Ten nights, two regions · 10 nights · Simpson Bay, St Maarten to Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas

St Barths then the Virgin Islands: ten nights, St Maarten to St Thomas

A weekend in St Barths and Anguilla's beach picnic, an overnight passage downwind, then a week in the Virgins. St Maarten to St Thomas.

Planned by the Ahoy Club charter team and reshaped for every yacht and every group we send here.

Best months
December - April
How long
11 Days / 10 Nights
Start and finish
Simpson Bay, St Maarten to Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas
The pace
11 days, 9 stops
Suits
Family & friends
1

St Barths

St Barths, northern Leewards · 16 nm · 1.5 h · Board, and straight across

Day 1, St Barths

Board in Simpson Bay and St Barths is on the bow in ninety minutes. Start on the quiet north-west corner: no road, no building, turtles under the boat. Swim, settle, dinner on deck.

  • Ninety minutes from boarding to St Barths
  • The quiet corner first
  • Turtles under the boat
2

St Barths

St Barths, northern Leewards · 2 nm · 15 min · Gustavia, Nao, the first night out

Day 2, St Barths

Into Gustavia. Lunch at Nao or La Guérite, the boutiques along the quay, a swim at Shell Beach, dinner at Bonito with the harbour lit below, then Le Ti if the table wants to dance.

  • Lunch at Nao or La Guérite
  • Shell Beach and the boutiques
  • Bonito, then Le Ti St Barth
3

St Barths

St Barths, northern Leewards · Stay · Beach clubs, the DJ night

Day 3, St Barths

The Saturday. Nikki Beach or Shellona for the long lunch, Gouverneur or Saline by tender for anyone who wants empty sand, and the DJ night at Bagatelle or La Guérite. Party group? We check who is playing before we fix the dates.

  • Nikki Beach or Shellona
  • Saline and Gouverneur by tender
  • The DJ night in Gustavia
4

Anguilla, then the night passage

Anguilla, northern Leewards · 23 nm · 2.5 h · The beach picnic, Elvis' at sunset, then west

Day 4, Anguilla, then the night passage

North-west to Anguilla for the crew's beach picnic on Rendezvous Bay or Sandy Island, then sunset drinks at Elvis' shack with the locals and the hammocks. Dinner on board, and after it the yacht slips out for the overnight passage to the Virgin Islands. Eighty miles downwind, eight hours, and the stabilisers do the rest.

  • The beach picnic on the sand
  • Sunset at Elvis' Beach Bar
  • The overnight passage departs after dinner
5

Virgin Gorda

Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands · 81 nm · 8 h, overnight · Wake up in the Virgins

Day 5, Virgin Gorda

Breakfast with Virgin Gorda coming up ahead. Clear in, then the Baths in the quiet of the afternoon: granite boulders the size of houses, grottoes and pools between them. Into the North Sound for the night, Saba Rock or the Bitter End.

  • Arrive mid-morning after the passage
  • The Baths
  • The North Sound for the night
6

Anegada

Anegada, British Virgin Islands · 14 nm · 1.5 h · Lobster on the beach

Day 6, Anegada

The flat coral island ringed by reef. Loblolly Bay and Cow Wreck Beach for the day, flamingos in the salt ponds, and Anegada lobster grilled on the beach at sunset.

  • Loblolly Bay
  • The flamingos
  • Lobster on the beach
7

Cooper Island

Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands · 23 nm · 2.5 h · Reef and rum

Day 7, Cooper Island

South with the toys out at the lunch stop. Turtles at Cistern Point, the Cooper Island rum bar and microbrewery in the afternoon, a quiet night on the mooring.

  • Turtles at Cistern Point
  • The rum bar
  • A quiet mooring
8

Norman Island

Norman Island, British Virgin Islands · 8 nm · 45 min · The Caves and the Indians

Day 8, Norman Island

Forty-five minutes to Treasure Island. Snorkel the Caves and the Indians, the best fish life in the Virgins, and the Bight for the night with the Willy T floating bar for those who want it.

  • The Caves and the Indians
  • The Bight
  • The Willy T, optional
9

Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands · 12 nm · 1 h · The Soggy Dollar and Foxy's

Day 9, Jost Van Dyke

An hour round to White Bay. Swim ashore to the Soggy Dollar for a Painkiller, which is how the bar got its name, then Foxy's in Great Harbour for the last BVI night.

  • Swim ashore to the Soggy Dollar
  • A Painkiller
  • Foxy's
10

St John

St John, US Virgin Islands · 5 nm · 30 min · Back into the US, the last park bay

Day 10, St John

Clear into the US at Cruz Bay and spend the last day at Maho Bay in the national park: turtles in the seagrass, the calmest water of the trip, and the farewell dinner on deck.

  • Turtles at Maho Bay
  • The national park
  • Farewell dinner at anchor
11

St Thomas

St Thomas, US Virgin Islands · 12 nm · 1 h · Disembark

Day 11, St Thomas

An hour to Charlotte Amalie after breakfast. Fifteen minutes to the airport and direct flights across the US.

  • Breakfast on the move
  • Fifteen minutes to the airport

The idea of the week

The way to see the islands people know by name without rushing either. Start in St Maarten, take St Barths over the weekend and Anguilla for the beach picnic, then slip out after dinner for the one overnight passage of the trip, eighty miles west with the trade wind behind you, and wake up in the Virgin Islands with a week ahead: the Baths, Anegada, Norman Island, Jost Van Dyke and St John, finishing in St Thomas for the direct flight home.

We run it west on purpose. The same passage east, from the Virgins to St Barths, is a long night into the wind. This way most guests sleep through it. Superyacht charters start on any day of the week, so the route stands on its own. If you want the crowd and the DJs in St Barths, we line your dates up so those two nights fall on a Friday and Saturday. Legs are approximate, at a steady ten knots, and the captain adjusts them for the weather on the day.

  • Party
  • Family & friends
  • Two regions
  • Beaches

What the week costs

The yacht's published weekly rate, plus an Advance Provisioning Allowance, customarily 30 percent, for fuel, food, drink and berths, plus local VAT where it applies. Every listing shows its rate.

How charter pricing works

Also on this coast

Everything we know about Caribbean: when to go, where the fleet is and the other weeks we have planned.

Open Caribbean

Woven into the week

What the crew arrange along the way

The parts of the week that need a phone call before you arrive: tables, guides, instructors and the toys on deck.

The beach picnic

The beach picnic

The crew land a table, chairs, umbrellas and a kitchen on a beach with nobody else on it and cook lunch there. Anguilla is the best place in the Caribbean for one; the crew will find the others.

A themed day or night on board, at least one

A themed day or night on board, at least one

The Caribbean is about the boat, so we plan at least one themed day or night. Tell us the idea before the charter and the crew have the costumes and decorations ready: pirate night is the classic.

The toys, every day

Seabobs, paddleboards, wakeboards, the slide if the yacht has one. In the Caribbean the water is the point, and the crew have them in by the time breakfast is cleared.

Diving and snorkelling

Reefs off almost every anchorage, a dive instructor on most yachts, and gear for everyone. The Tobago Cays, Anegada's Horseshoe Reef and the Indians in the BVI are the ones people talk about afterwards.

Guests arriving late or leaving early

No problem. Most of the islands have a small airstrip and propeller planes run back to the gateway airport, so a mid-charter changeover is a short flight rather than the boat turning round.

  • St Barths, Anguilla, Nevis and Antigua all have strips
  • Virgin Gorda and Beef Island in the BVI
  • Bequia, Canouan and Union Island in the Grenadines

Helicopter day

A heli pick-up from the yacht for a day on another island, or the flight in from the gateway airport instead of the first cruise. We arrange it and the pilot meets you on the quay.

  • St Maarten to St Barths in twelve minutes
  • Antigua to Barbuda over the lagoon
  • St Thomas to anywhere in the Virgins

Yachts

Yachts available in Caribbean right now

Live from our charter list, in a different order every visit so you see the range. Every rate is the real weekly figure from the listing.

CORAL OCEAN

CORAL OCEAN

Lürssen · 73m · 1994, refit 2026

12 guests | 6 cabins | 28 crew

€650k – 790k

ENCORE

ENCORE

Sunreef Yachts · 18m · 2026

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$56k – 62k

VAGATOR

VAGATOR

Fountaine Pajot · 20m · 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

€38k – 57k

ALEXA OF LONDON

ALEXA OF LONDON

38m · 1992, refit 2025

9 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

€65k – 70k

SIETE MARES

SIETE MARES

Lagoon · 24m · 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€65k – 69k

Chakra

Chakra

Devonport · 86m · 1998, refit 2025

24 guests | 19 cabins | 30 crew

€495k

REVA NUI

REVA NUI

Lagoon · 24m · 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€60k – 83k

NORTHERN STAR

NORTHERN STAR

Hinckley · 23m · 1993, refit 2022

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$52k – 60k

MISS CHRISTINE

MISS CHRISTINE

Trinity Yachts · 48m · 2006, refit 2024

11 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

$165k – 190k

MINE GAMES

MINE GAMES

Benetti · 50m · 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 10 crew

$330k – 350k

IL MIO CANTO LIBERO

IL MIO CANTO LIBERO

Nautor's Swan · 32m · 2014, refit 2026

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€85k – 102k

The Peddler

The Peddler

Custom Line · 26m · 2019

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$69k – 74k

Vivi

Vivi

Sunreef Yachts · 18m · 2024

8 guests | 3 crew

$53k – 58k

ARKTOS

ARKTOS

Lagoon · 24m · 2026

9 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€70k – 96k

UTOPIA IV

UTOPIA IV

Rossinavi · 63m · 2018, refit 2022

12 guests | 6 cabins | 12 crew

$475k – 505k

Ascension

Ascension

Lagoon · 19m · 2018, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$38k – 44k

RAY

RAY

Sunreef Yachts · 22m · 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

€70k – 77k

NEVER ENOUGH

NEVER ENOUGH

Feadship · 43m · 1992, refit 2019

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

$110k – 127k

KASKAZI FOUR

KASKAZI FOUR

Lagoon · 19m · 2016, refit 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€23k – 30k

Lady Joy

Lady Joy

Christensen · 48m · 2007, refit 2025

12 guests | 6 cabins | 11 crew

$199k – 225k

HOUBARA

HOUBARA

Sunreef Yachts · 24m · 2012, refit 2026

7 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

€34k – 45k

GRAND ILLUSION

GRAND ILLUSION

Palmer Johnson · 44m · 1994, refit 2017

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

$115k – 125k

LE PONANT

LE PONANT

Société Française de Construction Navale (SFCN) · 84m · 1990, refit 2022

32 guests | 16 cabins | 34 crew

€540k

OCEAN CLUB

OCEAN CLUB

Trinity Yachts · 49m · 2009, refit 2025

12 guests | 5 cabins | 10 crew

$195k – 250k

CROSSED SABRE

CROSSED SABRE

Burger · 44m · 2006, refit 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 11 crew

$175k – 195k

BELLA

BELLA

Feadship · 45m · 2008, refit 2014

12 guests | 6 cabins | 9 crew

€245k – 255k

SEA BLISS

SEA BLISS

Sunreef Yachts · 23m · 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

€63k – 70k

XENIA 74

XENIA 74

Alliaura Marine Group · 23m · 2012

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$37k

CALYPSO

CALYPSO

Feadship · 38m · 1978, refit 2025

11 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

$120k – 135k

VALINOR

VALINOR

Lagoon · 17m · 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

€27k – 31k

ENTRE 4

ENTRE 4

Sunreef Yachts · 24m · 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$100k – 125k

REVE BLEU

REVE BLEU

Lagoon · 21m · 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€45k – 60k

Just Enough

Just Enough

43m · 2012, refit 2024

11 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

$119k – 139k

TOP FIVE II

TOP FIVE II

Royal Hakvoort · 61m · 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 19 crew

$600k – 650k

OKINAWA

OKINAWA

Fountaine Pajot · 18m · 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 3 crew

$29k – 63k

LOOMA

LOOMA

Fountaine Pajot · 20m · 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$34k – 65k

QARA

QARA

Horizon · 25m · 2001, refit 2023

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$37k – 42k

Southern Belle

Southern Belle

Johnson · 27m · 2006

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$54k – 59k

Aurelius 111

Aurelius 111

DUTCH YACHT BUILDERS · 34m · 2011, refit 2023

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

Price on request

FRENCH WEST

FRENCH WEST

Lagoon · 24m · 2020

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$55k – 72k

WHISPER

WHISPER

Holland Jachtbouw · 35m · 2003, refit 2019

6 guests | 3 cabins | 5 crew

Price on request

ELVIS MAGIC

ELVIS MAGIC

Oyster Marine · 20m · 2003, refit 2025

6 guests | 3 cabins | 2 crew

$25k – 26k

SWEET CAROLINE II

SWEET CAROLINE II

Trinity Yachts · 50m · 2009, refit 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 11 crew

$19k – 230k

SHADES OF GREY

SHADES OF GREY

Sunreef · 24m · 2024

9 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

€70k – 80k

SHADES OF GREY

SHADES OF GREY

Sunreef Yachts · 24m · 2024

9 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

€70k – 100k

YOLO

YOLO

Sunreef Yachts · 22m · 2022

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

€59k – 70k

46 yachts in rotation. The order changes with every visit so no boat is always last.

Make it two weeks

One more week, one more coast

A week is one country. Two weeks reaches the neighbour across the water, and the crossing is part of the trip. Each of these joins onto this week; choose one and we send both weeks, day by day, as one plan.

Back to Caribbean

The other weeks we have planned on this coast, and when to go.