"The rooms are lovely; each with views of the beautiful Cane Garden Bay. The hotel is situated on one end of the post card worthy beach with crystal clear water. The staff could not have been friendlier or more helpful. Indeed, I have been all over the West Indies and have never encountered more uniformly friendly residents than in this chain of aptly named Virgin Islands. Tortola is retro-Caribbean, and I mean that in the most positive sense. There was only one cruise ship in port for a day the week we stayed, and we avoided the hordes by driving to Smugglers Cove, an even more impossibly beautiful and remote beach, accessible only with 4 wheel drive-so no tourist vans could reach it. This is not for everyone. If your idea of a Caribbean getaway tends towards mass tourism destinations such as Aruba, the DR, or the Dutch side of St Maarten, then Tortola probably wouldn’t be your cup of tea. Oh, and since the BVI are obviously British, they do drive on the left side, which can be quite the adventure on the winding hilltop roads."
