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Re: Budget
[Re: encpirate]
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05/11/2015 11:06 PM
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Since most of the high end restaurants tend to be competitive on price, I'd suggest you check out their individual menus to offer some idea of the prices of the dishes you may want to order, since there is a decent gap between the lower priced meals and higher priced ones. Pick one of the restaurants--Bistrot Caraibbes, L' Auberge Gourmand, Le Cottage, L' Estaminet, et. al. for a general idea.
House wine tends to run 7-9 Euros a glass, but I have no idea what cocktails go for.
I'd say $100 is a minimum for a light appetite, and $150-175 is about what we spend, on average, for a more extensive meal--more if you have more that 1 bottle of wine, or better taste than I in wine.
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Re: Budget
[Re: RonDon]
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05/12/2015 08:21 AM
05/12/2015 08:21 AM
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Hmmmm, I dont really think in terms of a 'budget' either, but if it helps at all, on our most recent trip our dinners seemed to average from $85.00 on the low side to one evening where our dinner ran over $170.00 for two but that did include one bottle of wine with dinner and a shared dessert souffle as well as apps before our main selections. I think the average dinner out (or lunch on two separate occasions...) ran about $105.00 for the two of us with never more than a glass or two of wine included. And while that would definitely add up over two or three weeks of vacation we counter-balanced those meals by the fact there were many days when it was either lunch or dinner out and other days when we didn't eat out at all and enjoyed the luxury of meals on the balcony of our timeshare.
And as embarrassing as this is to admit, when talking in terms of eating/SXM, quite honestly, we thoroughly enjoyed those fresh baguette sandwiches with some fruit and island cheeses and a glass or two of wine thrown in for good measure - thank you Jeannie for providing the best eating in provisions available - almost as much as we enjoyed our higher end dinners out. There are days you just don't want to have to eat out and we seemed to have quite a few of them this past trip. And then there's the reheat nights - and we had a few of those, too, and with our oven and micro put to good use, we enjoyed them almost as much as the original dinners - I'm always amazed at the size of the portions some restaurants serve......
St. Maarten/St. Martin has such a wide variety of eating/dining choices that you really can do it as inexpensively or as high-end as you are personally comfortable with. We're not particularly what you might class as real foodies but we can definitely be little piggies at times!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
Last edited by pat; 05/12/2015 09:33 AM.
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Re: Budget
[Re: RonDon]
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05/12/2015 04:01 PM
05/12/2015 04:01 PM
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Posts: 82,947 Central Florida!
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Apparently there is a 20 Euro 3 course meal at Sol e Luna for lunch now also. A real chance to enjoy a fabulous meal for not much money.
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