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From finding the perfect sailing charter to St. John's best deals on jewelry, the Mail Center is your online destination for finding tried and true resources on St. John.
St. John, once a playground for the Rockefellers, boasts of elegant luxury hotels as well as small cottages and boutique inns all surrounded by beautiful waters and pristine national park land. Discover your perfect vacation with help from the Mail Center.
Here are some villas, shops and activities we recommend on St. John:
Located in Coral Bay, La Bella Villa is a unique hand-crafted home made of island stone and masonry. It has a gorgeous view of Coral Bay and of beautiful Bordeaux Mountain. The house focuses on the Coral Bay view: its 12 by 40 foot long covered porch invites comfortable outside living. The house itself has all the character and warmth of a traditional Caribbean home, yet it is modern, well equipped, clean, and comfortable. Romantics will adore this picturesque and idyllic home.
Calypso del Sol has glorious water views from the pool deck and from both large, covered porches, with inviting views of Chocolate Hole and Pillsbury Sound. You can relax around the unusually large pool or walk down to Chocolate Beach or over the hill to Hart Bay.
Located on Chocolate Hole Bay about 7 minutes from the picturesque town of Cruz Bay, a stay at this new, 3 bedroom, 3 bath, fully air-conditioned villa will be a vacation to remember!
Relaxation, comfort, cool breezes and extraordinary views await you at this tropical retreat on the island of St. John, USVI. Stonegarden Cottage nestles within a shady, tropical forest, high up the steep slopes of St. John's Bordeaux Mountain. At the foot of the mountain lies picturesque Coral Bay harbor; beyond unfolds a panorama of peninsulas, islands, beaches and glowing turquoise channels that run east as far as Virgin Gorda and the Anegada Passage. This is the spectacular view that Islands Magazine chose as the top spot in the world to watch the sunrise of the new millennium. Cooling trade winds flow off the Caribbean year-round.
Catered To...Vacation Homes, an on island management firm, offers privately owned vacation rental villas located in secluded residential settings within easy reach of Cruz Bay and the National Park beaches on St. John, US Virgin Islands.
Their private vacation rental villas accommodate two to twelve people and are beautifully furnished and landscaped. These villas have breathtaking sea views, all have pools and/or spas; each has a fully equipped kitchen, all linens, TV, DVD, stereo, gas grill, beach chairs, beach towels and coolers. Midweek linen change is provided with most weekly reservations. We offer an in-house concierge who can arrange water sports and other island activities. Additional maid service, provisioning and chef services are also available at an additional fee.
Located in Estate Carolina, St. John, Sail View overlooks Coral Bay Harbor and is only minutes to the scenic tranquil East End. Set into the hillside, ¼ mile from the main road and nestled 300 feet above sea level, Sail View offers you a private terrace to relax and enjoy the breathtaking views.
Sail View is only 5 minutes to Coral Bay and 25 minutes to Cruz Bay. Each suite has its own private entrance for you to come and go as you please, as well as its own private bath and terrace. The suites are air-conditioned, equipped with a small refrigerator, coffee maker and a welcome basket of goodies, a shared deck with a gas grill and outdoor dining area, fully equipped with utensils and dishes for your use. In addition, each suite has cable TV and a DVD player for your viewing pleasure.
Pink Papaya
Pink Papaya specializes in the most unique and unusual Caribbean style gifts and art available anywhere. They offer one of the largest selections of ceramics and Tableware with a Caribbean Flavor and continually adds new designs and collections so visit their site often. Located in Cruz Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands.
John & Linda Dickson and Carol Hart, Linda showcase creative and unusual jewelry pieces. Featuring designs by Steven Douglas, Kabana, Spectore, Mysterium, Evan Loyd and others. Their artistic designs, craftsmanship and superb attention to detail insure that their designs will become enduring treasures. Featuring gold dolphin rings and pendants, cigar band rings, as well as mermaid, sterling silver sealife, family crest, atocha and shark jewelry.
Freebird Creations
Located beachside in Cruz Bay, Freebird has been offering it's array of Eclectic Jewelry and Duty Free watches to St. John visitors for over 18 years.Our creative and unusual pieces offer "Something for Everyone" You will enjoy our items that are unique to the Caribbean such as: "Larimar, Gemstone of the Caribbean", our island sandal jewelry, aka: "The St. John Running Shoe", our exclusive collection of St. John's mysterious "Petroglyph" jewelry, the "Original Caribbean Hook" and other island bracelets and our Ancient and Shipwreck coin jewelry collection, one of the finest in the Caribbean. Many of the items are one of a kind, crafted by designers and artists from St. John and other islands of the Caribbean. We appreciate your business.
Mona●Vie™MonaVie is a delicious and energizing blend of 19 body-beneficial fruits — including the Brazilian açai berry, one of nature's top superfoods.
Developed with the philosophy Balance-Variety-Moderation, this nourishing beverage delivers the essential phytonutrients and antioxidants your body needs to stay healthy.
MonaVie Active combines the delicious blend of MonaVie with plant-derived glucosamine for healthy joint support and powerful antioxidant protection.
Sail Breath
Breath is a one-of-a-kind, hand-built, gaff rigged, small tall ship. When they talk about a boat with character, this is what they mean. She stands out from the crowd. Breath is not just another tourist boat. She’s a real ship with a colorful history. Breath is the biggest boat ever to be built on St. John, USVI and over the last 20 years has become a part of St. John’s sailing lore. Breath is a native of St. John, US Virgin Islands. She has crossed oceans, explored seas, ascended rivers in Africa, run drugs (antibiotics) to a children’s hospital in Haiti during the 1994 embargo, imported wine from St. Barths as well as calabashes and djembe drums from West Africa and tile from Venezuela.
Come sail with us on this unique vessel!
St. John Weddings
Weddings in the US Virgin Islands are a popular, stress free, inexpensive, fun way to get married. Tropical destination weddings allow you to honeymoon where you get married. If you want to elope there is no more romantic or beautiful way to get married than an island wedding on the beach. St John weddings provide couples with many choices of lovely locations and marriage ceremony possibilities. Get married on a pristine National Park beach, aboard a romantic sailboat, in a historic sugar mill ruin, tropical island villa, or quaint island chapel. It can be just the two of you or bring your family and friends.
As a twenty five year St. John resident, Anne Marie, has married hundreds of couples from all over the world. She is your best resource for a VI wedding.
Island Style WeddingsConsidering an island wedding?
St. John is the most magical island in the Caribbean and the perfect location to host your wedding. Whether your dream is just the two of you barefoot on the beach or inviting your friends and family to witness your wedding day, St. John has everything you need to make your dream reality.
Island Style Weddings offers ceremony packages perfect for a small group or a couple wishing to elope. In addition, complete wedding coordination of multiple day events for larger destination wedding groups is available.
Angela Alfieri, Director and Founder of Inhale Exhale Wellness is commited to educating and presenting people with the proper tools to have a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Angela has a B.S. in Psychology, is NYS Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, Core Vinyasa Yoga Teacher and Holistic Health Counselor.
Her philosophy about life and career playing a synergistic role has been a model for her clients as they see her fulfill all levels of our make-up as human beings on that physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level.
Today's Flowers is a full service flower shop located in the heart of Cruz Bay. They are there to help make your special occasions easy and stress free, providing a wide variety of the freshest, highest quality flowers available.
Other products available are balloons, fruit baskets, candles, giftware, and stuffed animals. Delivery We deliver to most parts of the island. Daily deliveries to Caneel Bay and the Westin Resort.
Wire Service Teleflora Member - Delivering Worldwide. Place your order by phone and have it delivered the same day.
Greer Rivera lifestyle photography strives to make each session and image unique. She shoots on location only and use all natural light, she can come to your home or location of your choice, if you are new to the island she has plenty of gorgeous spots!
Greer's style is a mix of fashion, beauty and art with a little photojournalism thrown in for the truly spontaneous times!
Storage On SiteThe only on-site storage provider in the US Virgin Islands!
SOS leased containers are delivered to you. You don't have to travel back and forth to a remote self-storage site.
Together working as a team our goal is to revolutionize and develop the Caribbean on-site storage market. We believe our business can grow directly because of the quality and dedication of our associates. We think we truly are different. Our goal is to be considered the best place to work and grow in a career in the Caribbean. Equally important we understand and appreciate that our firm is part of the local community. "Giving back" and helping the community is important to SOS associates. Simply put it is the right thing to do.
For many people beaches, palm trees and 365 days of sunny skies, is dreamy. The Virgin Islands offers all of this and more. However, life in general no matter where you live requires work, housing, utilities, food, babysitters and daily chores. Insuring a successful relocation to the Virgin Islands, whether its seasonal or permanent, requires researching all aspects of living in the USVI and planning accordingly.
This site will help you; it provides great information and is dedicated to Moving to and Living in the USVI.
