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Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! #40291
02/16/2015 08:22 PM
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After my wife and I had taken a dozen trips to St Martin, we decided to share our love of the island with our entire family. So, we cashed in a zillion points to buy eleven plane tix, rented a large villa, rented 4 SUVs from Unity, and took our two sons, their awesome wives, our three extra-awesome grandkids, my mom and her husband to St Martin for 8 nights, the week of Thanksgiving. At a family dinner last week, our younger son's wife presented each of us with a photo book and a copy of a DVD that she had put together to commemorate our vacation together. As they say in the commercial, some things are priceless. This is one of them:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jjuzhr6pi9l2yb/StMartin.mov?dl=0

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Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40292
02/16/2015 09:05 PM
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Thanks for sharing your special trip! Looks like a great time.


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Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40293
02/16/2015 09:21 PM
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Thanks for sharing! Family vacations and the memories we hold in our hearts are indeed priceless!

Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40294
02/16/2015 09:27 PM
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And how many grandparents could never do something like that? This will be a trip that all of those kids will remember forever. You are so lucky to share that priceless moment!

Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40295
02/16/2015 09:54 PM
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Long island
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Your video is awesome - such a beautiful reminder of what looks like a very memorable family experience! Can you tell us the name and location of the villa? Thanks for sharing!

Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: VGerfo] #40296
02/16/2015 11:37 PM
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It is Villa Belle Vue:
http://bellevue-stmartin.com/
Located in Hope Hill Estates, overlooking Orient.
We have stayed there twice, and have future trips booked
there for April and November of this year.
A tour of the villa can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/v651upl1cflp0ro/AAAFAEQuYcrw46WUxKIhMl5ka

Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: VGerfo] #40297
02/16/2015 11:41 PM
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Oh, b/t/w, my mom and her husband stayed at Esmeralda.
Only nine of us stayed at Villa Belle Vue.

Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40298
02/17/2015 09:29 AM
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That was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: BeachKitten] #40299
02/17/2015 10:00 AM
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Great video! Thanks for sharing! Five years ago we took our 4 kids- 2 with spouses, friends, other family (17 in all) for our vow renewal on the beach and had a blast!! We will all be going again in July and can't wait!! Family vacations in a place that you love, is the best!! Now that you have them all hooked you'll have to do it again and again!!


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Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40300
02/17/2015 10:31 AM
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Wow, what a wonderful watch! Thanks so much for posting.


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Re: Take Your Entire Family to St Martin! [Re: freedomfighter] #40301
02/17/2015 10:58 AM
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It does not get better than that...........You have a lucky family..........I salute you


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