bran,

We day-tripped the first time (after 20 years of SXM visits.....) and fell in love with Saba. It is so beautiful and so different from all the other islands we've visited and we were actually so enamored with the island we chose to go back a few years later and just lime out for four nights.

The day-trip was via the Edge and we booked a pre-packaged tour that included transpo to and from, an air conditioned van tour with site-seeing and a stop to drop off and later reclaim hikers going to Mount Scenery, stops to purchase Saba lace and spice, photo stops across the island and an incredible lunch at Queens Garden Inn.

QGI was so nice, we booked our return trip there a few years later and were so glad we did. We took the boat the first trip and there were some on the boat who were sea-sick and many, like us, who did not. On our return stay-over we flew. My best recommendation would be to fly over for the experience of landing on their airport runway and take the boat back, hopefully enjoying much calmer seas returning to SXM.

And for the record, we were there almost five full days and we don't hike, snorkel or dive and as I'm sure you know, there is virtually no beach there at all for most of the year, and we loved every minute of our stay. We did some very serious limin' but truth be known, as nice as the QGI was and as much as we enjoyed the pool there and the island as a whole, five days was more than enough and we were happy to return to the more active vibes of SXM.

If it helps at all, I'd go back in a heartbeat and do it all over again.