Our Story
“If you like the way the Caribbean used to be, this is your place. I will never stay elsewhere... ”
“The Inn at Tamarind Court is the heart and soul of St. John ...”
The Inn at Tamarind Court has been many things to the Virgin Islands — a school, a dancehall with record store, and “Hulda Sewer’s Guest House,” where in the ‘70s you could rent rooms for $15 a night.
The Inn has also been pummeled by its share of hurricanes — most recently by the record-setting Hurricane Irma in 2017. That storm, with wind speeds of 185 miles per hour, was the second strongest ever in the Caribbean and Atlantic basin (after Allen, which hit 190 mph in 1980). It was more than enough to blow off our main roof, and reduce the top floor of the main Inn and some of the other buildings to rubble.
With the support of the stalwart staff, who lost many of their own belongings in Irma’s wake, the Inn’s owners started to rebuild. The Inn reopened with its new teal roof in February of 2020, proud to keep filling its spot in the fabric of the St. John community.
The restaurant and bar, shown here in the foreground, reopened in the spring of 2022, where it again began serving as a respite for locals and tourists alike.
The Inn got its name more than 40 years ago from the Tamarind tree you see below. The mighty tree lords over one of our courtyards — so the “Inn at Tamarind Court” it was. Our namesake tree has also taken its share of pounding and pruning from the hurricanes (notice the newer growth). But like St. John itself, it’s still standing, strong and tall as ever.
