Just Arrived in Heaven!

We just arrived, picked up car from Lesley (and he is great!). Shop and Drop did a great job (beer in hand)! Flights were good, flew out of Myrtle Beach to Alt, and over night in San Juan (WE WILL NOT DO THAT AGAIN), sorry for the yelling but was well deserved! Flew in on Sea Borne Air (spl). Met Mechelle, she absolutely is a GREAT fit for BSV! Nicholas greate dus with open arms! Couldn’t ask for more! But after all that we are here!!!!

Enjoy

Thanks and do enjoy your stay. Do forget to check El Zafiro right next to your Villa.

Thanks Lesley! We will try it out, might be tonight unless you have a better suggestion Sir!

Looks like the beach is coming back!! Enjoy!!

Enjoy.

Try it and please let me know how was the food. Thanks.

Cruise ship passing by at 5:13

Great photos, keep them coming. Just noticed you are from Topsail, took a ride up there this afternoon,
we're from Wilmington. Enjoy your trip.

Yeah, I wouldn't do ATL-SJU-SXM either. Maybe ATL-SXM, but definitely not with the extra SJU stop. Both DL and UA are routing pax through SJU on some days, using Seaborn (now part of Silver, I think) as their SJU-SXM carrier. It's quite a hike to the Seaborn gates in SJU Terminal D.

Yea we would normally not over night in SJU, that being said, things aren’t quite normal flying into SXM these days. It has been 16 years since we have been to SJU and again that was an over night also, forgot how bad we hated it!!! LOL! With our schedule and limited on flying days, that’s how it worked out this time. I was told once we arrived at BSV, beer in hand, that SJU is now Permanently off our fly list!! No tears shed there!!

So I know Lesley asked us to try out El Zafiros for dinner, buuut we decide to stroll down to the BUS (Amazingly it survived Irma, funny how some things you thought would be gone after a CAT5+ but just hug around, like the palapa by the pool at BSV! Thought that would have been a kite!). The food was amazing and we just had the best time (Im sure the beer helped some), I had the grouper with mashed potatoes, wife had the steak with the same, and we shared an appetizer of crab cakes! It was fantastic!

Glad you enjoyed your evening. The food at Karakter had been kind of off recently. Hopefully they are back on track.

Good to hear that you Folks had a good dinner.

The beach is coming back quite nicely! The sand feels like pure silt, and the bottom is soooo smooth with NO drop off! We think it’s the best it’s ever been in many years. There is still a little bit of the foundation visible from BSV.

Just one letter changes the meaning. "Pure silt", did you mean "pure silk"? Lol

Glad to hear the beach is coming back.

Wow, that looks delicious! Perhaps we'll have to give Karakter another try this upcoming visit.

I used to enjoy Karakters. Spent many days and loads of $$.

No longer. Loungers became too close. Food lacking.

And recently?! LOUD music (that I complained to them about....Lesley knows. that you can hear late night when staying in villas along the beach.

We are flying out of myrtle 13 days. Can not wait.

Just a few more pictures, we really haven’t gone anywhere as of yet, sand gravity! And they are working on the airport and it’s roof!

Leona--speaking of 'staying in villas along the beach' I'm hoping there's a trip report coming in the near future! ...with lots of food porn!!

SXMFox--that's the way it should be! There are many days at BSV that we don't leave! We have everything we need there. Have the winds calmed down?

Hello Carol, the winds have been perfect, not too strong at all! But late yesterday the seaweed started showing up. I’ll take a pic later on and send it. But in reality, every thing that has occurred (Irma), scrambling to change vacations, and super glad to just be back, we’re not complaining.

Sorry about the seaweed. Hopefully that's not a trend..

Lots and lots of sargassum floating by. Some beaches are awash with it.

Elaine--which beaches are affected right now?

Not sure. Orient was good yesterday, Cupecoy never gets it. I know the usual suspects are a mess. Dawn Beach, Cul De Sac. Simpson Bay was good two days ago, but obviously that has changed per the post above.

The algae blooms are big this year off the coast of South America from run off, which In turn produces seaweed and is then picked by the currents and now it’s here! Well looks like today is a travel day!

And this!

This might be of interest also, UNITED had three jets at separate times in yesterday. In the near future we might look to travel with them! There has to be a better way of getting here! But I can tell you that the puddle jumpers are having a banner year so far!

They normally rake the beach every morning there. Has all this come up just this morning?

Oh wow....that wasn't there three days ago! We got lucky.

Orient and Cul-de-Sac are a hot mess with the seaweed. It has even stopped the Pinel ferry.

Not sure how well you can see this, but that brown stuff floating by..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8fT3zTgk

Beach at Club O had none when we swam there yesterday, it does tend to gather more towards the other end of the beach. Going back to check again today!

Yea we know that they normally rake it up and put it in trash bags, BUT you can’t rake this, it’s two feet high! They will need a tractor.

Oh yea! Same here, big brown seaweed! I thought y’all were supposed to have a net on your side of the island to caught all this stuff, LOL!!! It’s a lot! But not complaining, just glad to be here!!!

A few years ago as we were flying into the general area of SXM we spotted that brownish tinge lying in the water across much of the area and didn’t really know what it was. Whizz Kid that I am, I thought it might be some type of an oil or chemical spill. It was huge and went on for miles as we landed. We didn’t notice it too much around Mullet or Maho but we did find it at Simpson Bay to a small degree and it was deep on most of the French side of the island. That was the first time we ever saw and experienced the Sargasso seaweed.......ugh! 😊😊

Wow, cr*p.. Hope it goes away..

And the raking has begun! What a mess

Yolanda was just there enjoying the beach and seeing the place rebuilt. Glad she got to experience it before the seaweed came in!

Saw lots of seaweed these past3 weeks. Constant stream of it off shore.

Today Driftwood for lunch and off to Mullet! Was a great day!

Mullet looks wonderful! Thanks for posting!

Yes mullet was perfect today! We are going to have the rids tomorrow there! Heading out tonight for some dinner, not sure where we will end up, that’s the great thing of being here at BSV! Nicholas is watching guard over us now, us and only one of her couple here now, LIFE IS GOOD!

And here is Nicholas! Soooo cute!,, you have to love it!

Sounds like some people who are missing SXM now should book BSV, on their special of $149 a night for new bookings!! Hey, Pat, you listening????

And we're from Little River, SC. Bunch of SXM lovers in the Carolinas.

Of coarse, we flew out of myrtle beach! That’s funny!

Photos of BSV

Love this feature of posting photos! Can show something almost instantly!

Hey Carol, where did you see that special rate?

The special rate is now posted in the Classified section here.

Wow, OK thanks for the pictures. Looks like I need to bring down a load of books to read!!

Yea you might need too! Very tiny. Lol. Two cruise ships about to pass by now, way cool!

Pictures???

Thanks for the pics!

Sorry! Lol just one, mickey was in town today also! Love those horns!

Thanks for all the pics, sharing your vacation with us!

Anytime, we are just like anyone else! Living ours or your vacation thru someone else’s eyes! That is what life is all about, share and share alike, right? It’s the way we were brought up in this world, so why not just have some fun, and share!

Thanks. Agreed!! Enjoy the rest of your stay!

Thanks, Carol! But we are not done by a long shot on the photos! Just saying! Cut us off If it’s to much, lol!

No, absolutely not! Please continue to post photos!!!

So here it comes! We really don’t have to explain any of this, but will be glad too! All you have to do is ask.
Our thoughts, we live on the east coast so we know all about hurricanes and the havoc they can produce, so that being said. The French side including Dawn Beach had There A.. handed to them. We reall can’t see them coming back in 8 to 9 years On island time. Dutch side is pretty ok given the circumstances. Any thing that was north or east of the island was tore The he.. up! Sad to see but it’s not anything we’re not use to seeing. These are our random photos, so please enjoy and take away from them what you will.

So this is still heaven to US! But for most of the time share people (which we are not) in my opinion your dates will keep pushing back if you want to use your time share. A LOT of work has to be completed! Don’t get me wrong, please come down, the island needs you, but the cruise ship industry is only pumping in money with passengers to a very few spots on the island. Just my opinion. So here are some more.

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