Traveling to St. Croix with a baby requires some extra preparation and packing. Centerline Car Rentals hopes to take some of the stress from family travel by offering car seats and booster seats, ensuring your little one’s safety and comfort. We offer a variety of rental options to accommodate families of all sizes and our modern vehicles have the latest in safety standards.
To add a car seat or booster seat to your rental car reservation, simply select what you need under “Choose Extras” on our online reservation form. We recently added the option to add up to four car or booster seats to your reservation.
In addition to Centerline offering car seats and booster seats, we’d like to introduce you to our friend Ruth, Quality Provider on St. Croix and St. Thomas for BabyQuip.
Baby Quip
BabyQuip is a baby gear rental service that provides clean, safe, and insured baby equipment to families traveling or hosting young children. Operating in over 1,500 cities across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand, BabyQuip services are now available on St. Croix and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, through Ruth. Families traveling with babies and toddlers can find cribs, pack and plays, strollers, high chairs, beach gear, toys, games, and more available for rent. Gear is delivered to your accommodation, making travel with your baby so much easier!
In the past when traveling with her young children, Ruth found it much easier and less time consuming to rent baby gear than to travel with it. Renting made her family vacations so much easier and enjoyable. In 2023, after seeing how many families travel to St. Croix and St. Thomas with babies and young children, Ruth started her baby gear rental business.
No need to lug bulky gear and pay for additional baggage to St. Croix. Focus on enjoying our beautiful beaches and scenic drives with your family!
U.S. Virgin Islands Occupant Protection Requirements
According to the Virgin Islands Office of Highway Safety Occupant Protection web page, car safety restraints are required for all occupants – front seat and back, old and young.
- Infants – Passengers up to one year of age or at least 20 lbs. must be rear facing and placed in the outboard rear or center rear position of the motor vehicle;
- Toddlers – Passengers one to five years of age and at least 40 lbs. shall use a child restraint system that meets the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. 571.243;
- Children – Booster Seats must be used with children who have outgrown a forward-facing child car seat based on manufacturers’ specifications, or for children between 40-80 lbs. less than 8 years of age and less than 4 ft. 9 in. tall