A not so experienced SXM visitor here <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> but we really enjoyed our first trip in March! We stayed at NBBC and it was perfect for this trip, but to be honest we planned a last minute trip and most places were booked solid including GCBC.

It is not a resort, they are privately owned condo's and there are no amenities. HOWEVER, the villa was very clean and had everything we needed, not to mention Dreams, Ma Ti and Le Sands were walking distance along the beach.

There's a French bakery and a small convenience store a short walk down the main street and a larger grocery store 1 mile towards Marigot.

NBBC was super quiet at all hours of the day/night. We walked at night and never felt unsafe around the complex including the beach at night.

As far as the beach there are small pieces of tumbled glass that gets washed up, my wife says one persons trash is anothers treasure, she brought home a bunch. We actually didn't swim at NBBC, but we saw some people with small kids swimming in the center area. Our villa was in the section to the far right side of the complex, the beach/sand gets softer as we walked towards the restaurants and the access to the water looked much easier. We had coral/rock with urchins in front of our villa but the center on down didn't appear to have the large rock bottom that we had, all sand from what I could tell. Each villa section had its own refreshing clean pool positioned in the center of the beach just steps from the surf.

Please read my trip reports, there are lots of photos. Give me a shout if you have any questions about NBBC. By the way, GCBC looks awesome, unfortunately we didn't get to explore Grand Case. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />