do not want guests to pay useless service fees to the booking platforms that are already collecting from the home owners. Below are two area specific sites, one for St John and one for all of the US Virgin Islands. Plus two up and coming sites that are worldwide so where ever you plan your next vacation you can play more and pay less:

Three sea turtles inhabit our waters:  the Green Turtle the Leatherback and the Hawskbill

Reef Safe Sunscreen: St John Virgin Islands:  You love snorkeling our reefs, right? We want to help you help protect them and your body in the process. Using reef safe sunscreen is an important first step to take. Many people are aware of the damage our reefs received during hurricane Irma and Maria. They need our help to fully recover. To be honest these wonderful public lands (much of the island is owned by the National Park) would not be available if they were not sustained by the love of our visitors. Fortunately, many of our visitors actively want to participate in their preservation. Most repeat visitors to the island know the basics: Don’t step on or touch the coral, DO NOT ride sea turtles. (Did I really have to say that? But it has been happening…) Watch and enjoy the marine life but do not disturb. But it is really only recently that people have begun to realize the extent of the harm that has been caused by the sunscreens.