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I am planning my trip to St J in mid october. I've been trying to decide how I want to get there. There really are sevaral options and I've decicded to make an adventure of it. I'm comming from San Diego. I've been looking into a few different routes, across the country, to a plane or maybe boat, maybe through mexico to hondurous or somthing. I've mapped out several differnt routes(it's like planes, trains, and aoutomibles). I've found that once I get to the point where I have to fly into the VI, all of the commercial flights are expensive. It costs almost the same from SD to STT as it does from miami. Anyways, I'm trying to find the name and hopefully website of perhaps a smaller based airline company, that does "island hopping". I'm not afraid of flying in a little plane, and actually would prefer ariving to the island in such a fasion. I would especially love a sea plane. If they are decently priced I think I'll plan the trip backwards. I'll just figure out the cheapest and most adventurous way to get from STT to SD, then back track. Also any kind of boat service or anything that anyone might know of would be great. Thank you.
Posted : August 13, 2004 9:56 pm
well im moving to st thomas in 1 month from today and searched far and wide for the cheapest deals on flights, the best i found was taking a plane from orlando to puerto rico, then to you island of choice, check it out, i cant promise anything but its worth a shot!
Posted : August 14, 2004 3:01 am
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Thanx for your info amy. Your right, that is cheaper. I'm still hoping someone knows something about the smaller planes, or boats,or hot air balloons,or submarines, or anything else. Cheap is good, but I'm also looking for a fun experience. Any more info would be great.
Posted : August 16, 2004 10:26 pm
You should check out Seaborne Airlines' website:
www.seaborneairlines.com
They do island hopping in the USVI. I don't know how reasonably priced they are but I know they do it.
Good luck!
Posted : August 16, 2004 10:38 pm
Hi Amy & Dob,
Don't know if you found this already but this may help. There is a seaplane company that island hops all the way to San Juan, which I understand is cheaper than the majors.
Hope it helps. Best of luck.
John
Posted : August 16, 2004 10:38 pm
well dob, if you end up finding anything fun and cheap, my friend and i would love to know about it. when we move down there we plan to do some major island hoping, we would love to make it as fun and cheap as possible, any interesting means of transportaiotn would be awsome!
Posted : August 18, 2004 3:06 am
You might try not making any formal travel plans at all. Just get in your car and drive to a local airport or dock somewhere and start asking people who have planes and boats if they'll take you somewhere for some money. One thing should lead to another.
I know on St. Croix, especially during tourist season, you can just walk along the boardwalk in Christiansted and find a boat owner who's going over to Buck Island for a day. Give the person some money, and you can go along.
Posted : August 18, 2004 9:11 am
Hello,
Sounds like you want to take an extended vacation or backpacking trip. Driving accross the country, or going greyhound or by train to Miami then flying to Guatemala or Belize and then going down through Central America and then fly to the ABC islands and then head to the marinas once there and try and hook up with someone with a boat that is spending hurricane season down that way but heading back up the island chain to the USVI for season and tagging along with them sounds exciting...(I wouldn't do it - LOL... but would certainly enjoy reading about someone else figuring it out and doing it and living vicariously through their adventure) All the best, let us know how you decide to get here.
There are smaller airlines that fly in the Caribbean like Liat, Cape Air, Seaplane but they don't connect you with the mainland so you have to take a larger commericial airline to get into the area they service. There are charter flights with smaller companies but they are costy. No ferry service between the mainland and the USVI.
Island hopping once in the USVI is easy by ferry, seaplane or small airlines.
Good Luck.
--Islander
Posted : August 25, 2004 6:32 pm
