The territory's only full-service villa resort. The 400-yard private beach, the two-pool layout, and the Westin Family Kids Club give the family-holiday brief its strongest single answer on St John, and the only one with a tennis programme.
The territory's only full-service villa resort. The 400-yard private beach, the two-pool layout, and the Westin Family Kids Club give the family-holiday brief its strongest single answer on St John, and the only one with a tennis programme.
The Westin St. John Resort Villas occupies 47 acres along Great Cruz Bay on St John's southwest coast, two miles from the Cruz Bay ferry terminal and the National Park entrance. The property opened in 1985 as the Hyatt Regency St John and reopened as a Westin in 2002; in 2014 the operating model converted to Marriott Vacation Club ownership while continuing to operate the resort as a hotel under the Westin flag. The full inventory of 252 units is therefore a villa-rental product rather than a conventional hotel, every unit comes with a full kitchen, washer-dryer, and balcony or terrace, and runs from studios through three-bedroom townhouses.
The accommodation footprint is the resort's central advantage. Resort Studios at the entry level (around 600 square feet) include a full kitchenette, dining area, and lanai. One-Bedroom Villas (around 950 square feet) add a separate living room and a full kitchen. Two-Bedroom Villas (around 1,500 square feet) and Three-Bedroom Townhouses (up to 2,850 square feet) accommodate two to eight adults, the only multi-bedroom inventory of its kind in the USVI and the reason multi-generational families consistently default to the property. Every unit has been refreshed through the 2020-2024 renovation cycle, with the next phase scheduled August through November 2026.
The food and beverage and amenity programme is fuller than the villa format usually implies. Three onsite restaurants run the daily programme: Lemongrass Restaurant & Bar (Caribbean and American, indoor-outdoor seating over Great Cruz Bay), Snorkels Bar & Grill (poolside burgers, salads, frozen drinks), and The Marketplace at Great Cruz Bay (Starbucks, deli, provisions for in-villa cooking). Two outdoor pools, including a quarter-acre main pool with palm-tree islands, anchor the central courtyard. Four lighted tennis courts, a fitness centre with sauna, a watersports concession on the beach, and the Westin Family Kids Club round out the programme. The private 400-yard white-sand beach is the resort's headline feature.
For families travelling to the US Virgin Islands the Westin is the obvious base, the only resort that combines villa-format kitchens with full-service amenities and a tennis programme. Honeymoons trade some intimacy for the beach, the kitchen, and the option of moving up to a one-bedroom villa with a separate living room. Wellness travellers get the pool, the sauna, the fitness centre, and a coastline that runs three miles uninterrupted toward Hawksnest. The property scheduled a substantial refurbishment for August, November 2026 that will refresh the public spaces and the inventory ahead of the 2027 season.
The Westin is the US Virgin Islands' default family-holiday answer. Two- and three-bedroom villas with full kitchens, washer-dryers, separate living rooms, and balconies handle the multi-generational variant of the brief better than any other property in the territory. The Westin Family Kids Club, two pools, four tennis courts, watersports concession, and the private 400-yard beach mean parents and children can run different programmes without leaving the resort.
For honeymoons that want a full-service resort with a private beach and a substantial restaurant programme, not the small-property version of the brief, the Westin is the territory's strongest answer. A one-bedroom villa gives a separate living room and the kind of kitchen that makes a longer stay easy; the 400-yard beach and the lower-density edges of the property keep the experience private.
The 47-acre footprint, the two pools, the lighted tennis courts, the fitness centre with sauna, and the coastline access toward Hawksnest and Trunk Bay make the Westin a credible wellness base. The villa kitchens are an underrated feature, they make the clean-eating part of the brief practically straightforward in a way that conventional hotel rooms cannot.
300A Chocolate Hole
Great Cruz Bay, Cruz Bay
St John, USVI 00830
Two miles from Cruz Bay ferry terminal; 47-acre property with private 400-yard beach
252 villas across 47 acres
Resort Studios from $499/night
One-Bedroom Villas from $749/night
Two-Bedroom Villas from $1,150/night
Three-Bedroom Townhouses from $1,800/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
Opened 1985 (Hyatt); rebranded Westin 2002; Marriott Vacation Club from 2014; resort refurbishment scheduled August, November 2026
Lemongrass Restaurant & Bar (Caribbean-American)
Snorkels Bar & Grill (poolside)
The Marketplace (Starbucks, deli, provisions)
Two outdoor pools, four lighted tennis courts
Westin Family Kids Club
Private 400-yard white-sand beach
Free WiFi throughout property
From $499/night. St John's December, April high-season weeks book six to nine months ahead; the hurricane-window shoulder (mid-November and late-April) is the value window for the same inventory.
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