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What are the best ways to get from the airport on St. Thomas to the dock for the ferry to St. John?
Taxi 🙂
You beat me to it Pia!
Is it best to take the taxi to the east end and take the ferry there, or to Christiansted, where I understand there is a boat that also goes to St. john?
I think you have your geography a little mixed up...Charlotte Amalie is the main city on St. Thomas, not Christainsted. No worries...though. Here is a link to all the ferries in the USVI:
http://www.usvi.net/usvi/ferry.htm
You have a couple of choices...take a taxi to Charlotte Amalie and catch the ferry there or take a taxi to Red Hook (east end of St Thomas) and catch one of the ferries at that location.
Here is what we always do - get our luggage, head out to the taxi stand and say we're headed to St. John. The drivers usually pick whichever port we can get to to get the next ferry to St. John and leads us to the correct taxi van. Either Red Hook (Longer taxi, shorter ferry) or Charlotte Amalie (Shorter taxi, longer ferry). Always works for us!
My word of advice is don't buy a round trip ticket for the ferry. We took a taxi to Red Hook and we stood in line for a bit so my hubby thought in order to save time on the way back he would buy round trip ferry tickets, as well as luggage tickets. Well, when departing St. John Cruz Bay on our trip home, we were told the ferry tickets we had were for another vessel not for the one we were taking. Apparently there are different companies. So don't buy round trip ferry tickets. Also, we sort of wished anyways that we were taking the longer ferry ride back rather than the longer taxi ride (we'd rather enjoy the caribbean sea than the backrounds of St. Thomas)
