Driving Tips on St. Thomas, USVI
The decision on whether to rent a car or not could make or break your trip!
We elected to rent a car for our stay at a resort near Red Hook on Sapphire Beach. It was a privately owned villa, so there were no other options for transportation, other than taxis. After reading reviews on Expedia, I thought that it would be prudent to do so. The review that I paid attention to was that you could not walk to get groceries, so a car was necessary. It was a great decision for this trip.
But there is an important thing to note: driving here is on the left!
Yes, St. Thomas is a U. S. Territory but the cars are sourced from the U.S. The steering wheel is still on the left and you are driving on the left. My husband took on this chore, somewhat reluctantly, but I knew he could do it.
He asked me to remind him to stay left as we drove. It was an odd sensation for both of us. He needed to hug the shoulder, remembering that the left turns were tight, and the right turns were wide. For reasons I’ll disclose in another post, we ended up having part of our drive to the resort (which was on the East side of the island) in the dark. The St. Thomas airport is on the West side near the city of Charlotte Amalie.
