Getting There

By Plane

All flights to St. Croix land at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, Estate Mannings Bay (tel. 340/778-1012), on the southern 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 (tel. 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 (tel. 800/433-7300; www.aa.com) offers several daily nonstop 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 has three daily flights; in addition, Seaborne Airlines (tel. 888/359-8687 or 340/773-6442; www.seaborneairlines.com) offers 17 flights daily. Flight time is only 25 minutes.