Country guide
Cruise ports in US Virgin Islands
3 ports we cover in US Virgin Islands, across the Eastern Caribbean. Each guide covers how ships berth, how far the town is and what a group can do with the day.
Practical basics
Currency
US dollar
Language
English
Time zone
Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4), no daylight saving
Getting ashore
2 ports with a berth, 2 where ships tender
Drawn from the individual port guides below. Currency, language and berthing can differ between ports in the same country, so the detail that matters is on each port's own page.
How US Virgin Islands's ports compare
All three US Virgin Islands are United States territory, which removes more friction for an American group than any other Caribbean country: no passport is needed on a closed-loop sailing, the dollar is the currency, and most US mobile plans work without roaming charges.
St. Thomas takes almost all the cruise traffic and is the shopping island, with two walk-off berths at Havensight and Crown Bay. St. Croix is the largest and least visited, with two Danish colonial towns and a pier at Frederiksted that doubles as a well-known shore dive. St. John has no cruise pier at all and is usually reached as a day trip by ferry from St. Thomas.
The best day in the territory is arguably not on the island most ships dock at. Two-thirds of St. John is the Virgin Islands National Park, and Trunk Bay has a marked underwater snorkel trail — but reaching it consumes most of a St. Thomas port call, so it needs deciding in advance rather than on the morning.
Every US Virgin Islands cruise port
St. Croix
The largest and least-visited US Virgin Island, with a pier at Frederiksted, Danish colonial towns and a pier dive site beneath the ship.
St. John
Two-thirds national park, reached by tender or by ferry from St. Thomas — the quietest and greenest of the US Virgin Islands.
St. Thomas
The busiest Eastern Caribbean call — a US territory with duty-free shopping, a harbour town of Danish colonial streets and no passport friction for Americans.
Regions US Virgin Islands sits in
Other countries with cruise ports
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- France
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Honduras
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montenegro
- Puerto Rico
- Sint Maarten
- Spain
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Turkey
- United States
Taking a group to US Virgin Islands
Five cabins or more held together as one block, quoted once, with each household booking and paying separately. Tell us roughly when and how many.