For a more experienced cruiser, or one with a bit more time, it is a really neat thing to be able to combine a cruise with a land stay on an island, versus Miami, etc. And they are doing some air charters from Charles de Gaulle airport to SXM for the Pullmanteur (sp!!) cruises. Plus it is a much different experience to be on many islands south of SXM on an under 2000 pax ship, versus on one of the behemoths. Many of those islands really are just not set up to accept that many pax.