First trip to SXM on Carnival Celebration in 1987. We went shopping downtown ALL DAY. Wow. Several more cruises to SXM after that, then in February 1995, we booked Green Cay Villas through Jim Ruos, god rest his soul. During that trip, while at the Mullet Bay Casino one night, we happened to meet up with some very nice folks that had been our tablemates on one of those cruises. We played a LOT of roulette on that cruise, and I walked up behind him at the table and chided him for not playing #4, which is his wife's birthday. I recognized him right away, but I could tell he was quite puzzled to begin with, to try to figure out who we were! We laughed a lot. Then sadly, that September came Luis. But we were determined to support the island, so the next February, we stayed at L'Hoste on Orient Beach, which was just about the only place open on the beach. Club O, of course, was gone, but we went to the beach there every day. Lots more cruises since then, but have now mostly gravitated to SXM. Although we are looking for another cruise for the future..