Progress continues with the rebuilding of Soper’s Hole Wharf & Marina in West End on Tortola. As you can see by the photo, the new, widened boardwalk is well underway. This colorful, quaint anchorage is coming back to life and is looking like it will be better than ever.
A few of the latest happenings at Soper’s Hole include the addition of Omar’s Oceanfront Fusion Restaurant. Omar’s Fusion has already become a very popular lunch and dinner venue due to their great service and excellent food. In addition, Omar’s other restaurant, Omar’s Cafe is getting a major facelift with extensive repairs being made to the building’s exterior.
Word has it that wharf tenants are keen to move back into their stores and preparations are now being made for the moves. It won’t be long before visitors and locals can once again enjoy one of the BVI’s most popular destinations.
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter
