Actually the royal palms MFs were higher than flamingos in years past.

Yet I think their AMF was the same as Flamingo? AND their AMF is by far the highest on SXM..

I agree with Carol and GeorgiaKay. If I was to buy time share my choice would be LaVista. We actually came very close once.

We never saw the lot closing. We stayed til 530+ several days after perch ceased ops and all umbrellas taken and it was still open.

Not sure what qualifies as not a heck of a lot. But Royal Palm 'owners' had to pay last year also.

For something that has been going on for a year how could the Nature Foundation just discovered this as reported.
"Last week we were alerted that there was possible illegal construction happening at the area of Simpson Bay Beach popularly known as Kim Sha at the location of the construction site of Roxxy Beach Bar", says the St Maarten Nature Foundation
Key word is "possible" illegal construction.

Our Nature Foundation does not publish fake news.

I hope so. We met several employees who are living on island and invited us to stop by when open.

Hello captain ... SXM has something like 34 or 36 beaches and I would say I've been to maybe half of them. But, this is a really hard question to answer because conditions can change from one-day-to-another on island beaches such as these. But, on average the beaches that always seemed to generate stronger waves on a more consistent basis were Orient, Dawn, Mullet, Cupecoy, Maho, and I suppose Simpson Bay (but, I have seen Simpson calm from time-to-time). The calmer beaches with less wave action other than Le Galion definitely were Great Bay Beach and Little Bay Beach near Philipsburg. Anse Marcel, Grand Case, Happy Bay and Friar's Bay on French St. Martin are probably somewhere in between. These are just my experiences.

Here's a website that might help. You can at least read the brief write-ups about each beach: stmartinisland.org. This website comes up if you do a Google search for "the beaches of St. Martin." One nice thing about St. Martin is that if you have a rental car and conditions at one beach are not ideal, just hop back in and the next beach is just 10 minutes away!

Thats not it but thank you. It was from 2-3 Sundays ago.

The problem with a second dinghy is it can’t be hoisted. Most cats now have decent hoist systems and dinghies don’t seem to have as robust tow lines and attachment points. The tow lines lately also are not long enough. I would stick with one and make a second trip.