Hotel Privilege St. Maarten/St. Martin

Arrived in sunshine and moored opposite the Oasis of the Sea. This cruise ship is on its maiden voyage and is massive – it carries 6500 passengers and 3000 crew! We took a taxi with three other women from the boat to Copuyec Beach. After travelling fro ages through the eternal St Maarten traffic jam we reached a beach with no loungers, shades, snack bar or anything. It was totally remote and not fit for our purpose ...

... a community feeling to it, especially because we visited in the low season, hurricane season. The steets were very quite, many shops were closed and not many tourists were visiting the island overnight.

We stayed for 2 nights and almost didn't made it back to St. Maarten because a hurricane was passing close by and the seas were too high for boats to run. So we ended up taking a plane.

... We still enjoyed the sand and surf. And more importantly, we got to share these experiences with our baby. Not bad for having gone to the Caribbean within his first year of life. We braved as first-time parents, flying by ourselves, to an international destination, and that made us feel pretty good. So for our last day on the island, we drove around, exploring both the French and Dutch side ...

Most of our days were spent visiting the French side of the island. We spent a long and lazy afternoon at Le Galion Beach so our little one could play in some shallow water. It’s a perfect beach for families with small kids or infants due to the calm waters. In fact, even in the shallowest of waters we saw some fish ...

... was incredibly sweet to our young one too and took time to share with us her family stories. Maybe everyone was a little warmer because we had a baby with us, or it was low season, but either way, it made for a comfortable stay.

The view from our balcony was beautiful. We overlooked the pool, can see the ocean, and hear the waves. The only thing I thought the Westin could have done to improve the ambiance was not to have the ...

The day began lazy and continued as the only agenda to be had was to tour the new buildings of the resort and make sure that the sand on the beach was still white! This however, had nothing to do with the greatest anticipation of the day… dinner at the French restaurant, La Frѐgate. Our anticipation got to all of us and we travelled the road to the restaurant only to find that we were :45 min. early. So off ...

... Cindy and Becky all hit mini-jackpots within the hour they were there and left considerably ahead ($100 total).

Riding the wave of good cheer the group made their way for sumptuous desserts and cappacino's at the beach bar - delicious!!! After a moonlit walk on the beach we ended the night dancing, singing and having a great time at Beau Beau's where Jeff even was spotted cutting a rug....a perfect ending to a perfect day.

... of the crew on the boats and followed our captains commands as we did our assigned tasks. My wife and myself had moderate tasks to perform, but others had more difficult tasks. We were assigned our crew positions because we are in our 50's we assumed. It worked for us.

We started our race with the other boats and our boat was in 3rd-place most of the time. With the final leg of the race approaching, we were still in 3rd-place. Our captain called for a strategic and bold ...

... was filmed. We led our horses into the water and instantaneously several of the horses proceeded to poop in the water. I laughed my head off while Melissa freaked out as the waves carried the poop closer and closer to her. By the time we exited the water, Scott's khaki shorts were covered with brown horse poop stains. It was a riot! We went back to the stables, I bid Sancho "adios" (I was ...

... y partes de la isla tenian un caracteristico olor a materia organica en descomposicion. Bah, olor a St. Marteen le deciamos. Como puede ser q la gente hable maravillas del caribe cuando tiene este nauseabundo olor? Paso rapido igual, pero el momento inicial fue duro.
St Marteen esta dividida en la parte holandesa y la francesa. Nosotros parabamos en la francesa, mucho mas chick y sin casinos. Ademas del hotel, tengo la vivida imagen de una de las playas mas hermosas de ...