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Cheap Snorkeling in St. Maarten

June 19, 2014 By Anne Keery 4 Comments

Cheap Snorkeling in St. Maarten

Photo Credit: By tony_donnelly via flickr and Creative Commons

If you are looking to find cheap snorkeling in St. Maarten, the first thing you should consider is to bring your own gear with you. All of the beaches are public, so if you can find your way onto a beach, you can go snorkeling, for free! That said, not all of us travel with our own gear, and rates can get rather exorbitant quite quickly. At Orient Beach, one rental outfit was charging $25 per hour for a snorkel setup.

Enter Divi Little Bay, next to Fort Amersterdam on the Dutch side of Sint Maarten. To get there, drive toward Fort Amsterdam, which is the point just to the south end of Philipsburgh. Park just before the security hut for Divi Little Bay Resort, in the parking spots along the sea wall. From there, you can walk down through the resort to the beach. [Read more…]

Filed Under: International, North and Central America, Travel Tips Tagged With: family, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, SMX, snorkeling, St. Maarten

How to Drink for Free in Philipsburg

May 27, 2014 By Anne Keery 2 Comments

How to Drink for Free in Philipsburg

Photo Credit: (By Ernst Vikne (Diamond ring) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

Jewelry.

Now you’re thinking, “What? I thought we were talking about how to drink for free?!” Don’t worry, we are doing just that, but it all starts with jewelry, or jewelry stores, to be more specific.

Philipsburg is the capital of the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin, known as Sint Maarten, or just by the airport code SXM. It is home to a cruise ship terminal that sees five to seven cruise ships per day during the high season, with most boats holding 4000-6000 passengers plus an additional 2000+ person crew. That means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 people disembark on any given day, and competition for their business becomes fierce. [Read more…]

Filed Under: North and Central America Tagged With: Caribbean, Philipsburg, shopping, Sint Maarten, SMX, St. Maarten

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