Saba Rock Resort

Getting to Bitter End is half the story: boat, tender, taxi, shuttle – sailors have it easier. Born in the late ’60s as a jetty and a handful of cottages, it grew into one of the BVI’s top sailing destinations before Hurricane Irma erased it completely in 2017. It reopened in December 2021, rebuilt around a beach bar fashioned from a converted boat, overlooking the North Sound with views across the other Virgin Islands. Mostly well-heeled, repeat-visit yachters, but the vibe is loose and unpretentious despite the upscale surroundings. Local Leatherback Brewery drafts, a proper Painkiller, and a bar sampler menu that overdelivers. Worth the trouble.

North Sound is one of the world’s great sailing destinations, and CocoMaya matches that reputation with a design-forward aesthetic that never once feels like it is trying too hard.

Boat access only to a private island in the Sir Francis Drake Channel, Cooper Island pours craft rum cocktails good enough that the charter boat crowd treats the stop as a genuine ritual.

Sailors talk about Anegada in almost protective tones, and Potter’s is exactly why, unpretentious drinks and local lobster steps from world-class reef snorkeling.

Anegada takes its remoteness as seriously as its lobster, and the Wonky Dog adds a playful, slightly irreverent personality to a beach bar scene that otherwise runs entirely on quiet confidence.