The Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke.
When I first went to the Soggy Dollar you had two choices, you could take your dingy or you could take the Soggy Dollar test, which is, swim in, drink, swim out, repeat.
To the best of my knowledge nobody has ever drowned taking the test. Probably because, between the sun and the rum, they’re too tired to make that last swim out to the boat and crash in the first empty hammock they find instead.
Now the place is crowded, especially since they cut the access road. However, they have rooms available since they opened the Sandcastle Hotel, also on White Bay. This luxury?? hotel has two beachfront cottages, two garden cottages, and two air-conditioned rooms.
They’ve still haven’t gotten around to building a dock, so you have to swim or take your tender in if you’re anchored in White Bay. The downsides are that their rates are not cheap, but more importantly, you need to make your reservations almost a year in advance.
Readers of All At Sea Magazine voted the Soggy Dollar Bar, The Best Waterfront Beach Bar in the Caribbean in May of 2006.
In 2000 and 2001, readers of Caribbean Travel & Life voted them “The Best Beach bar in the Caribbean and in 2002 Islands Magazine’s readers chose the bar “The Number One Watering Hole in the World”
This is the house specialty:
The Original(Pusser’s) Pain Killer:
4 parts unsweetened pinapple juice
1 part orange juice
1 part cream of coconut -not coconut milk or water, and not that sweetened stuff, you can find it in the Mexican sections of most southwest grocery stores.
2 parts Pusser’s Rum -red label. –The stuff that comes in the fancy bottles is exactly the same.
Pour over ice mix well
Top with grated nutmeg –An absolute necessity
This concoction was purportedly developed by Daphne at the Soggy Dollar Bar.
