Pia is right - the key is a clean mask. Before your trip, clean the inside glass and silicone thoroughly with Soft Scrub (ideal) or white tooth paste. Make sure the glass is squeaky clean. For diving or snorkeling, I use 50/50 JJ baby shampoo and water in a travel spray bottle. One small squirt in e...

Check out my business partner's boat which just arrived in Antigua from the Med: http://www.sunreef-charter.com/catamara ... ,1055.html

Beach Garden Villa - Chocolate Hole

Sorry to take so long to get back - we've been out of town for a few days. cliffnchristi - yes my daughter and her husband both graduated from VT a few years ago. I don't think we will go in Sept. again - we were a little nervous watching 3 different tropical storms/huricanes, but we only had two &q...

We stayed at Beach Garden villa in early Sept. The pool is mostly sunny until about 4:00. It was a little cooler than the other villa we have stayed at (Splendore). The villa is wonderfully apointed with beautiful furniture, fixtures and lots of natural materials. There were still some things unfini...

Guilty as charged! My wife and I have been twice - 2 years ago today we celebrated our 25th wedding aniversary on STJ on our first trip. We are contemplating a third trip this September.

My wife and I have stayed there twice and loved it. Cindy's directions are correct. I would add that if you look at the video near the end where Choco Cruz is pointed out, the very next left is the shared driveway for three villas - on that shared driveway, the back driveway for Choco Cruz is the fi...

My wife and I stayed at Splendore last June for our 25th wedding anniversary. We liked it so much we are going back there this June. It sits very high on Maria Bluff - I think there are only one or two villas higher up and has excellent views to the southwest. The pictures on the VacationVistas webs...

Here is my contribution:

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We rented a villa fairly high up on Maria Bluff this past June that faced southwest. Although it had AC in the bedrooms, we never used it - we kept all the sliding doors opened (with the screens closed of course :wink: ) and enjoyed the wonderful sounds of the tree frogs and insects at night. It was...

peterb/California Girl - Thanks for the compliments! It's not hard when you are in such a beautiful place.

I'll add my pictures to the mix: http://mg.yrci.com/stjohn/ This was our first trip to St. John (June 24 - July 1) - we are hooked and have already made reservations for next June!

My wife and I have experience with the Body Glove mask mentioned above (mine) and the semi-prescription mask from snorkelmart (wife's). Both were around the same price. I would recommend snorkelmart as you can get different lenses for each eye - they don't handle stigmatisms but their online directi...

Hi Anthony - I had trouble logging on with my initial userid - probably because I initially created it with a wrong email address - I then created it using the same userid and the correct email address but it would never let me log in - even when I requested a password change. I since created a new ...