St maarten festivall village is on Souliga road by the university of SXM and the Salt Pickers roundabout. Roundabout is intersection of walter nisbeth road and souliga road near big govt building. A couple of streets in from front street.

It is a plaza area created for people to set up shop selling things like shirts.

It is in long walking distance to the port 1.8km but i heard on Laser 101 that buses will be used to take people from Festival Village to the ship. They have space for over 2000 they said.

They are taking pets on this boat with proper vaccine papers for dogs. Cats dont need papers.

Separately from this ship evac, Laser 101 said the us state department wants any us citizen who is declining evacuation due to not wanting to abandon pets to contact the state dept at their website to make arrangements.