VI Link is the US Virgin Islands' first single source for food, events, adventures, and pop-ups. Free to use. Free to list. Made by someone who actually lives here.
Legislative assistant by day. Home baker, mom of two (with a third on the way), and the woman behind Cultured Delights. Lifelong Crucian who got tired of telling tourists where to actually go.
Cruise port maps and a TripAdvisor page from 2019. The restaurant they're looking for closed. The pop-up they walked past last Saturday isn't listed anywhere.
Paté Festival, Mango Melee, Kidsville, Jump Up. Word-of-mouth and Facebook still do most of the work. Half the island finds out the day after.
Home bakers, food trucks, weekend markets, mobile artists. No Google Business profile. No website. No way for new customers to find them unless they happen to walk by.
I work for a senator during the day. At night I bake cakes. On weekends I run pop-ups, plan festivals, and answer the same questions from tourists at Christiansted Square over and over: where do locals actually eat? what's happening this weekend? is that thing still open?
Every time someone asked, I'd rattle off three places, a Saturday market, and a phone number from memory. Every time, I'd think: this should already exist.
There are tourism websites. There are Facebook groups. There's a hundred Instagram accounts. There's no single place that just tells you what's open, what's good, and what's happening today.
So I started building one.
VI Link is what I wish I'd had when I was running my first festival booth. It's what I wish a tourist could pull up on the plane. It's what I wish the home bakers in my DMs could send a customer to instead of trying to explain where they'll be Saturday.
It's also a recognition that the people making the culture here, the bakers, the rum-cake makers, the snorkel guides, the moko jumbie troupes, the lemonade vendors at carnival, are the same people who can't get on the front page of anything. They don't have marketing budgets. They have hands full of dough and a baby on their hip.
This is for them. And for the tourist who deserves more than a cruise-port flyer. And for the locals who've been waiting for the territory to feel like it's actually connected.
— Jen Avila, St. Croix
Built into how every page works, every listing is reviewed, every email goes out.
If it's not actually from or rooted in the USVI, it doesn't belong here. We promote islanders, not chains.
No vendor pays to exist. Ever. The basic listing stays free even when we add paid tiers down the road.
Every listing is reviewed before it's live. Every hours field gets a "last verified" date. Stale data is the enemy.
We don't rewrite your description. We don't replace your photos. We don't repackage your culture. You stay in charge of how you show up.
And anyone planning to be.
VI Link is positioned to become the territory's central platform for tourism, hospitality, and cultural promotion. We're open to thoughtful partnerships that align with our mission, not against it.
Start a Conversation →Co-promotion, official digital guide partnerships, and shared visitor data.
In-room guides, concierge integration, exclusive guest experiences.
Festival sponsorships, newsletter takeovers, official digital partners.
Pre-arrival guides, port-day pop-up alerts, authentic local recommendations.
Internships, cultural archives, event co-hosting, student programs.
Whether you're a tourist planning a trip, a vendor ready to be found, or a partner ready to build, this is where it starts.