GUIDEBOOK : Annual St. Croix House Tour

Getting there: Pan Am connects from Los Angeles to Miami to St. Croix.

Landmarks Society house tours: Feb. 6, 20, 23, 27, March 6, 13, 20 and 27. Tickets are $20, available at Whim House Plantation Museum and other points around the island.

Where to stay: The Buccaneer, old-time luxury resort on property where first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s mother once worked as a maid, expensive, (800) 223-1108; Cane Bay Reef Club, nine apartments with sea views, north shore, moderate, (809) 778-2966; Carambola Beach, very expensive, (800) 447-9503; Sprat Hall Plantation, 18th Century great house with guest rooms and efficiencies in outbuildings, on the outskirts of Frederiksted, moderate, (800) 843-3584; Pink Fancy, neat efficiencies around pool attached to a Danish townhouse in Christiansted, moderate, (800) 524-2045; Club Comanche, in Christiansted for those who want to be in the center of things and don’t mind a little noise, moderate, (800) 524-2066.

Where to eat: In Christiansted: The Captain’s Table, good seafood, steak and sushi, in courtyard setting on Company Street, (telephone locally) 773-4532; Bogart’s, great view, West Indian and Cajun food upstairs from Bogart’s Bar in the Pan Am Pavilion, 773-1559; Top Hat, Danish and international food opposite the market at 52 Company St., 773-2346; Kendrick’s, 773-9199, and the island’s newest and most elegant Cafe Madeleine, 778-7377.

In Frederiksted: Sprat Hall Plantation, serves local seafood in dining room of old great house, 772-0305.

For more information: St. Croix Landmarks Society, Box 2855, Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands 00841, (809) 772-0598; U.S. Virgin Islands Division of Tourism, 3460 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 412, Los Angeles 90010 (213) 739-0138.