Wow, what a wonderful trip.....arrived in St. Martin on Friday, Nov. 11th, stayed at Ocean Club for our entire visit. Spent three days on Cupecoy Beach and had lots of sand, water was unusally calm there on Sat. the 12th. They have installed a gate on Friday, Nov. 18th going into the area where construction is going to begin. Traveled over to Orient Beach for three days, played beach volleyball, visited Baywatch and had lunch. Went inot Philipsburg shopping on Thursday,four cruise ships were in port, made a trip to DK Gems and visited with Deepti, looking for baubles. We visited several new restaurants on the Dutch side, Rare which is next door to Temptations and was wonderful. I believe the same gentleman owns both places. The other restaurant has been opened only eight days and has really good food for a great price.....The Skipjack next door to The Wharf. The weather was beautiful and lots of construction going on. Already planning next trip..... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />