The Best of St. Croix: A Local's Guide
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2023
- Have you ever wanted to travel to the twin city island of St. Croix? Well now is your chance! Join Bill Panoff CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Porthole Cruise and Travel as he takes you around the island filled with Caribbean culture and history.
The island is home to some amazing restaurants and bars, so you will have plenty of options when it comes to dining and nightlife. Spend your day relaxing by the beautiful beaches and crystal-clear waters to get the full experience.
St. Croix has a unique blend of Caribbean, African, and European cultures, which is reflected in its music, cuisine, and art. Come discover the hidden gems of this picturesque island today.
After watching this video, you'll have a better idea of what to expect on your trip to this beautiful island. You'll also have a better understanding of the history and culture of St. Croix, which will make your trip that much more enjoyable!
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My hometown! Thank you for sharing a piece of this hidden gem to the world!
So glad to see St Croix featured and you hit a lot of the top local hot spots. My family lived there about 10 years and I was fortunate to be able to visit quite often. It takes a minute to adjust to driving on the left but most locals are pretty forgiving of tourists. Thanks for sharing, it brings back wonderful memories.
St Croix is a beautiful island . Thank you watching
Is just an amazing place I was just there with my family 😎 cool piece of mind
@imtex5436 where did stay ?
Just at St Johns..this is on my list
Thanks for sharing. Looking to go soon. Appreciate the tips.
Buckaneer 😊, 😎 Great video Mr. Bill, classic stuff. So beautiful
Great hospitality
You have made the most amazing and informative video regarding St. Croix !!
Thank you so much and thank you for subscribing to my channel
thanks for the positive local view of my island/ towns ❤
Cool
the wife and i are looking at this island for honeymoon...thx so much for sharing :)
Please be careful!
St. Croix = HIGH CRIME. And the crime is not relegated entirely to public housing projects and gang activity. Tourists are victimized all the time. And the local media neglects to report on a lot of the crime, including violent crimes. The police are infamously incompetent and corrupt. Avoid quiet beaches, stay out of Fredricksted after dark and confine your night visits to Christiansted to the immediate area around the wharf. If you want to visit the USVI's St. John is much safer and more idyllic. So are the British Virgin Islands. And down island St. Kitts, St. Lucia and Dominica are safer and also beautiful, volcanic islands with friendlier residents. And there's numerous smaller islands with low populations that are also very safe and beautiful like Carriacou and Anguilla. Do your homework. The islands are all different. And you will find much safer and more beautiful than St. Croix.
St Croix Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 my Island
Hi Bill! I will be there next week! Can't wait to explore!
Enjoy !!
The food looks amazing. I enjoy the video and learning about the culture.
Eric Ty for ur kind words
You are very welcome my friend. I just want to forget about all the negative things going in our country and just enjoy the travel videos
I just returned from a week of scuba diving off of St. Croix and traveled all over the island. A well down video with one exception. You failed to mention the abandoned sugar cane mills that appeared in several scenes. A stark reminder of slavery and St. Croix's colonial past.
Thank you for ur kind words . Well noted
Great video. I was also hoping to hear about how recent seaweed blooms have affected the island? Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Nice!!! Definitely glad you chose to showcase the chicken shack. Love that place
Where do you recommend first timers to stay?
Hello:
I want to immigrate from the USA to Saint Croix Island
1. do you have any videos about immigrating to Saint Croix Island?
2 also do you have any videos about bad things about living in Saint Croix Island?
3. I am not a wealthy person I am on an extremely tight budget, any videos about living in Saint Croix Island on poor budget ?
thanks
If you come here to live, have some connections that you can socialize and network with. Or, have LOTS of money.
I’m in the same situation trying to get into Christiansted
I recently moved back to the states from St. Croix. I lived there for 10 years stretched over 23 years. There’s a saying there, “if you want to leave the island with a million dollars…bring 3 million.” It’s expensive to live on an island. No trucks or trains deliver there. Compare housing prices to DC, San Francisco and NYC . Unemployment is high as well as crime. Schools suck unless Private and that’ll cost ya, lots! Electricity is iffy and after storms, can be non-existent for months. Just saying, but, it is beautiful and magical.
A single person living by themselves probably needs minimum $65k/year to live semi-comfortably on a budget. Everything is expensive. @rosemarydolliver pretty well covered it in a nutshell. I got here before the housing prices got crazy, I probably couldn't afford to do it now, & budgeted for solar, so I got off of WAPA within a few months. A lot of folks only last a few months or maybe a year or two & return to the mainland with their life savings blown. You have to be fairly self-reliant, low maintenance, easy going & adaptable...type A personalities will blow a gasket here.
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Also know that Fort Christiavarean original color is red just like Fort Frederick. The US government changed the color to yellow. Golfer Jack Nicklaus is said to be the one that designed the golf course at The Buccaneer. Also, a little FYA, us Crucians consider ALL beaches to be public. There is no such thing as a private beach. Just ask the US Navy what happened when they told people of St. Croix the beaches were off limits to them in the 1950s/1960s
Fort Christiansværn, not Fort Christianbjørn!
Christianbjørn is an older, and little known, Danish spelling!
@@CertifyC3 It already is Danish. “Christiansværn” translates to “Christian’s Defense”, referring to the Danish King Christian VI, a fitting name for a fort. “Bjørn” on the other hand means “bear”. They definitely never named a Caribbean fort ‘King Christian’s Bear’
@@ianbarnes1274 Yes, I understand, and totally agree! You're correct; hence the change! Get it? I did not make that up off the top of my head!
@@CertifyC3 Can you send me in the direction of where I can read more about this?
@@ianbarnes1274 Although I can't help much, I am replying out of respect for your interest in a credible reference. Consider that in the early 1700s, the name Christiansværn was, and is, specifically related to the fort in Christiansted, St. Croix and the name was concocted to honor the king. And, yes, Christianbjørn has "bear" as its concatenation and not "defense as in Christiansværn. There is no interest, or power, in making the direct association clear to modern users of the Internet. We are talking 300 years ago. A person would need access to physical archives to connect the family name bjørn to værn. The term "bear" has been associated with "defense" for many hundreds of years. There is a lot of HIDDEN knowledge that is, of course intentionally, not intended for the general public. It would require a scholar of Danish history to provide factual evidence. I am just an ordinary person, well-read, who happens to understand how supremacists create their own narratives and hide, obliterate, and obscure facts... That FACT is WELL documented! Further, most facts can not be read about; it requires a spiritual intelligence to connect the visible dots.
What makes you "local" and not a colonizer seeking to capitalize off of encouraging others to colonize my homeland?
So you want the United States to withdraw all welfare, housing subsidies, food stamp money and all other financial support? And you want tourists and all non local property owners to disappear too? Cool. The USVI's have never been anything but a burden to the US. But if it does withdraw, tourists stop coming and all the homeowners leave St. Croix will starve. Furthermore, it's not a nation, never was and never will be. It's too small. Even if it was combined with St. Thomas and St. John. They're just a bunch of small unconnected towns in the middle of the ocean. Residents would be living like Arawaks in loin cloths.