US Virgin Islands, United States

Lovango Resort & Beach Club

Price per night from$1,119.38

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD1,119.38), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Swish Family Robinson

Setting

Reef-ringed cay

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Cast away on your own terms at Lovango Resort & Beach Club, a private-island stay in the US Virgin Islands. You’ll feel fully off-grid on the cay’s secluded north side, where luxury treehouses and villas gaze out over quiet waters criss-crossed by coral reefs. Down at the beach club, though, rum-laced tipples and life-changing lobster schnitzel beckon. Plus, jaunts to livelier St John are a doddle – so you can hold off on befriending a volleyball.

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A rum punch (or soft drink) each on arrival

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

31, including 15 suites.

Check–Out

10am. Check-in is at 4pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a daily buffet breakfast, with Continental and cooked options to coax you from under the covers.

Also

One Treehouse has been adapted to ADA standards (with grab bars, lowered counters and a roll-in shower), and there's an ADA-standard restroom at the beach club, Sandpit and Waterfront Restaurant. The resort's pathways are also wheelchair-friendly, but please note that that Lovango’s steep hillside and the boat travel required to reach the island may mean the resort’s inaccessible for you if you have limited mobility.

Hotel closed

Lovango will reopen on 17 December 2024 and close on 18 July 2025.

At the hotel

Beach club, ferry service to St John and St Thomas, children's activity center, hiking trails, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: iPad, air-conditioning, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, hairdryer, iron, bathrobes and Malin + Goetz bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Opt for an Ocean View Luxury Treehouse if a private terrace amid the forest canopy sounds tempting. For larger groups, the Three-Bedroom Villa will afford the whole gang personal space – there are three separate pavilions, each with their own patio.

Poolside

The beach club has a 70-foot saltwater infinity pool, with sea views worth going wrinkly-fingered for. Between paddles, spend the day mainlining margaritas and ceviche on a sunlounger, or book a cabana to cuddle up behind closed curtains.

Spa

There’s no spa, but staff can set up in-room massages with local therapists, and yoga sessions take place on Crescent Beach’s quiet shore.

Packing tips

Lovango looks out over Congo Cay, home to a thriving bird sanctuary, so bring binoculars for a spot of tropical twitching.

Also

Swing by the open-air jungle gym for some beachfront sweat-breaking, either solo or in an instructor-led fitness class.

Children

Welcome. There’s a good choice of organised activities, family-friendly villas and treehouses, and free pack ’n’ plays can be added on request.

Best for

All ages are welcome, but babies aren’t especially catered for. Kids old enough to swim, snorkel and set sail will get the greatest kick out of their castaway stay.

Recommended rooms

Villas and Treehouses have multiple extra bed options, including trundle beds and air mattresses, that can be added on request.

Activities

When they’re not at the beach or on mermaid-worthy marine adventures, little Smiths will be kept busy with games and crafts at the children’s activity centre.

Swimming pool

The beach club’s pool is child-friendly, but there’s no lifeguard, so tots will need close supervision.

Sustainability efforts

Lovango has teamed up with the the University of the Virgin Islands to restore and protect the island’s coral reefs. The resort also uses solar panels, and crushes glass waste to recycle as cement.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

For a front-row sunset seat, shotgun a spot on the Waterfront Restaurant’s terrace.

Dress Code

Cape Cod comes to the Caribbean.

Hotel restaurant

At the Waterside Restaurant, chef Kyle McKnight has crafted a range of Caribbean-inspired dishes, packed with Caribbean seafood and produce picked from the kitchen garden. It takes a lot to stand out on a menu so stacked with heart-stealing dishes, but the lobster schnitzel is love-of-your-life material. Swing by on Wednesday and Saturday nights, and your dinner will be soundtracked by live performances from local musicians.

The Sandpit is a casual, counter-service spot by the beach club. Wood-fired pizzas, taco bowls, salads and seafood platters are worth taking a break from the beach club for, but if you’d rather stay horizontal, dishes can be delivered straight to your sunlounger.

Days start with soaring sea views out on the Treetops terrace. Fill your plate filled with fresh pastries, frittata and tropical fruit, then pick between a footsie-tempting table for two, or (ideal for the still bleary-eyed) a squishy sofa.

Hotel bar

Cap off a hard day’s sun-basking with a shift at the Sand Bar, diligently working your way through the list of fruit-forward specialty cocktails – we’d start with the watermelon basil margarita.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 8.30am–10am at the Treetops. The Sandpit dishes lunch daily from 11am–4.45pm, and dinner on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 5pm–9pm. The Waterfront Restaurant serves dinner from 5pm–9pm. The Sand Bar pours from 11am–9pm.

Room service

During restaurant hours, anything you fancy from the Sandpit or Waterfront Diner menus can be delivered to your door.

Location

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Address
Lovango Resort & Beach Club
Lovango Cay 1
Saint John
00830
Virgin Islands, U.S.

You’ll find Lovango Resort & Beach Club on a reef-ringed private island in the US Virgin Islands, a short boat trip from both St John and St Thomas.

Planes

Direct flights touch down at St Thomas’ Cyril E King Airport from US hubs including New York JFK, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami. The resort can arrange private transfers (from $135 for up to four guests, one way) from the airport to Red Hook, where you’ll hop on the resort ferry to Lovango.

Automobiles

You won’t need wheels — there’s no call for a car on the island, and Cruz Bay in St John is a sea-salty-stroll sort of a town.

Other

Limber up your sea legs — the resort runs free ferries throughout the day to the USVI’s main islands of St John and St Thomas, so you can make the 10-minute pootle across whenever the whim takes you. You're also welcome to bring your own boat, just let the hotel know in advance as space is limited and you'll have to pay a mooring fee.

Worth getting out of bed for

When you fancy a break from the beach club buzz, Crescent Beach on the island’s north side is a secluded stretch of shingle and white sand, with coral reefs that make it a prime snorkeling spot. Follow the hiking trails to the island’s summit for horizon-spanning views across the ocean to neighboring cays. St John, with its boho boutiques and grid-worthy National Park beaches, is in easy reach – either hop on the resort’s ferry, or charter a boat to explore the coastline. Lovango also runs catamaran trips to Honeymoon Beach – not just for newlyweds, although after a loved-up stroll along those sugary sands, don’t be surprised if someone ends up down on one knee.

Local restaurants

The resort’s ferry makes dining out in St John’s Cruz Bay a breeze. At the Terrace, French-accented fine dining is served alongside sparkling waterfront views. The Longboard is a cheery, clapboard-clad restaurant and bar, where the menu of small plates, poke bowls and ceviche makes moreish use of locally caught seafood and Caribbean spices.

Local bars

For a chilled out evening in Cruz Bay, swing by the Beach Bar, a toes-in-the-sand spot with live tunes from local artists. If you’re after island-spun delicacies, this is the place – the milkshake-like bushwhacker, invented in nearby St Thomas, combines creme de cacao, rum and cream in a concoction that’s devilishly drinkable.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this private-island resort in the Caribbean and unpacked their bikinis and boat shoes, a full account of their ocean-lapped break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Lovango Resort & Beach Club in the US Virgin Islands…

The castaway lifestyle comes via Nantucket at Lovango Resort & Beach Club. Snorkeling coral reefs or spotting sea turtles off the private island’s secluded northern shore, you’d swear the scene couldn’t be more Caribbean. But spend a day at the beach club and you’ll start to see the signs of the Snider family’s New England hotelier nous — in the neatly linen-draped cabanas, the lobster-worshipping cuisine, and the main street lined with clapboard boutiques. 

The group’s decades’ worth of experience pays off in other ways, too: concierge staff check in at breakfast each morning, so if you feel like a spontaneous boat charter (or cancelling all existing plans at the first sight of a sunlounger), consider it done. And all-day ferries to nearby St John and St Thomas mean that though you’re a million miles from the real world, you’re never marooned…unless you want to be of course, in which case, curl up on your palm-shaded private deck and keep watch over the Caribbean – your Crusoe era awaits.

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Price per night from $1,119.38