The beautiful and largely undisturbed BVI island of Jost Van Dyke is home to gorgeous beaches, excellent anchorages, undisturbed wilderness and... two of the most famous beach bar/restaurants in the world - Foxy's and the Soggy Dollar Bar. We highly recommend a stop there on your next Charter in the British Virgin Islands!

Foxy's Bar and Restaurant

Foxy's has achieved world renown far beyond its bohemian appearance and "middle of nowhere" location.

Foxy's was founded by the irrepressable and larger than life Philicianno Callwood. "Foxy", is famous for strumming his guitar and singing humorous songs every afternoon, and ensuring that everyone has a great time if they arrive at his establishment. Don't worry if its his day off, he's also created a lifesize model of himself, the "Epoxy Foxy" to watch over you even when he's not there. Foxy's was the first beach bar on Jost Van Dyke, started as a place near the church to provide refreshments for the harvest celebration. Two years later, he moved to his current location.

Foxy's Restaurant has seating for over 300 people on bench seats, and serves a BBQ menu that features Chicken, Ribs, and Mahi-Mahi. The Bar opens at 9:30 am and serves many unique drinks mixed with his own Rum, and beers from a local microbrewery.

Foxy's is perhaps best known for the spectacular New Year's Eve party, which he calls "Old Years Night". Literally hundreds of yachts lash themselves together outside Foxy's on New Years eve, and make their way to Foxy's for the evening. This celebration rivals Times Square as "the place to be", with an unfettered joyous party atmosphere. If you're going to partake, we highly recommend that you chain and lock your dinghy - as the main morning-after spectator sport is watching hung over sailors trying to locate their lost dinghy, all of which look nearly identical, and many of which are "borrowed" in return for a finder's fee.

Soggy Dollar Bar

Located in pristine White Bay on Jost Van Dyke, Soggy Dollar Bar is known for inventing the "Painkiller", and has become a landmark BVI destination - who can resist the perfect beach, and one of the greatest beach bars?

The anchorage is easy to access, and once your anchor drops you are just a short swim away from perfection, no need to worry about your money getting wet, they are used to "soggy" bills - in fact there's a clothes line for drying them out!

The Soggy Dollar Bar draws people from all surrounding islands, and can be quite the hot spot on the weekends, offering live music, great food, (try the flying fish sandwich!) and of course delicious cocktails. Definitely try one or two of the Raspberry Therapy, and Nilla Vanilla which are the other house favorites worth mentioning.

The recipe for the Painkiller, developed by Daphne Henderson (the owner of the Soggy Dollar) and commercialised by Charles Tobias (the founder of Pussers, on Tortola) is believed to be four parts pineapple, one part cream of coconut and one part orange juice - adding Rum (Pussers, of course) as you see fit. But instead of mixing this on your boat, we recommend you try the original while relaxing in a hammock at the Soggy Dollar!

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Foxy's Bar and Restaurant

The view of Foxy's from the water.

The ramshackle beach bar that is Foxy's - considerably quieter during the day than at night

A close up of some of the paraphenalia left behind by Foxy's visitors worldwide. If you look closely, you can see Sharon and Eryn of the Boatbookings.com Caribbean Team "researching" new boats and itineraries.

The Soggy Dollar Bar

The view of the Soggy Dollar Bar from the water.

The Soggy Dollar Mooring area, just swim in - dinghys are for wimps! They accept "Soggy Dollar" Bills!

Thanks to Sharon and Eryn of the Boatbookings.com staff for the Photos