In 1995 we were suppose to go to Puerto Vallarta with friends. The friends backed out, so since my husband and I had already planned our vacations from work for that February, we decided to try an island in the Caribbean instead, and at that time Travel Charter was doing direct trips from Detroit to various islands, and we chose St. Maarten because of the two cultures. We had narrowed our resort choices down to Dawn Beach or Divi, and luckily we chose Divi, as Dawn Beach was destroyed later that year by Hurricane Luis, and never rebuilt. Unfortunately Luis also severely damaged Divi Little Bay Resort that Fall, and were closed during 1996. But we were back there in 1997, and most years since then, except after the 2017 Hurricane Irma in 2017, and Covid. Travel Charter went out of business quite a few years ago, and since then we have layovers and super high prices from Detroit to SXM, but we still manage to go.