This hotel is perfect for people traveling in and out of St. Thomas and need to be close the airport! (It's literally an easy 10-min. walk.) I don't regret a second staying here for my first time in the caribbean islands, but also note that I would never stay here again.

A lot of reviews I read said to stay on St. John or St. Croix when visiting USVI. I would agree with them, and if I go back, I will do that. But as my first time staying in St. Thomas, this was an easy place to get to from the airport and get situated. We were able to get the lay of the land pretty quickly and easily. The beach is stunning and pretty private -- mostly hotel goers, though there were a few cruise ship folks when the cruise shipped docked. While, you can easily get the $1 dollar bus into town (you have to walk to the main road), you can't get really further than that with the dollar man. So you back to getting taxis everywhere. AND TAXIS ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE - minimum $10 a person anywhere on the island.

I spent over $200-300 on taxis. If I would have put that expense into my hotel, I could have stayed somewhere on St. John or St. Croix. But because we did that we saw most of St. Thomas (all parts of it), which was essentially the idea. But now that we've seen it, I plan to never stay here again. The food options are basically two restaurants - one at the hotel and one at the Best Western across the Bay (which there is a free shuttle). They were both pretty good, but you are going to pay a minimum of $30-40 just on food when you dine there. It's overpriced for the quality, but a lot of the food is overpriced on St. Thomas, so I don't know if you'll find much cheaper. If you are planning on staying longer than couple of days, the food options will get really stale, real quick. (We found the perfect pizza place on St. John and it was super cheap.)

The rooms were fine - tile floor, wicker furniture. Honestly we didn't spend that much time in them. The water pressure sucked in the shower.

The beach was BEAUTIFUL THOUGH!

I spent a week at Emerald Beach Resort, this was my second visit. The beach is beautiful the hotel is lovely, the rooms are so nice, clean and very comfortable and the food is great. The staff is very professional and friendly they welcomed me and taught me all about island living. Relaxed from a day on the beach sitting at the bar watching the sunset sharing a laugh with new friends over rum punch...It just doesnt get much better than that. I will definatly be back again and again thank you Emerald Beach.....

What a great hotel. Staff was friendly and the rooms were spacious and very clean. The beach was perfect never crowded and beautiful. Make sure you check out the beach front bar. Tell Jebadia the Boston Girls say hello :) Will defiantly be back soon.

during our first visit to this hotel , we enjoyed everything , we arrives at 9am in st thomas , and we can made an early ck in , that give us time during the first day go to see the facilities also the capital charlotte amalie , the complete service and all staff made us feel at home during the three days of stay in the hotel . we will return soon to bw emerald beach.

i. marr & j. santos
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