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Why Vacations Are Important For Your Health

When we are children, we experience the joy of summer vacations. Remember the elation of feeling free from the responsibility of school and having fun during the summer months? We still crave that feeling as adults. That’s why we need vacations! A luxury Caribbean vacation is the adult way of feeling free. While you may… Read more »

Why A Romantic Vacation With Your Lover Is Healthy

Vacations are known to recharge your relationship. Trying to keep up with the hectic schedules that life gives us along with technology overload, causes couples to drift apart. It can even seem daunting to find the time to get away from your responsibilities for a bit. Your relationship and your partner will thank you for… Read more »

Annniversaries at Mooncottage are Incredible

Romantic Getaways Caribbean Rekindle Love

Mooncottage is one of the best Romantic Getaways Caribbean villa for putting that certain “spark” back into a relationship. Although Mooncottage is famous for being one of the best Honeymoon Destinations in the Caribbean, at least 50% of our percent of our romantic guests come to our St John luxury villas for milestone Anniversaries. And,… Read more »

Romantic Getaways at Last

ST John Romantic Getaways: “Here at Last”

“I liked that one the best of all,” he says of her swimsuit, slowly raising an eyebrow above the rim of his sun-glinted shades. She smiles, and glides catlike onto the beach towel beside him. She’d bought the two-piece showstopper only a few days before they’d left for St John and the beach vacation of… Read more »

Calabash Road Construction 1

ST John Villas Road Gets Facelift

ST John Villas need nice roads to make life easier … but, on some parts of our lovely island still, the VI Territorial Government has never met their commitment to pave. In our case in Calabash Boom, many of our former guests have nothing but praise about our romantic Couples Getaways villas like Mooncottage and… Read more »

Romantic Getaways Toes in the Sand

5 Warnings About Romantic Getaways in ST John

Before you consider coming to the Virgin Islands and staying at one of our romantic getaways villas, there are a few important things you should consider. Please read the following so that you can reduce surprises and more accurately manage your expectations: Your Sense of Time Will Change.The slow-moving clouds and laid-back atmosphere will make… Read more »

Pools at Luxury Caribbean Villas are Sublime

Luxury Caribbean Villas & Learning to Swim

Should You Learn to Swim before Arriving? Whether splashing in the pools at our Mooncottages Luxury Caribbean Villas or enjoying unlimited activities in the ocean, people come for the water. One of the major attraction for people visiting the Virgin Islands, is surely the water. But if you’re a person who doesn’t know how to swim,… Read more »

Protected ST John Coral Reefs

ST John Villas and Spectacular Coral Reefs

OK … yes, believe it or not this is really one of the spectacular ST John Villas views where you can sit back and and enjoy the spectacular Coral Reefs of the Virgin Islands. Right from your Plantation Chair here in front of you is Hurricane Hole – a Federally protected area and part of… Read more »

Mooncottages Available Dates

New ST John Villas Site Does More

Hi Everybody, We’ve been away for a while. But, we’ve been busy improving our Mooncottages ST John Villas site making it far more user friendly and fun to use. Now it’s easy to check real-time villa availability with a new calendar function that works on any mobile device like your iPhone or equally well on… Read more »

US Virgin Islands 1918

ST John in the year 1914: History Lives On

ST John in the year 1914–can you imagine? That’s when Guy Benjamin was born, out on the East End of the ST John. History is everywhere here. There are some wonderful photos from old-time ST John, but this was what things looked like over on ST Thomas to give you an idea c. 1918. Who… Read more »