This will be our third trip to the French side. Our first visit was in January’22, during the peak of the pandemic for the island. So, needless to say the restrictions made it easy to walk into any restaurant and get a table. Our second trip was in mid August, definitely not peak season, the only issue was towards the end of our vacation restaurants were closing for hurricane season. Now, we will be there just after new year’s, and it seems the island is getting back to normal. Does it get crowded enough that reservations will be needed in orient village? How about lunch at Pinel?