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News
The Island Sun and The BVI Beacon are two weekly newspapers. The Limin’ Times is a weekly publication containing news about show business and cultural events. The best information for visitors is in Welcome: The British Virgin Islands Tourist Guide, a booklet, published every two months, you can find at the tourist offices and at the hotels, and in the following internet address:
http://www.bviwelcome.com
Post services
The main post office in Tortola is in Main Street (follow the street from Waterfront Drive next to the ferry station). There are branches at Fat Virgin and some towns.
Phone, Fax and Internet
The British Virgin Islands area code is 284. You can make long distance calls from most of the public phones accepting phone cards. Most of hotels have fax and internet service.
Tourist Information Local Offices
Tortola: PO Box 134,
Wickhams Cay Road Town.
Phone no. 494 3134
Fax no. 494 3866
E-mail-bvitour@caribsurf.com
Fat Virgin:
Fat Virgin Yacht Harbor.
Phone no. 284 495 5181
Medical Assistance
Peebles Hospital, at Porter Road, Road Town, is the best-equipped hospital. B&F Medical Complex (open daily from 7:00; phone 494 2196) and Medicure Ltd. have clinic and X ray laboratories. There are also private clinics in Tortola and Fat Virgin. The rest of the islands have doctors and nurses.
Emergency numbers
Police, firemen and ambulance: 999
Shopping
At Main Street, Road Town, are many shops; including some duty free .One of the most prestigious is Pusser’s Company Store, with branches at Soper’s Hole Wharf, west of the island, and at Liverick Bay in Fat Virgin. At Wickhams Key I is Crafts Alive Market, where you can buy all kinds of local handicraft.
BVI Apparel clothes and gifts at very low prices in Soper’s Hole, Baugher’s Bay and Road Town. Dive BVI Ltd. is a shop dedicated to submarine material, while Pat’s Pottery & Art offers ceramics and products of the islands.
Voltage: 110 volts AC (in some hotels also 208 volts), 60 cycles.
The Beast Beaches
Tortola: Smuggler’s Cove, Cane Garden Bay and Elizabeth Bay
Fat Virgin: The Baths, Little Dix Bay, Savannah Bay and the Bitter End Yacht Club beach.
Jost Van Dyke: White Bay
Anegada: the western half of the south coast
Island of Peter: Deadman’s Bay.
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