Other islands, mystery photo, free passports
Sunday’s NYT Travel section cover story features 10 Caribbean islands and why they’re hot. Check them out, because there is just no room to park at Maho anymore.
There’s also a “no passport required” story in the In Transit column with a villa pool photo it identifies as St. John. Anybody recognize the house? We don’t. (Grab the office copy of the Times and take a look. It’s on page 2.) In Transit also notes Delta’s new nonstop flights from NY JFK to St. Thomas starting in March.
And as evidence of how worried other islands are about the new passport requirements, there’s an ad for the Bahamas that says if you spend at least two nights on Nassau, the tourism folks will reimburse you for you the cost of getting passports for your entire family.
Air fare update: We just bought tickets for February travel on US Airways for $268/RT. That is just $10 more than the cheapest DCA-STT fare we’ve ever had. You might want to take a look at fares right now.
January 28th, 2007 14:11
You don’t know how lucky you are. We have been checking air fare for weeks and right now Boston to STT is $539 RT on any of the airlines. This included February. We are trying to book for late June and can find nothing under $525 RT. STJ is just getting tooooo popular.
January 29th, 2007 08:35
And to think when I used to travel to St.John on vacation 10 years ago, the typical airfare with USAir was always $1000 - $1200 RT!
January 29th, 2007 13:55
Sheesh, makes the price I recently bought my ticket at look like robbery. Then again, if the trade-off for robbery were always ending up on STJ, I wouldn’t mind being the victim in that scenario.