Anegada Reef Jeep and Car Rentals

Anegada Reef Jeep and Car Rentals

Anegada is the one island in the BVI where you need wheels. It is flat, coral rather than volcanic, about eleven miles long, and everything worth seeing is spread along a road network that is mostly sand. The anchorage is at Setting Point on the south shore; the beaches everyone comes for are on the north and west coasts, a good twenty minutes away. Walking it is not realistic in the heat.

Anegada Reef rents the full range — so you can pick the vehicle for the day rather than take whatever is left.

The fleet

• Mokes — open-sided, slow, and the most fun way to cross the island. Best for a couple or a small group on a dry day.
• Jeep Wrangler — the sensible choice if you want air conditioning and doors, and the one to take if the sand roads have been churned up by rain.
• SUV and Kia Soul — comfortable, sealed against the dust, good for a family with bags and beach gear.
• Safari trucks — open bench seating under a canopy, built for carrying a crew of six or more in one go.
• Mini bus — for a full charter boat’s worth of people, or an airport run.
• E-bikes — Anegada is flat enough that this genuinely works, and it is the quietest way to reach the flamingo ponds.

Where to go once you have it

• Loblolly Bay — the postcard beach, with reef snorkelling straight off the sand.
• Cow Wreck Beach — further round and usually emptier, named for the cow bones that washed up there.
• The flamingo ponds — the salt ponds in the island’s interior, with a viewing platform. Early morning or late afternoon is when the birds are active.
• The conch shell mounds — centuries of discarded shells piled in the shallows, and a genuinely strange thing to stand next to.
• Setting Point — where you will have left the boat, and where most of the restaurants are.

Good to know

• Bring your original driving licence — not a photocopy — and ask Anegada Reef what else they need when you book. The BVI has historically issued visitors a temporary local permit through the rental company; confirm with them rather than assuming, since it is their paperwork and they deal with it daily.
• Drive on the left. The roads are quiet, but they are shared with free-roaming cattle, goats and the occasional donkey, which have right of way in practice whatever the law says.
• Much of the road network is sand. It is passable in anything in the dry, but after heavy rain the soft sections are where a Moke will struggle and a Jeep will not.
• Fuel is limited on Anegada — take the vehicle back with what you were given, and do not plan on topping up late in the day.
• Contact: 284-441-0799, by phone or WhatsApp. Alternative number 284-499-4177. Online booking at anegadareefrentals.com.