The Los Angeles Times has published a major travel article on St. John by staff writer Christopher Reynolds that lauds the island's natural beauty even as it laments high prices for lodging and pulls no punches elsewhere.
Reynolds praises St. John as "a lazy place largely free of the jewelry-peddling, T-shirt-hawking hucksterism that pervades St. Thomas" and other cruise ship destinations. He finds much to admire in Stanley Selengut's Maho Bay Camps, though Reynolds eventually concludes that running water in each tent-cottage is "something that plenty of travelers might expect at rates of up to $115 per night."
He is fascinated by the pictographs attributed to Taino Indians along Reef Bay Trail, but suggests skipping the various sugar plantation ruins "unless you're a sugar scholar." In all, Reynolds's is a fair assessment that doesn't spare the Westin's "garish lobby" or stint on descriptions of good meals and even better scenery.
Click here to go to the L.A. Times Web site and "Seduced by St. John."
