Saint ThomasThe Ritz-Carlton Club at Great Bay, Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina, the Red Hook ferry to Saint John, and the calm-water beaches of the eastern Smith Bay strip

Saint Thomas is a U.S. territory — no passport required for U.S. citizens, the U.S. dollar everywhere, U.S. cell-phone plans without roaming, and direct domestic flights from JFK, Newark, Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, and Boston into Cyril E. King (STT). Charlotte Amalie on the south coast is the duty-free downtown and cruise-ship hub. The eastern Smith Bay corridor from the Coral World Ocean Park headland through Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina to the Ritz-Carlton resort complex at Great Bay holds the rental-condominium inventory — these are the calm-water Caribbean-side beaches that look across Pillsbury Sound to Saint John, Tortola, and the British Virgin Islands. Red Hook a mile south is the ferry hub: the 20-minute Cruz Bay ferry runs hourly all day, and the dollar-ferry to Water Island runs from Crown Bay marina on the south coast.

Our Saint Thomas rentals concentrate at two east-end resort complexes — the Ritz-Carlton Club at Great Bay (a 2- and 3-bedroom private-residence-club tier at the southern end of the Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas resort, with twice-daily housekeeping, the Coconut Cove beach bar, the Lady Lynsey II catamaran for Saint John day-sails, and the half-mile of private white-sand half-moon beach), and Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina at Smith Bay one mile north (studio, 1- and 2-bedroom condos in the L, E, and F building blocks at the eastern point — beachfront, walk-out reef snorkeling, the on-site marina with day-charter fishing and ferry services, and the Sapphire Beach Bar at the south end of the sand). Both complexes are five minutes from Red Hook for the Cruz Bay ferry, ten minutes from Coral World Ocean Park, and twenty minutes from Magens Bay on the north shore.