I would highly recommend Grand Case Beach Club given your parameters. We've stayed there and parked our car and never felt the urge to use it again until we returned home but this was four nights at the end of a two week stay elsewhere in the island.

At GCBC you have the freedom to enjoy both of their beaches, one of which has chair service for drinks and such, the new and improved swimming pool and their lovely restaurant and bar but you also have all of the GC eateries, from the lolos tonthe high end places at your fingertips. You can easily walk or use the little jitney service that runs around GC at night as it's very reasonable and kind of fun.

You can treat this place as a full service resort and enjoy all its amenities as such, or you can treat it as a hotel and travel the island at your leisure. I truly felt it was the best of both worlds when we were there.

Personally, I don't think SXM is remotely like St. John but that's just one opinion and we only stayed on StJ once. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />