Every bar where you drink with the sand under your feet or the water at the end of the dock, from St. Croix to Anegada: 93 of them, island by island, with hours, happy hours, the drink each is known for, the story, and how to get there. Pick an island, or see them all.
The page shows the island you pick: its map with every bar pinned, then a card for each. The hash in the address remembers it, so the link you share opens on that island.
The crawl map draws your day between the bars; the rest gets you to them.
Sunrise 6:14 AM, sunset 5:58 PM on St. Thomas today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the St. Thomas guide.
12 beach bars on St. Thomas; the numbers match the cards below.
Photo: Erika Lombardo, CC BY 2.0The Doumeng family's resort beach bar with live music most nights and the Wednesday Cruzan Carnival Night (buffet at 6, fire-walking and limbo at 8); the original bar was destroyed by Irma and has reopened on the sand.
Photo: PunctuatedArt, CC0A two-storey open pavilion in the sea-grape shade looking across to St. John, with Sunday Funday (live band 3–6 PM) and a monthly Full Moon Party with fire dancers.
Photo: Koichi Shibata, CC BY-SA 3.0The only bar on Magens Bay, steps from the towels at the park's main pavilion: coconut shrimp, house pizzas and frozen drinks.
A low deck steps from the water on one of St. Thomas's few west-facing beaches, so the whole bar turns to the sunset; book early for a sunset table.
A palm-shaded tiki bar on Lindbergh Bay sand right beside the airport runway: planes land over the water, locals come for sunset and sports on TV; the St. Thomas Lime Out floats off this beach.
A dockside bar at the water's edge on Water Bay with a dinghy dock, bingo and local musicians: the nearest proper bar to Coki Beach, which has only vendor shacks on the sand.
'St. Thomas's original beach bar' (1970) at the surfers' bay, with a weekend barber in the car park; closed in 2020, sold and reopened in December 2021 as The Shack inside The Hideaway cottage estate.
The cash-only marina bar where the charter-yacht and catamaran crews drink, with a short menu of burgers, sushi and craft beer; on the dock, not the sand.
A covered deck over the water next to the St. John ferry dock: the place to wait for the boat with a drink.
Tables on the sand under palms and string lights at the resort that opened in May 2023 below the Westin: 'part of the hotel but the personality of a true beach bar'; the Sandbar beside it is the sunset-drinks spot.
The Caribbean's only floating pizzeria: a sailboat abandoned in Antigua, rebuilt and firing pizzas in Christmas Cove since November 2014, with a dinghy drive-through.
The second Lime Out barge, moored in Lindbergh Bay with swim-up seats and lily-pad floats, reached by the Taco Tug from Crown Bay or a ten-minute boat from Emerald Beach; the same eight tacos as Coral Bay.
Sunrise 6:14 AM, sunset 5:58 PM on Water Island today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Water Island guide.
1 beach bar on Water Island; the numbers match the cards below.
Started as a bar on a boat trailer, bought by Giorgio and Lisa in 2013 and named for the thirty dinghies beached in front of it: hammocks, games, live music Sundays, and the hourly Water Island ferry from Crown Bay that makes it the locals' alternative to a Jost day.
Sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 5:57 PM on St. John today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the St. John guide.
11 beach bars on St. John; the numbers match the cards below.
Photo: Fred Hsu, CC BY-SA 3.0Picnic tables on the tiny beach at the end of Wharfside, two minutes from the ferry: St. John's most famous beach bar, with live music almost every night, four live webcams and sunsets over the harbour.
A shaded open-air bar on the sand steps from the Cruz Bay ferry, pouring from breakfast (guava mimosas) through dinner: the first and last drink of a St. John day.
The open-sided rum shack on the sand beside The Beach Bar, long famous for the cheapest happy hour in Cruz Bay and lobster pizza.
A harbourside bar and grill a few steps from the ferry, open from breakfast, with a view of the boats rather than sand underfoot; open all off-season.
A patio seemingly right above the water at St. John's port of entry, pouring the Lovango resort's own house-made rums with wood-fired pizzas and live music at sunset.
A rustic shack in the Coral Harbor boatyard a few yards from the water, St. John's institution since 1991 for half-pound grilled cheeseburgers, horseshoes and weekend live music; every drink hand-shaken.
Tables under the sea grapes at the water's edge on Friis Bay, named for Lucy Smith, St. John's first female taxi driver: conch fritters with mango sauce, the grouper Reuben, Thursday open mic. The island's quietest beachfront bar.
An eco-minded tiki bar, food truck, boutique and kayak and paddleboard rental across the road from the turtle beach, named a top Caribbean beach bar four years running; acoustic sunset sessions. Open all off-season.
The original floating taco bar: a lime-green barge with swim-up seats and lily-pad floats in Coral Bay Harbor, reached by the Coral Harbor Shuttle, dinghy or a day sail from Cruz Bay.
A private-island beach club opened in December 2020 by the Snider family: day passes with the ferry, a chaise, snorkel gear and a welcome rum punch, a 70 ft infinity pool and the SandPit for live music at dusk.
The sand-floored outdoor bar and grill between the Westin's pool and its Great Cruz Bay beach, open to non-guests from breakfast bowls to cocktails.
Sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 5:57 PM on St. Croix today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the St. Croix guide.
14 beach bars on St. Croix; the numbers match the cards below.
St. Croix's best-known beach bar, for decades on the island's west-facing sand with the rainforest behind it; Sunday Funday with a rotating band roster is one of the Caribbean's great weekly parties. Busy on cruise days.
An open-air upstairs bar and hammock chairs on the sand a ten-minute walk from the Frederiksted cruise pier, next to The Fred: Hangover Nachos and mahi tacos.
Toes-in-the-sand (or floating in the flat west-coast water) drinks at an adults-only resort half a mile from the cruise pier; Sunday brunch and the seafood chowder.
Umbrella-shaded picnic tables by the sea on the town beach north of the pier: stuffed pâtés, whole fried snapper and tostones, the local-style option among Frederiksted's beach bars.
A painted open-air deck perched on the rocks just above Cane Bay ('no shoes, no shirt, no problem') with pizzas and calzones, regular bands and beach bingo on Tuesdays.
A covered deck and walk-up bar directly across Cane Bay Road from the beach, the latest incarnation of the site that was the Cane Bay Beach Bar and Eat@Cane Bay; the island's best craft-beer list, Burger Mondays and Wing Wednesdays.
Photo: Clark Anderson / Aquaimages, CC BY-SA 2.5A family-owned shack right on the Cane Bay sand with beach volleyball, snorkel and kayak rentals, a gift shop and the Sunday pig roast with a live band.
Photo: Prayitno, CC BY 2.0An open-air deck on the Christiansted boardwalk since 2000, looking over the harbour to Protestant Cay, with weekend bands and the harbour webcam on its deck.
A two-level waterfront brewpub on the boardwalk with Wednesday hermit-crab races and the Thursday seafood boil with live music.
A nautical tiki bar at the water's edge on the boardwalk corner, opened in October 2019 with one of the USVI's best rum lists, puffer-fish lamps and thirty-odd tiki cocktails.
Family-owned since 1983 and built right on the Teague Bay sand beside the yacht club: a sunset-dinner bar rather than a day-drinking spot, with local lobster and the day's catch.
An oceanfront bar and grill in a tropical garden between Tamarind Reef's pool and its reef-protected beach, with live music on Saturdays and Sundays.
A white-rattan beachside restaurant with a bar steps from the sand at the Buccaneer, open to day visitors; the resort's Beauregard's on the Beach does Friday-night fire dancers.
The renovated beachside restaurant (once the Chenay Bay Beach Resort) with a walk-up bar on the sand, chairs and watersports on a calm East End bay; live entertainment some nights.
Sunrise 6:14 AM, sunset 5:57 PM on Jost Van Dyke today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Jost Van Dyke guide.
16 beach bars on Jost Van Dyke; the numbers match the cards below.
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0Where the Painkiller was invented in the 1970s. No dock: you anchor off and swim or dinghy in and pay with wet bills, which named the bar. Voted USA Today's best Caribbean beach bar three years running through 2026.
Opened in 1970 by George and Marie Myrick; the second owner, Daphne Henderson, renamed it for the soggy dollars and mixed the first Painkiller (dark rum, cream of coconut, pineapple, orange, nutmeg) behind this bar.
The thatched open-air bar and the better kitchen on White Bay, next door to the Soggy Dollar, run by the O'Neal-Henderson family since 2016; Sunday brunch, sushi Thursdays, the Delirious Donkey (citrus vodka, lime, ginger beer).
Photo: Mattes, CC BY 2.0 deThe bar of Gertrude Aloma Callwood, one of Jost Van Dyke's first businesswomen, who lived on White Bay most of her life and died in August 2024 at 78; the family carries it on, with the chicken roti.
The tiny snack shack in the row of White Bay bars, by the superette: the place for a hot dog or a burger on Jost Van Dyke.
Seddy Callwood's (Foxy's oldest son) driftwood-and-flotsam bar at the quiet end of the beach, known for lobster quesadillas and live reggae on weekend afternoons.
Uncle Willard's laid-back lunch shack at the far west end of White Bay, past One Love: tacos, pizza and quesadillas.
Seventh-generation Jost native Ivan Chinnery's honour bar under a tamarind tree, with a tyre swing, hammocks, a campground and the famous shell-art signs; Thursday-night BBQ in season. Stays open all year.
Photo: Mattes, CC BY 2.0 deThe BVI's most famous bar: Philicianno 'Foxy' Callwood opened it under a tamarind tree in 1968 to welcome sailors, and it is still the home of the Old Year's Night (New Year's Eve) party and the Wooden Boat Regatta.
Foxy himself, with his guitar and his improvised calypsos about whoever just walked in, made the bar; it reopened within months of Irma in 2017.
Captain Vinny's monocle-wearing, pirate-decorated beach bar a short walk west of Foxy's, repeatedly rated the BVI's best restaurant for its pizzas, lobster rolls and steak-and-eggs breakfasts.
Ali Baba's sand-floored bar twenty feet off the water by the customs dock, with guest rooms behind; grilled lobster at dinner, chicken roti at lunch.
A newer small seafood shack and bar on the Great Harbour waterfront with the view across the harbour; stays open through the off-season.
Foxy's quieter, Mediterranean-leaning sister at the east end, where the walk to the Bubbly Pool starts; destroyed by Irma and reopened on New Year's Day 2019.
A boat-access-only shack on an otherwise empty island: jerk chicken and ribs off the grill, cornhole and ring toss, six to eight mooring balls out front, and the Passion Confusion, a rum-heavy cross between a Painkiller and a rum punch.
The sailors' institution where you mix your own drink and write it on your tab; Anegada lobster over an open fire, ribs and conch stew, on the dock at Little Harbour.
Abe and Eunicy Coakley's open-air native bar and restaurant run for decades on the east side of Little Harbour, with about ten moorings paid on the dinner tab; reopened in July 2019 after Irma.
The Harris family's small family-style restaurant and bar sharing Little Harbour's twenty moorings with Abe's; cash, PayPal or Zelle.
Sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 5:56 PM on Tortola today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Tortola guide.
21 beach bars on Tortola; the numbers match the cards below.
Photo: Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0Wellington 'Bomba' Smith's driftwood-and-signs shack, birthplace of the BVI full-moon party in 1989, was destroyed by Irma in 2017 and never rebuilt after a land dispute; listed permanently closed. The full-moon party moved to Trellis Bay.
Photo: Gdebsoc, CC BY-SA 4.0The open-air hotel bar and grill that opens straight onto Apple Bay's surf beach, next door to the old Bomba's site; the north shore's reliable beachside Painkiller.
The 1970s Sugar Mill Hotel's Mediterranean-style beach restaurant across the road on the Apple Bay sand ('tramonti' means sunsets); the hotel reopened in October 2023 after Irma.
The thatched palapa bar with live music on Tortola's longest beach, beside the Long Bay Beach Resort's 1748 restaurant and the new swim-up pool bar.
Nigel's Boom Boom: a tarp-shaded shack selling beer, hot dogs and daily platters and renting chairs on the secluded cove at the end of a pot-holed track at the far West End.
Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0For 43 years Quito's Gazebo, where reggae musician Quito Rymer played three nights a week; new owners reopened it as Rhythm & Sands with the Cane Garden Bay Beach Hotel in November 2024, promising to keep the music.
Photo: Legis, Public domainThe beachfront 'tree-house' garden bar, grill and inn founded in 1992 by Kareem and Valerie Rhymer on family land; live island bands at sunset several nights a week. Weekends and cruise-ship days only in hurricane season.
The pink Cane Garden Bay stalwart boaters drift into for breakfast and midday beers; conch, lobster and BBQ ribs, a steel-pan band on Thursday nights in the old days.
A quiet afternoon beach bar with old-school reggae, chairs and umbrellas to rent, and local bands some evenings and on the full moon, next to Rhythm & Sands.
Family-run since 'Dad' Elvet's humble shack of the 1980s, now a bar, restaurant and suites in the middle of the beach; swap sailing stories with Elvet over the Sunday BBQ. Closed from the end of July to November for the off-season.
The 1970s sailors' bar (later Tony's) where legend says Jimmy Buffett found his cheeseburger in paradise, with the palm-tree tyre swing, was wiped out by Irma in 2017 and not rebuilt.
A cosy beachfront restaurant and bar at the quiet south end of Cane Garden Bay with a garden and ocean-side tables, paired with the Indigo House art gallery.
The only beach bar left on Brewers Bay after the 2017 hurricanes: restrooms, chairs and snorkel gear to rent, and drinks on the snorkelling beach below the ruins.
The marina resort's beach bar and grill on Nanny Cay's small south-facing beach, handy for charter crews the day the boat comes back.
Photo: Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0Doug Riegels' thatched, recycled-hardwood beach bar rebuilt after the 2017 storms, the 'town square' of Trellis Bay and a stage of the monthly full-moon party, with a rum bar-within-a-bar of rhum agricole.
The market, bar and grill on Trellis Bay beside Aragorn's Studio, central to the monthly full-moon beach party with its burning fireball sculptures.
Photo: giggel, CC BY 3.0Pusser's waterfront pub and store on the painted Soper's Hole wharf; Pusser's trademarked the Painkiller name in 1989 and serves it with its own navy rum.
Omar's waterfront Indian-Caribbean restaurant and bar on the Soper's Hole wharf, the evening stop at West End.
The eight-acre island of Robb White's 'Our Virgin Island' and, from the 1990s, Pusser's Marina Cay; Scrub Island Resort reopened it as the Marina Cay Bar & Grill in June 2023 with 29 BoatyBall moorings and a private ferry.
Scrub Island's beachfront-and-marina bar over Donovan's Beach and the pools, open to visiting yachts in the 55-slip marina; the resort stays open through the off-season.
The resort's casual bar on Scrub Island's North Beach; a day pass ($50, less in the off-season) includes the ferry from Trellis Bay.
Sunrise 6:12 AM, sunset 5:55 PM on Virgin Gorda today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Virgin Gorda guide.
6 beach bars on Virgin Gorda; the numbers match the cards below.
The refreshment shack on the sand among The Baths' granite boulders at the foot of the trail: Painkillers, frozen margaritas and piña coladas; #4 on USA Today's Caribbean beach bars for 2026.
Spanish Town's most polished beach bar: low tables and fire pits on the sand facing the sunset over Tortola, south of the Yacht Harbour.
The small beachfront hotel's seafood restaurant and beach bar on Spanish Town's sand; confirm before you plan around it.
Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz MD, CC BY-SA 3.0The family-friendly beach bar at Leverick Bay Resort & Marina, port of call for North Sound cruisers, famous for the Friday-night stilt dancers; the downstairs bar stays open all year.
Photo: kansasphoto, CC BY 2.0A beach bar built into the hull of a boat raised from the North Sound seabed after Irma: the rebuilt Bitter End's most storied icon, reached by boat or water taxi, beside The Clubhouse.
Photo: Jon McManus, CC BY-SA 4.0Bert Kilbride's 1960s dive base and Pirates' Pub on a one-acre islet, flattened by Irma and reopened as Saba Rock 2.0 in October 2021 with the bar below and the happy-hour lounge upstairs; the North Sound webcam is here.
Sunrise 6:12 AM, sunset 5:55 PM on Anegada today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Anegada guide.
10 beach bars on Anegada; the numbers match the cards below.
Photo: anoldent, CC BY-SA 2.0Belle Creque's family-run, low wooden bar steps from the sand, named for the 1929 wreck of the cow-bone freighter Rocus: lobster on the beach and swimming with a drink in hand on Anegada's north-west shore.
Ann and Andrew's family-run bar on a small sandy bluff a few hundred yards along the beach from Cow Wreck, with cornhole, putting, giant Jenga, swings and a DJ some days; Google-rated 4.9.
Photo: Cayeldo, CC BY-SA 3.0The open-air pavilion among the sea-grape trees on Anegada's most famous beach, the island's busiest lunch stop, with snorkel gear and umbrellas; long owned by the late Aubrey Levons.
The quieter bar at the east end of Loblolly Bay, beside the best snorkelling off Loblolly Point; simple West Indian plates.
The glamping-tent resort's open-air beach bar on a long, empty north-shore beach between Cow Wreck and Loblolly, sister of Trellis Bay's Loose Mongoose.
The technicolour waterfront bar that is the first thing you see off the Anegada ferry: lobster dinners, live music, moorings and a beach shuttle. Stays open all year.
The dockside eatery and bar at the heart of Setting Point, known for sunset and barbecued lobster, with lobster through the whole menu down to the linguine.
A rustic, laid-back newer spot with candlelit tables on the beach at Setting Point and frequent live music; stays open through the off-season.
The relaxed bar-restaurant on the island's quietest beach, with Anegada's best sunsets over the water and flamingos on the pond behind; Sid runs free shuttles back to the hotels and the marina.
The island's original hotel's open-air waterfront bar, long called the busiest bar on Anegada; lobster fritters and the Rum Smoothie. Stays open through hurricane season.
Sunrise 6:13 AM, sunset 5:56 PM on Norman, Peter & Cooper today. Numbers match the map. Everything else about the island: the Norman, Peter & Cooper guide.
2 beach bars on Norman Island; the numbers match the cards below.
1 beach bar on Peter Island; the numbers match the cards below.
1 beach bar on Cooper Island; the numbers match the cards below.
The only thing ashore on the island that inspired Treasure Island: a big open-air beach bar and restaurant with more than a hundred moorings, its own shuttle from Hannah Bay on Tortola, and a cannon fired to open happy hour.
The William Thornton, a floating bar anchored in the Bight since 1989 and the wildest afternoon in the BVI: Painkillers, the shot-ski, and the leap from the upper deck. Stays open through hurricane season.
The first ship, a 1935 Baltic trader, sank in the mid-1990s; the steel second boat was wrecked by Irma and scuttled off Peter Island in 2019 as a dive site; the ~110 ft ex-supply ship that arrived in May 2018 served off Peter Island until it came back to the Bight in 2019.
The casual bar and grill of the rebuilt Peter Island Resort's Yacht Club, reopened in December 2024 after six years closed; boaters get in with a mooring or overnight dockage.
A solar-powered eco beach club with a west-facing sunset bar, a microbrewery and the Rum Bar with more than 400 rums, filling every night with the yachts on its moorings.
Each opens on the crawl map with the course drawn over the water round every headland, every leg timed, and the arrival at each bar checked against its hours. Add or drop a bar, change the boat or the start, and press Sail.
The Bight at Norman Island, the rum bar at Cooper Island, then up the channel to Marina Cay and Trellis Bay.
Willy T → Pirates Bight → Cooper Island → Marina Cay → Loose Mongoose
Open it on the crawl mapThe row of bars on one beach, on foot: the Soggy Dollar first while it is quiet, then east along the sand to Ivan's honour bar.
Soggy Dollar → Hendo's → Gertrude's → One Love → Ivan's
Open it on the crawl mapClear customs at Great Harbour, Foxy's and Corsairs on foot, over the hill to White Bay, then round the east end to the B-Line and Little Harbour.
Foxy's → Corsairs → Soggy Dollar → B-Line → Sidney's
Open it on the crawl mapThree bars on one sheltered sound: Leverick Bay, the hull bar at the Bitter End, sunset on Saba Rock.
Jumbies → Bitter End → Saba Rock
Open it on the crawl mapOff the ferry at Setting Point, then by taxi along the north shore from Cow Wreck to Loblolly; nobody sails round Horseshoe Reef.
Potter's → Cow Wreck → Tipsy's → Big Bamboo → Flash of Beauty
Open it on the crawl mapWater Island, the floating taco bar and the floating pizzeria, Cruz Bay, and the beach club on Lovango.
Dinghy's → Lime Out STT → Pizza Pi → The Beach Bar → Lovango
Open it on the crawl mapFive bars along one Tortola beach, north to south, ending at the quiet end.
Paradise Club → Rhythm & Sands → The Elm → Myett's → Indigo
Open it on the crawl mapSt. Croix's west coast, by taxi down the shore: Rainbow Beach to the town beach to Sand Castle.
Rhythms → Aquaholic → Louie & Nacho's → Sand Castle
Open it on the crawl mapOn St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix the beach bars are a taxi ride apart; the official fares are on the taxi page and on each card. Jost Van Dyke is a ferry: Red Hook and Cruz Bay to Great Harbour in about 45 minutes, West End on Tortola in 20, with BVI customs on the dock. From Great Harbour, Foxy’s and Corsairs are a walk along the sand; White Bay is a few minutes by taxi over the hill.
Norman Island, Peter Island, Cooper Island, the B-Line and the Willy T have no ferry: you arrive by charter boat, a day sail or your own dinghy. The Anegada bars are a ferry or a flight from Tortola and a taxi across the island. Today’s ferry departures are on the ferry page; a day charter to the out-island bars can be quoted at /charter.
Most of the BVI bars and a few on St. John close for some weeks between August and October, and a few open weekends only through the off-season. A bar that is shut shows Off season on its card, from the same dates our closures page tracks, so the two never disagree. Bomba’s and Stanley’s, wiped out by Irma in 2017 and never rebuilt, are kept on the Tortola list and marked, so nobody sails to a ruin.
A Painkiller on Jost, a Bushwacker in Cruz Bay, Cruzan Confusion by the bucket at Rainbow Beach, the Rum Smoothie on Anegada. Every card names the drink the bar is known for.
Hours here are what each bar posts, read in October 2026. They change with the season and the owner's mood; the bar's Facebook page is the live word, and the card's pill is on the island clock.
At the Soggy Dollar there is no dock: anchor off, swim or dinghy in. Keep the cash in a dry bag or let it get soggy; both are traditional.
On Anegada, dinner lobster is pulled to order: call by 4 PM. Sid's, the Reef Hotel and Potter's run shuttles back to the moorings.
The Beach Bar in Cruz Bay 3 to 7, Saba Rock 4 to 6 on the upper deck, the hull bar at the Bitter End 3 to 5, Pirates Bight at the 5 o'clock cannon. The crawl page times a day around them.
Most bars pour into plastic for the beach. Open containers are not allowed on public USVI beaches or in the national park on St. John; the BVI beaches with bars are relaxed about it.
The Soggy Dollar Bar on White Bay, Jost Van Dyke, where the Painkiller was invented in the 1970s. It has no dock: you anchor off and swim in, which is how the dollars got soggy. Foxy's Tamarind Bar in Great Harbour on the same island, open since 1968, is the other name everyone knows, and the Willy T, a floating bar on a ship in the Bight at Norman Island, is the wildest.
Pusser's Navy rum, pineapple juice, cream of coconut and orange juice over ice with fresh grated nutmeg on top. It was created at the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke in the 1970s; Pusser's trademarked the name in 1989, so other bars sell the same drink under their own names, and the Beach Bar in Cruz Bay sells it by the gallon to go.
Yes, and it is the classic BVI day. The map on this page draws the course between the bars you pick over the water, round every headland, with the distance and time at 20 knots in a power boat or 6 under sail, and the arrival time at each bar against its hours. The Drake Channel run (Willy T, Pirates Bight, Cooper Island, Marina Cay, Trellis Bay) and the Jost run are the two most sailed. A day charter from St. Thomas or St. John covers the Jost bars and customs in one day; see /charter.
Ferries run from Red Hook on St. Thomas and Cruz Bay on St. John to Great Harbour (about 45 minutes), and from West End, Tortola (about 20 minutes). Clear BVI customs on arrival. From Great Harbour a taxi over the hill to White Bay is a few minutes; Foxy's and Corsairs are a short walk along the beach from the ferry dock. Today's departures are on /ferry.
Willy T, Pizza Pi, Lime Out St. Thomas, Lime Out St. John. The Willy T is a ship anchored in the Bight at Norman Island; Pizza Pi is a sailboat in Christmas Cove off St. Thomas; the two Lime Outs are barges with swim-up seats in Coral Bay and Lindbergh Bay. You arrive by dinghy, by a shuttle boat, or you swim.
Many do, usually for some weeks between August and October, and some only open weekends in the off-season. The Soggy Dollar, Foxy's, the Cooper Island Beach Club, Saba Rock, the Bitter End, Pirates Bight and most of the Anegada bars all close for a stretch; Ivan's on White Bay, the Willy T and the Cruz Bay bars stay open. This page shows each bar's off-season state from our closures list at /seasonal-closures.
At a beach bar, yes, and most will let you carry a drink onto their stretch of sand. In the USVI open containers are not allowed on public beaches and in the national park on St. John; the BVI is more relaxed on the beaches the bars sit on. Glass is a bad idea on any beach.
No. Duffy's is a thatched tiki bar in the middle of the Red Hook Plaza car park on St. Thomas, the self-styled best parking-lot bar in the world, and it is not on this page. The nearest sand to it is Sapphire Beach, whose beach bar is listed.