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HipCrip

HipCrip
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Joined: January 20, 2005 5:26 pm
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Re: For all the Islanders

STX offers a wonderful sense of community and small town living. We don't need six degrees of separation -- here you are one person away from anyone ...

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Re: For those that have been to the Westin..

IslandGrl, You might also wannt to visit the GIMP ON THE GO web site and read the trip report on St. John. The review is located at: br /> ...

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Re: car rentals

Most if not all of the national car rental agencies on STT (Budget, Hertz, etc.) will not permit their vehicles to be taken off island. It is in the ...

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Re: Verizon Service

Starfish has it right on the money! My employee (who is in DC while I am on St. Croix) uses Verizon and we were both shocked to discover that he...

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Re: Trip Report- Fredriksted/Sand Castle

Valerie, What an excellent trip report! My husband and I stayed at Sand Castle for the few weeks between our move to St. Croix and the dat...

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Re: Trip Report ST. THOMAS @ Secret Harbour 9/1-9/10 PART ONE

Ginger, Great report -- you captured the enthusiasm we felt when we returned from SH last December perfectly! Only thing about your report t...

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Re: airfare questions

Dan, if you have more time than money, several people I know have used priceline.com and/or hotwire.com to get tickets to various destinations at...

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Re: Excursions

Jennifer, Islander hit the nail on the head with the suggestion of Coral World and Coki Beach. My spouse and I did that when we took our first t...

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Re: Secret Harbor Oceanfront ??

Gary, Me too (we stayed there in December of last year) -- and I now live in St. Croix! Funny thing is that when I was recently returning ...

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Re: Where to stay in St. Croix

Ric, Thank you so much for that generous offer! I'll shoot you an email once we figure out our pre-move visit schedule and we'll see if we can w...

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Re: Where to stay in St. Croix

We'll be staying at Cottages by the Sea (in the Caravelle cottage) when we make our pre-move visit to St. Croix in mid-April. Will post a review on ...

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Re: ferry

Definitely check with your rental car company and get it in writing! We were told no ferrie or leaving the island by all the national rental care com...

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Re: Cell Phone Coverage

Our Sprint phones worked everywhere on STT as long as we were outside -- had trouble getting a decent signal inside our hotel room (which was cinderbl...

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Re: Our trip to St. Thomas

Lori, Secret Harbour is AMAZING -- we stayed there December 4-13 last year and couldn't recommend it more. Ernest Halliday, the manager, is know...

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Re: BOB Underwater Bike

My pleasure, Keith. Be sure to get one of the underwater disposable cameras (buying them in the states before you go instead of buying in the USVI ...

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Re: BOB Underwater Bike

If you're on St. Thomas, contact the Aqua Action Dive Shop, which is located at the Secret Harbour Beach Resort (on the east end of the island near Re...

20 years ago
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Re: Frederiksted Restaurants

East Ender, That's probably a very good idea. The hand controls are very simple -- it's just two rods that are atached to the regular accelerato...

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Re: Frederiksted Restaurants

Eve , you rock! Thanks for the restaurant tips. I survived a trip to London, where there are no bathrooms at all on the first floor of restauran...

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Re: Frederiksted Restaurants

Let me third that trip report request, Allen. If you can remember, please indicate if the places you visited (especially restaurants) are step-free/w...

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Re: STX Hotel Question

I foundin an online search. Even though I haven';t visited them, they sound fantastic and have a friendly owner who is happy to work with you (based ...

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