If you decide to take the children to the zip lines in St peter's area, there's a restaurant on the property that has a children's menu. Think the name is Enold's Even if you don't take the tram to the top, there's a nice museum there and a gift shop with some reasonable items. The grounds are very nice.

The zip line at Loterie farm area has a restaurant too. They have walking trails as well.

Don’t know about you but what exactly is the fascination of SXM. For us, it’s a combination of resting, swimming, enjoying the place you are at and then discovering old and new places to eat and the excitement of doing so and meeting old and new friends. But this surely could apply to anywhere you visit often. Somehow though it doesn’t with SXM. It has a draw, but what is this magnetic draw you ask. It’s not the prettiest, has political problems, Beaches aren’t like Anguilla. More crime than I seem to recall in the 80’s. Etc, etc. Or are we running out of time on our trips, not being able to see and do all we want and therefore telling ourselves that we have to go back again and again to continue this everlasting pleasure?
Or is it that over the years we have been elsewhere and come to the conclusion that this place has it all so why go elsewhere? Dutch, French unique on one Island, with a choice of French, Dutch, Caribbean, Indian, Italian, American foods in Restaurants and Supermarkets. Throw in some Middle Eastern foods as well!! And Casinos, plenty of them for those interested. And we put up with at times crazy traffic and hideous road!
Reading this as I write, seems almost to good to be true. I mean we have Bermuda, upmarket Caymans, Antigua, Barbados, all very nice, all very boring. Well that’s not totally true, but you know what I mean.
I think it’s a combination of many things that draw us in and yet the potential that SXM has even after Irma is so compelling if only both Governments truly realised this. But would we want more intense development?
Not really, just smarten areas up, give retailers/restauranteurs more of a chance to conduct business, make sure the time shares/hotels that were hit bad are completed and allow us to run out of time for many years to come, preferably twice a year!
Rambling thoughts.....will shut up now..less than 3 and a half months to go for out third trip this year. Greedy I know, but ran out of time on the first two!