lmflowers3 Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 Heading to St. Thomas end of August and want to take my boys snorkeling they are 12 and 15 - can't decide between these 2 locations. Thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDay4Cruisin Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 My family snorkeled at Coki Beach last year and we saw lots of fish. There fish are used to being fed. The aquarium (rather small but not bad) is next door and we had an excursion that dropped us at the aquarium and we walked to the beach. We arranged a time with the driver to return for us. ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjac Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 13 hours ago, lmflowers3 said: Heading to St. Thomas Hi Sunny, Welcome to the message boards. Feel free to ask away with any questions you may have. We have been to S. Thomas many times and we really like the excursion that Royal offers called "The Secret Sands Beach Exclusive and Skyline Drive". Really nice beach, not crowded and clean. The beach is in a state park and has a clean bath house with restrooms. The open air bus will take you right to the beach and drops you off. You will be greeted by a young entrepreneur whose name is Kareem. He will have loungers all set up on the beach some in the shade and some in full sun. He also has snorkeling gear, sodas, beer, rum punch and many snacks which is free. All he asks is for a tip when you leave. He is also very good at taking photos with your camera/smart phone, he knows them all! We have done this excursion three times. Last year we had our grand kids with us (8 and 12) and I taught them how to snorkel. About 50' from the shore line there is a nice sea grass covered and coral covered reef that's 8' deep. I took the grands out to the reef and we saw a couple of green sea turtles munching away o the sea grass and a multitude of tropical fish. On the swim back to the beach the water dropped down to maybe 20' and we had a large Southern Sting Ray swim under us (he was down on the sandy bottom). Needless to say we had a great swim/snorkel experience and, of course, they keep asking to go back! Hope this helps and enjoy your trip! ChessE4 and Cruisegirl1976 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisegirl1976 Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 19 hours ago, rjac said: Hi Sunny, Welcome to the message boards. Feel free to ask away with any questions you may have. We have been to S. Thomas many times and we really like the excursion that Royal offers called "The Secret Sands Beach Exclusive and Skyline Drive". Really nice beach, not crowded and clean. The beach is in a state park and has a clean bath house with restrooms. The open air bus will take you right to the beach and drops you off. You will be greeted by a young entrepreneur whose name is Kareem. He will have loungers all set up on the beach some in the shade and some in full sun. He also has snorkeling gear, sodas, beer, rum punch and many snacks which is free. All he asks is for a tip when you leave. He is also very good at taking photos with your camera/smart phone, he knows them all! We have done this excursion three times. Last year we had our grand kids with us (8 and 12) and I taught them how to snorkel. About 50' from the shore line there is a nice sea grass covered and coral covered reef that's 8' deep. I took the grands out to the reef and we saw a couple of green sea turtles munching away o the sea grass and a multitude of tropical fish. On the swim back to the beach the water dropped down to maybe 20' and we had a large Southern Sting Ray swim under us (he was down on the sandy bottom). Needless to say we had a great swim/snorkel experience and, of course, they keep asking to go back! Hope this helps and enjoy your trip! I was actually thinking about this excursion also.. thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjac Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Cruisegirl1976 said: I was actually thinking about this excursion also.. thanks for the info. You're welcome. Please let me know how it went, especially with Kareem. Hope he's still there, wonderful guy. Cruisegirl1976 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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