BVI Yacht Charter Reviews

This was our second skippered charter and while a very different experience, was really easy. From embarking to disembarking everything went very smoothly. We loved the freedom of mooring options in the BVI and also enjoyed taking advantage of the amenities at the base.

The 464 motor yacht is perfect for a family, brand new, very satisfying vacation in the BVI’s.

Boat was wonderful. Communication was seamless. Our Captain Josh and Chef Maryln were amazing, took care of everything, and so easy to be with.

Extraordinary bonding experience for the entire family on luxury catamaran in the amazing BVI environment. Exceptional skipper Paul Gaetan: expert sailor, master planner of the itinerary and activities maximizing enjoyment according to our specific wishes, involved when desired and discreet when appropriate.

The customer service is outstanding. Highlights: Check-in with the base staff; updating the reservation on the phone to add additional guests; boat briefing (Moses was phenomenal!); airport transfers were easy; website research and booking were clear and easy.

Shelly and Richard were great! Great food. Attentive service. Safe operation. Great recommendations. Was best vacation to date.

The overall experience was unique to other vacations we have taken. We enjoyed the flexibility and the ability to choose our activities.

Great boats, friendly staff, excellent marina facilities, and a general willingness to help. Most importantly, if something is/goes wrong with the boat, I have confidence that Moorings will do there best to fix the issue as quickly as possible.

Excellent selection of boats, well run operation, hotel on site

Outstanding, and friendly hospitality. Excellent booking and pre-charter experience. Impressive technical and service call support!

The service was spot on. When we asked at the dock, it happened. When we called tech support, we got answers. Same for customer service and front desk. All great. Spa was very good too. People were happy at their jobs. Boat tender was awesome too.

The overall experience was very easy from booking, check in, sailing, the provisions and the crew of Wayne and Katy were outstanding in all aspects of the trip.

Overall experience was fantastic

Boat was gorgeous, staff kind and helpful, BVI’s just perfect.

Simple,no hassle experience coupled with a great location

Efficient, helpful service and quality of charter boats and facilities.

The facility in Tortola is top notch. All the staff from restaurant servers to Dock master were friendly and knowledgeable. Taxis were waiting for us at the ferry terminal. They provided everything they said they would, no false advertising. Everything was just easy.

We’ve been traveling with The Moorings for 25 + years, and you continue to make improvements. Staff is very helpful, friendly and courteous.

I know, when chartering from the Moorings, my boat is going to be in good shape and if a problem does arise, I can call and get the support that I need.

My first time chartering a bareboat and all my expectations were exceeded. Everyone we interacted with from the Moorings BVI were extremely polite and friendly.

This was our second time with Moorings BVI and we were left wishing for more time on the boat! Captain Andy and Chef Linzi are phenomenal and made sure our trip was filled with many memories! Chef Linzi went above and beyond to make sure she knew of our needs and dietary restrictions were met with every meal on board. Captain Andy was knowledgeable and allowed time for our group to learn about sailing and life in the BVIs. We look forward to visiting again soon and highly recommend Captain Andy and Chef Linzi for your BVI adventure!

We just finished a seven day journey on Seas the Day. Captain Andy and Chef Linzi truly made the week remarkable. This was our first trip to the BVIs so we didn’t know exactly what all we wanted to see. Captain Andy is so well traveled through the area that his recommendations were detailed allowing us to pick and choose our own experiences. We always had great mooring positions, great travel arrangements at each stop, and spot on recommendations on restaurants. While on board Seas the Day we didn’t want for anything. Andy and Linzis service is first class. Linzi is a wiz in the kitchen and makes you wonder how she accomplishes each delicious meal from a ships galley. Her evening nibbles and the captain’s drink of the day are a welcome pre dinner treat. Our favorite part of each day were Captain Andy’s briefings where you learn where you are headed the next day. They are an accomplished crew that certainly allowed us to seize each day. Highly recommend Moorings and specifically Captain Andy and Chef Linzi. We can’t thank them enough for an unforgettable week!

Captain Andy and Chef Linzi provided us with a wonderful experience during our time on Seas the Day. Captain Andy’s “chart chats” were interesting and informative. Chef Linzi’s afternoon “nibbles” always hit the spot. Highly recommend booking them for your BVI Caribbean get-away.

Beautiful new boat and excellent staff. Steep learning curve for anchoring and reserving a Mooring Ball, don’t expect to grab a first come first serve mooring in the afternoon, and register and use that BoatyBall App like you are booking a concert ticket at 6:59AM. Best vacation ever, so glad we used The Moorings.

Fantastic experience one again with the Moorings, this time with Captain Any and Linzi. Simply can’t put it into words. The stunning BVI is literally everything you need but they made perfection even better!

You simply have to experience it yourself. Just trust me on this one folks!

We had a Beneteau 43 for 9 days. Boat in good condition, fully equipped and ready to go. Chart briefing was useful. Great wind 90% of the week. Fears about finding suitable moorings balls were unfounded. Our second time here.

Been coming to the Moorings for years and this year service was at its best 🙂 Did a charter in Greece last Oct they only have to look after about a dozen boats and they were on the ball but this year in Tortolla we didn’t have to wait for anybody 🙂 Job well done.

An amazing 2 week family holiday in a beautiful place on an awesome boat! All 5 of us (myself & wife, daughter, father & cousin) rated it as faultless and one of the best.
Arrival, check-in was friendly, quick and hassle free with a welcome rum punch helping! The boat was jaw-dropping, a 50 foot party palace with so much room to gather as a family, chill by yourself or relax in comfort as the scenery glided by. Loads of space, walk-in wet rooms, comfy beds, air-con, wifi that works, water maker, it had it all. The briefing was great by the super friendly Cpt Libert who was also on hand to answer any questions throughout the holiday. The boat was so easy to sail, with all the controls coming back to the helm. I was able to single-handed sail with ease. We sailed every day with consistent 10-15 knot winds and average speeds of 6/7 kts. Mooring was a breeze, picking up mooring balls, with the twin engines meaning you can control the boat so easily. We did have a few mechanical issues, but both were quickly resolved with a call to the tech team who magically appeared and fixed the problem (Big thanks to Ryan & Lushan!). Bringing the boat back was a brezze with the dockmaster helping us out and Tadak doing the post-brief to make sure everything was OK.
The BVI is such a perfect place to charter with so many cool places to explore, the beautiful scenery, friendly people and first class sailing. Get yourself booked in, you won’t regret it.

This was an epic adventure with good friends and the charter with Moorings kicked our experience off the charts! The staff are extremely well prepared, organized and friendly. They have this process down to a science. Our catamaran was clean, organized and well appointed. **The only thing that I would recommend as an improvement is having a simple “Charter Manual” on board with visuals that covers the basics like, operating the switch panel, lighting the stove, where things are located, etc. While our pre-sailing meeting covered these, it’s easy to forget those details. We will be doing this again and will be using Moorings!

This was my sixth time booking through The Moorings. It was the tenth time for my husband. The boat was beautiful and rigged correctly. The attention to detail at the marina was a big upgrade. Our luggage and groceries were carted to our boat and loaded onto it. That was a new service and we really appreciated it. The boat had plenty of supplies for us as well. The staff were ready for us on our return whereas in the past we would get to the harbor and no one would come direct us to a slip. So this trip was probably our best trip ever. Our entire group was impressed. Thank you so much!

My husband and I booked our first trip to the BVI’s and were not disappointed. I admit I had some apprehensions about who our captain would be as we would be with them for an entire week. Gilson, or ‘Gilly’ was just fantastic. He made our journey an adventure we will always remember. Gilly planned the perfect trip based on our friends recommendations as well as his own knowledge of the Islands. My husband was well invested in learning all he could about sailing and Gilly proved to be not just a great teacher, but a fellow explorer and now a friend. We will be back, but only if Gilson is our captain. We had a perfect trip full of lifetime memories.

What a fantastic holiday. We traveled from Eastern Canada to the BVIs on Jan 3, 2026. Of course winter travel in Canada is never easy, so of course we had lots of delays. We did arrive in Tortola the night before our sailing, and paid the little extra to spend the night on the boat. We had a week on the sea, and visited (and moored) in several places, including (in order): Cooper Island, Leverick Bay, Scrub Island, Jost Van Dyke, Cruz Bay (USVIs), Norman Island, and then back to Road Town in Tortola. We had a 42 foot Catamaran. The weather was great, the sailing was good (some days there is not a lot of wind in the BVIs in January), the moorings were OK, and the restaurants were all very good. Make sure to book you Boaty Buoy at exactly 7:00 AM, as they go within seconds, and a First-come, First-serve buoy is not always available. You then have to drop anchor which is not always easy in a sandy bottom bay. The Mooring’s is a fantastic place to rent your boat. Everything is well-laid out, and has everything you need, from supplies, shower facilities, bar service, a pool, and so on. I really recommend Jot Van Dyke, and no visit is complete without going to Foxy’s….a great experience, and the food was excellent. We did make the trek to Cruz Bay in the USVI’s, but we probably should not have bothered, with all of the customs clearing (too much time spent doing this while on holidays). I highly recommend sailing around the BVI’s, and there is no better place to rent your Cat than at The Moornings…!!!

Wonderful vacation. The 50′ sailing cat was comfortable and easy to manipulate throughout all the island stops. The water is beautiful; the local culture was very welcoming and the folks at The Moorings were great. It is a uniquely beautiful part of the world and one that takes most of the stress out of your life. Quick hint: From the first minute you arrive, it is Island Time. You cannot change it, you can not talk your way thru it, you just have to relax and enjoy the pace and chill.

This is our 3rd year with the Moorings, but our first with Andy & Linzi. Everything was top notch: food, fun, service, suggestions for the course & seeing the BVI from a different perspective and most importantly safety! We look forward to next January and a repeat trip with this amazing crew!!!!

We recently returned from a week aboard Seas The Day with Andy and Linzi. Our trip exceeded our expectations (save for the lack of wind – mother nature did not get the message)! Andy and Linzi are an amazing team. They keep a “ship shape” clean boat, serve fresh and beautifully prepared food, provided a great itinerary, and know how to joke around …. all with the utmost safety. They have a great relationship with many of the locals and made sure we explored places others may miss. In addition, they understood the best timing to explore places to avoid crowds. Linzi even went above and beyond, baking a cake for our birthday “boy”. We 100% recommend Andy and Linzi!
Carolyn and Ed

We hired a captain for part of our 8 day sail in the BVI’s with Sunsail. Gilson was awesome! He was a great teacher and communicated everything to our crew on all boating essentials, safety, operation of the boat, galley/water, control panel, etc. he was very thorough and when sailing explained why we were making a maneuver and what the outcome would be. He is very experienced, friendly and easy to have on board. It was great having him on board and would highly recommend him for anyone considering a charter in the BVI’s with either Moorings or Sunsail. We’ll definitely call on him in the future.

We had a great trip to BVI’s with captain Francesco and Chef Nika.
Beautiful islands with great friends and great food. F and N were very knowledgeable and shared tons of information about each island we visited. They certainly made it a memorable week.

Sailed with Skipper Laura over New Years. It was an amazing trip. She was extremely competent and had great suggestions for the Itinerary as we went along the trip. We had a great time and I definitely recommend sailing with Moorings and with Skipper Laura.

I don’t normally write reviews but this trip was one worth noting. Our family had the opportunity to sail with The Moorings and Captain Laura Bello this past week. From our first introduction she was the ultimate professional. Helping us with our gear, introducing us to the boat and what we needed to know, and more than willing to let us learn from her experience. We discussed our intended travel route and she let us know which locations were better than others. Captain Laura allowed us to be as lazy or involved as we wanted to be. She even gave us the ability to sleep in as she woke early to secure our mooring balls for the day (they fill up fast). She had the best advice and told some great stories covering her time on the water. We took her out for dinner on our last night as we felt like family. I truly believe she spearheaded our once in a lifetime experience.

We just completed our second bareboat charter with The Moorings. Just as the first, booking, check in, chart briefing and departure was seamless. The staff at Moorings base in Tortola were friendly and very accommodating. There were eight of us on a 534PC. The boat was a little older than our first charter and showed a bit of wear although mechanically the boat was fine. We did have an issue with the generator. We contacted Tech Support and amazingly they had repair crew on site within 30 minutes to make the necessary repairs. We love the BVI and the islands have so much to offer…something for everybody. We have already booked out next charter with Moorings for December 2026.