We've taken the ferry many times to AXA, both from the Marigot and from the Dutch side since its inception there and have never experienced it as being rough but that's not to say it couldn't happen. Wrist bands or Bomine taken shortly before the trip might help.

I personally love everything about AXA but I'm wondering if your fourteen year old might not be of a different opinion, remembering how disenchanted my girls were the first time we took them over at about that age. Their reaction back then was basically 'a beach is a beach is a beach......why do we have to leave these SXM beaches to go to more beaches?' ...... and the site-seeing tour didn't offer much to change their opinions.

This is purely my opinion, but there's a lot more to do on SXM than in AXA without having to pay the additional ferry and immigration fees and run the risk of your daughter getting sick besides? A day trip to Anguilla is NOT an inexpensive day for a family, for sure. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />