By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Before my first trip to the Virgin Islands, I envisioned it being just like that Alan Alda movie, The Four Seasons, where some seasoned skipper would have us sailing through those turquoise-blue waters and pulling up to drop anchor by blinding white beaches while a bouncy blonde identical to Bess Armstrong would have me in full … [Read more...]
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Moorings Interline Regatta 2025 Dates & Events Schedule For The ‘Party Cats’
The Moorings Interline Regatta is two things. One is a sailboat race among competitive skippers and crew and the other is an island-hopping party with people romping through the bars of the British Virgin Islands. The first part is primarily for employees of airlines from around the world and the second is for anyone wh forks over a couple thousand dollars to be part of a … [Read more...]
U.S. Virgin Islands Now The Official Caribbean Destination For The New York Jets
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); With Aaron Rodgers now at quarterback and the typical preseason excitement among of NFL teams, the New York Jets and their fans hope to be jetting off to Las Vegas for Super Bowl XVIII in February. But even if they don't make it to that destination, they will also always be welcome anytime in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This … [Read more...]
Village Cay Marina In Tortola Is Where Jimmy Buffett Says He Wrote Cheeseburger In Paradise
PubClub.com Has Been To This Restaurant In The British Virgin Islands By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Parrothead Blogger Mystery solved. You can toss out all the legends, the rumors the "no THIS is the place" talk. According to the man himself, this is where Jimmy Buffett got the inspiration for his"Cheeseburger in Paradise" song. This is what he said about … [Read more...]
Hold Off On That Sailboat Trip To The British Virgin Islands For Now
BVIs Travel Rules & Regulations By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Blue skies and water to match it, calm seas and islands to explore. The British Virgin Islands are a sailor's paradise but with it's current COVID-19 travel restrictions in place, it's best keep your plans in port for now. To vacation in the BVIs requires a series of steps … [Read more...]
British Virgin Islands Launches Travel App Called BVI Now
An Easy Way To Get Information About These Caribbean Islands By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger In the wake of hurricanes Irma and and Maria, the British Virgin Islands has taken a beating and getting clear information about what businesses are open and which ones are not, the current conditions and news about the islands has been difficult or inconsistent … [Read more...]
Virgin Islands Bar Willy T’s Returning To Original Norman Island Location
The William Thornton, One Of The BVI's Legendary Bars, Returns Home After Hurricane Irma By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger After being destroyed, rebuilt and then put out to sea, to to speak, at another location the Willy T's bar is returning home to its original location off Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands. "Effective July 1, 2019, … [Read more...]
Foxy’s Taboo Bar Hosts New Year’s Day 2019 Party Reopening After Hurricane Irma
It's A 'Float-illa' Party In The British Virgin Islands By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Foxy's Taboo, which was completely destroyed during Hurricane Irma, is reopening and doing it in grand style – it is having a big bash on New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2019. It is a “Float-illa” party starting at Noon. And it's a big party - there are already … [Read more...]
Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Foxy’s Bar: A Legendary Caribbean Party
The legendary New Year's Eve party at Foxy's Tamarind Bar in the Virgin Islands is one of the best places to celebrate NYE in the Caribbean. Called Old New Year's Night, it features a bands and DJs at its back and beachfront bars. There are six bars at Foxy's along with a "brigade of bartenders," according to Foxy's. One of the customs, beyond the night's theme … [Read more...]
Foxy’s Bar British Virgin Islands Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Big Party
More Than 1,000 People Turn Out For Celebration By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger If ever a place needed to cut loose and celebrate something, it was this place. On March 24, 2018 Foxy’s Bar in the British Virgin Islands did just that - it celebrated its 50th anniversary. "We knew we needed to host a party," said Susan Zaluski of Foxy's Bar … [Read more...]
What It’s Really Like To Be On A Sailboat In The Virgin Islands
Sailing The BVIs: A First-Hand Experience By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger We approach the bay, so slowly and quietly it almost seems as if as we are trying to sneak into it and launch a pirate attack, and start searching for a ball to grab. Not a beach ball or a volleyball, but a mooring ball. We are in the British Virgin Islands and we are on a … [Read more...]
Top Rum Drinks Of The Virgin Islands: Painkiller & Bushwacker Recipes
The BVIs & USVI's Official Cocktails As one would have beer in Germany, tequila in Mexico and wine in France and Italy, so is it with rum and rum drinks in the Caribbean. No matter where you go in the Caribbean, you will encounter rum. You will be around it almost as much the water that surrounds the islands. And frankly, that's not a bad thing at all. If nothing else, … [Read more...]
St. Thomas Nightlife Best Bars Redhook & Island Music Reviews
Top Nightlife Spots For Locals & Tourists The beaches and water activities of St. Thomas give way to its small bars by night. There are fine places and fun places, spots with live music and bars for tourists and joints for locals (of course, tourists are always welcome) But, of course, any discussion of bars and nightlife in the Caribbean has to start with the rum. … [Read more...]
Virgin Islands Sailboat Charters Tips, The Islands, Sights & Beach Bars
"Sailing Life is What I Choose, Imported Rum is My Kind of Booze... Sailing Life is Made For Me, I Raise My Spinnaker and I'm Free..." - Singer/Songwriter Eric Stone The water is blue – many shades of blue, in fact – the wind is blowing but hardly howling, captain and crew are going "fast enough to get there but slow enough to see" as the Jimmy Buffett song possibly … [Read more...]
The Best Beach Bars In The British Virgin Islands
"We raise our sails in Tortola, Drop a hook in Jost van Dyke. Kill our Pain at Soggy Dollar, Foxy's and the Paradise..." - Singer Eric Stone British Virgin Islands Bars, nightlife By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger There is a place that makes the mind wander, the soul shift and the spirits soar. Where rum flows into drinks like the Painkiller … [Read more...]