Years ago, we would stay on the French side, sit on Orient Beach all day long, go to dinner in Grand Case, and then travel, almost every night, to the Dutch side to the casino. Then we started staying on the Dutch side, maybe 10 years ago, mostly at Beachside Villas. Being on the beach there these days, we mostly don't need to go to the 'beach', because the beach is at our doorstep. In a 10 day trip, we may go out to lunch somewhere, mostly French side, about three or four days. For dinner, we eat in half the time, maybe go to the French side for dinner once, and the other half the time, somewhere on the Dutch side.

Definitely we do travel around a lot less than we used to, when we first started coming to stay on SXM (versus coming on ships). We've been staying on land since 1995. I think the fact that we travel around a lot less is a function of just not NEEDING to do nearly as much any more, and being perfectly content most of the time, being at Beachside Villas. A small part of staying closer to home is security concerns, but mostly it's just we're becoming stay at home people in our old age!!