Why Jost Van Dyke Is the Ultimate Caribbean Beach Bar Island

You step off the boat and your toes are in the sand in seconds. Music is floating out of the bar. Someone hands you a Painkiller. And just like that, you’ve arrived. This not a beach bar. This is the beach bar. This is White Bay. This is Jost Van Dyke. In the pantheon of Caribbean beach towns, no place captures the barefoot, rum-soaked, sandy-footed joy of island life quite like Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. This tiny island — just three square miles — packs more punch than destinations ten times its size. It’s where legendary beach bars were born, where the music plays late,