Sapphire Beach Resort

Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina, the tranquil hideaway with its own yacht marina stands along a white-sand beach on the eastern tip of St Thomas. Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina's beach extends 200 yards along the half-mile-long shore fronting the resort. This 30-acre Virgin Island beach resort, Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina, attracts families with amenities such as water sports. Other guests include couples seeking sunny tranquility and relaxation, as well as yachting guests who moor their boats at the resort's 67-slip marina. Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina features expansive Caribbean views from open-air vantage points.

* Attracting families as well as romance-minded couples, Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina offers use of water-sports equipment. Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina's large, two-level swimming pool is surrounded by a flagstone sundeck and rock walls with views of the Caribbean and nearby islands. The three-foot-deep upper level functions as a children's pool. * Amenities include a water sports center with snorleling, windsurfing and sunfish sailing. Guest enjoy tennis on two courts, lit for night play. * The recreational activities following are available either on-site or near the hotel: golfing, snorkeling, boating, swimming, kayaking, sailing, scuba diving, windsurfing, volleyball, tennis, running track /path, hiking /biking trails, parasailing and fishing.

* Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina offers 171 spacious guest suites and villas in six four-story colonial-style buildings with red-steel roofs, dormer windows, and weathered-wood balconies and staircases. Three buildings are reserved for families. Buildings don't include elevators, but guests walk up three floors at most, because two-floor villas are located on the buildings' top stories. * Spacious, air-conditioned suites and villas at Sapphire Beach Resort & Marina have full kitchens, living /dining areas, and furnished balconies with sea views. All rooms have ceiling fans, rattan furniture, and satellite tv.