Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ESSENTIALS
Getting There
BY PLANE
All flights to St. Croix land at the
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport,
Estate Mannings Bay
(
&
340/778-1012;
www.viport.com/airports.html; airport code STT), on the south-
ern coast of the island. There are no ATMs at the airport, so come prepared with
cash. Take a taxi to your hotel or rent a car. The major car-rental firms maintain kiosks
here, but make reservations before you arrive.
American Airlines
(
&
800/433-7300;
www.aa.com) offers the most frequent
and most reliable service to St. Croix. Passengers flying to the island connect through
San Juan from either New York City's JFK airport or Newark, New Jersey. From San
Juan,
American Eagle
(
&
800/433-7300;
www.aa.com) offers several daily non-
stop flights to St. Croix. There's also one flight daily from Miami, with one stop (but
no change of plane) in St. Thomas. The flight originates in Dallas-Fort Worth,
American's biggest hub.
Travel time to St. Croix from New York is 4 hours, from Chicago 5
1
⁄
2
hours, from
Miami 3
1
⁄
2
hours, and from Puerto Rico 20 minutes. There are no direct flights to St.
Croix from Canada or the United Kingdom; connections are made via Miami.
There are also easy air links between St. Thomas and St. Croix.
American Eagle
(see American Airlines, above, for contact info) has three daily flights; in addition,
Seaborne Airlines
(
&
888/359-8687
or 340/773-6442; www.seaborneairlines.
com) offers 17 flights daily. Flight time is only 25 minutes.
Visitor Information
You can begin your explorations at the
St. Croix Visitor Bureau,
53A Company St.,
in Christiansted (
&
340/773-0495
), a yellow building across from the open-air
market. It's open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm.
The U.S. Virgin Islands Division of Tourism also has an office at the Customs
House Building, Strand Street (
&
340/772-0357;
www.stcroixtourism.com), in
Frederiksted.
Tourist offices provide free maps to the island.
St. Croix This Week,
distributed free
to cruise-ship and air passengers, has detailed maps of Christiansted, Frederiksted,
and the entire island, pinpointing individual attractions, hotels, shops, and restau-
rants. If you plan to do extensive touring of the island, purchase
The Official Road
Map of the U.S. Virgin Islands,
available at island bookstores.
Island Layout
St. Croix has only two sizable towns: Christiansted on the northcentral shore and
Frederiksted in the southwest. The Henry E. Rohlsen Airport is on the south coast,
directly west of the Hess Oil Refinery, the major industry on the island. No roads
circle St. Croix's coast.
To continue east from Christiansted, take Route 82 (also called the East End Rd.).
Route 75 will take you west from Christiansted through the central heartland, then
south to the Hess Oil Refinery. Melvin H. Evans Highway, Route 66, runs along the
southern part of the island. You can connect with this route in Christiansted and head
west all the way to Frederiksted.
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