As Tom said, most repeat visitors have their favorite rental agencies so I won’t go there either but I will suggest that personally speaking, I can’t imagine being anywhere on the island without the benefit of my own car.

Back in the day we used to stay at Mullet Bay Resort where one of their features was their own on-property transit system that took you anywhere you wanted to go within the Resort but we still wanted and used our own car. More recently we’ve stayed at GCBC and a few other locations where a car definitely wasn’t needed but it was still nice to have the added freedom.

Rental cars on SXM are not as outrageously expensive as they can be in some other destinations and I suspect since you know your way around the island, you can find many rental agencies who will provide their cars at the airport, so by the time you’ve paid a taxi fee to and from the airport to Orient Beach you’ve mostly covered a small rental car for a week and any other touring is basically free.

Just one way if looking at it.....