The St. Croix directory
Every restaurant, beach, dive shop and boat on the island — 180 places, each verified this year, in one searchable place.
Seventeen miles, end to end.
The Cerulean sits on the quiet East End — Christiansted fifteen minutes west, Buck Island just offshore. Tap a marker to jump into that corner of the directory.
Car rentals
A rental car is the easy way to enjoy St. Croix. The villa sits on the quiet East End, Christiansted is fifteen…
Photo: Summitandbeach (CC BY-SA 4.0)Scuba diving
St. Croix is the U.S. Virgin Islands' serious dive island. A protected barrier wall runs along the whole north shore…
Snorkeling
Snorkeling at The Cerulean starts at the bottom of the steps — the villa's own beach sits on reef-protected water,…
Photo: Alchematics (CC BY-SA 4.0)Jet ski, kayak & paddleboard
St. Croix's motorized fun lives on the west end — jet skis off Rainbow Beach with the sunset coast for a racetrack.…
Boat charters & sails
The classic St. Croix boat day is Buck Island: a national-monument reef 1.5 miles offshore with one of the…
Photo: Sean Linehan, NOAA NGS Remote Sensing (CC BY 2.0)Fishing charters
St. Croix's fishing grounds start almost embarrassingly close: Lang Bank, the drop-off running a few miles off the…
Photo: Dqfn13 (CC BY-SA 4.0)Catering & private chefs
The Cerulean was built for eating in — a chef's kitchen guests rave about, an outdoor kitchen on the pool deck, and a…
Photo: Dqfn13 (CC BY-SA 4.0)Restaurants
St. Croix eats better than any island its size has a right to — a legacy of Danish trade, Puerto Rican and…
Photo: Lars Schmidt (CC BY-SA 3.0)Bars & nightlife
St. Croix nightlife is sunset-shaped: beach bars that peak as the sun drops, a boardwalk that hums after dinner, and…
Trails & hikes
St. Croix hikes come in two flavors: the East End's sun-drenched, California-like coastal hills — which start…
Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD (CC BY-SA 3.0)Culture & history
St. Croix has flown seven flags, and the island wears all that history in plain sight: two Danish forts bracketing…
Photo: CaptJayRuffins (CC BY-SA 4.0)Rum & spirits
Rum is St. Croix's oldest industry and the island still makes it at scale — Cruzan's family-lineage distillery on the…
Photo: GRI SHA (Flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)Beaches
Start with the obvious: The Cerulean has its own private beach with direct water access, so every other beach on this…
Photo: evan p. cordes (Flickr) (CC BY 2.0)Golf
Three courses, three personalities: a Robert Trent Jones Sr. championship layout in a rainforest valley, a resort 18…
Photo: Jpheym Jason P. Heym / Seascape Pool Center Inc. (CC BY-SA 3.0)Spas & wellness
The laziest luxury on St. Croix is not leaving the villa at all: in-villa massage, yoga and beauty services are all…
Photo: Connie Ma (CC BY-SA 2.0)Groceries & provisioning
Feeding twelve people for a week takes logistics, and St. Croix's grocery bench is better than most islands': two…
Every entry checked against a live source.
Island listings change from season to season, so we checked every entry against a live source this year, kept only the places we could confirm, and added the practical details you actually need (like which beach is closed all summer for nesting turtles).
Sixteen lists, one island. Anything here can be arranged through the villa’s concierge.
Base camp for all of it.
Five bedrooms on the sunrise side — the whole directory within a day trip.