Question Dive resorts in St Croix, St Martin or St Thomas?

[Doug Cutler]

Does anyone know any good dive resorts in St Croix, St Martin or St Thomas?
I am looking to head that way in February 2025.
Any suggestions for dive resorts will be greatly appreciated.

 

[seaj]

Does anyone know any good dive resorts in St Croix, St Martin or St Thomas?
I am looking to head that way in February 2025.
Any suggestions for dive resorts will be greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry to see you didn't get any reply on this question. However, I'm headed to St Thomas in May and wonder if you have any advice from your experience. Thanks!

 

[Damselfish]

Possibly no replies as they aren’t big dive destinations and don’t really have dive resorts, depending on your definition of dive resort. Mine is a hotel mostly full of divers or at least a fair number, with dive packages, dive shop with boats leaving right from there right there or supporting lots of shore diving, maybe at least breakfast included that’s early enough to make the boat schedule. It’s more like pick accommodations that you like that are convenient enough to a good dive shop to walk/drive/get picked up.

We stayed at Hotel Caravelle on St Croix which has a (separate) dive shop right there, not really a dive resort but probably as close as you’ll get there. St Croix is generally considered the best diving of the US Virgins. We haven’t dove the other 2.

St Martin we rented an apartment on the French side intending to dive with a shop a short walk away, but they drove us to their shop on the Dutch side every day because of boat problems. Most people don’t seem to have a high opinion of diving in St Martin and we only dove there because we ended a liveaboard trip there. We got lucky and dove some nice spots because of unusually good conditions, but apparently that’s not the norm.

 

[Corrinado]

Beachfront Resort in St. Thomas | Secret Harbour Beach Resort St. Thomas

Enjoy the turquoise water and pristine beaches of St. Thomas from your private condominium at Secret Harbour Beach Resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands, rated one of the best resorts in St. Thomas.

www.secretharbourvi.com

This is where we went and had an awesome time, great place.

Here's my trip report:

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Trip Report Post in thread 'St Thomas, Secret Harbor Beach Resort'

Jun 28, 2022

Thank you for posting a trip report for a St. Thomas stay. It's one of those destinations people often speak of diving when on a cruise ship stop (which is how I got 4 dives in there), but rarely do I see a dedicated dive trip report, even though it's got a reputation for quality beaches, is a popular Caribbean shopping port, and has many topside excursions on offer so there's a lot to do besides diving.

All that, but when people are considering where to spend a week diving in the Caribbean, seems like it's all about Cozumel, Bonaire, Roatan, Belize, the Caymans, Curacao...

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[seaj]

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for sharing that!!

 

[Christopher Kosseff]

My wife and I went to Secret Harbor last winter. Easy trip from NJ. The dive operation wasn't bad and a couple of the sites were really quite nice - some healthy coral and lots of the usual reef friends. For convenience and decent diving, why not?