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Wednesday RonDon 5 hours ago Amazing! No rain. Spent most of the day at the new pool and bar. Don used the binoculars to look over Anguilla and said there was a lot of new construction at the left side.

Dinner was at Ti Coin Creole. Carl is so warm and smiling all the time. When we arrived, on our way to GCBC we passed his place and he was outside gave us a
warm “welcome back”
It,s always nice to be remembered.

Dinner began with an order each of Accra’s. Don had steak au poive even though this is a Creole restaurant there are other offering. I had the goat. With two glasses of red wine bill was 105€ But Carl gives 1 to 1

If my reports are all about where we eat it’s because that’s what I come to SXM for

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Tuesday RonDon 6 hours ago Rain! I have never been here and seen so much rain. When it cleared we chose loungers on walkway that faced Grand Case. Read, napped, watched boats come and go until rain again. Drenched by time we got to our room.

When rain cleared we drove to Marigot and lunched at Be Kool. Reservations are needed here even for lunch for the food is great and locals eat here. I had made them before leaving g home. We watched lots of tourists be turned away.

But Wendy K a TtOL member wasn’t. She knows the drill. Had I known beforehand we could have dined together .

Began with smoked salmon on tiny pancakes topped with cream. Don had porc cheeks with mashed potatoes and I had porc medallions with fries. I think they have the best fries. Washed it all down with a bottle of Rose as we “people watched”. 185$ our most expensive meal yet.

Back at gcbc to Rain I swear it’s only raining in Gc. Had sun all the while in Marigot even got to roam the marketplace.

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Monday RonDon 6 hours ago Rain! Breakfast toasted baguette melon yogurt coffee on lanai thanks for the cover from rain. Then the bugs arrived. Back inside until rain stopped. Chose loungers atop walkway overlooking creol rock and Anguilla.

The rain again. Headed back to our unit for lunch salad of greens, tomato tuna.

Dinner KOHO anew place across from Rainbow Club towards end of Blvd Don had whole snapper and I had lamb shank both excellent. We began with aptzr of Cambert cheese flamed by Calvados on a plank with toast points, grapes, papaya on one side and tomatoes lettuce on the other. We had started with an Amperol Spritz each and then washed down dinner with a glass of wine each white for Don, red for me one bottle of water 134€

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Sunday RonDon 6 hours ago Continental bkfst compliments gcbc then on to Super U. Back at gcbc lounged at waterfront then checked out the new pool bar called Moonbar.

Lunch on lanai Brie baguette olives and wine. Nap

Dinner l,auberge gourmand another anniversary welcome by Chantal
We each had onion soup, orange roughy from the specials bottle Pino
Torrential rains as we waited for gcbc shuttle to pick us up. Dinner 161€

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Kinda wondering gitter 6 hours ago When I was at St. Martin last month, I realized something that makes me wonder. I saw a huge number of clothing with "St. (Or Sint) Maarten" and some with "St. Maarten and "St. Martin" but nearly zero with just St. Martin. Just curious why that is?

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Our trip RonDon 6 hours ago Sorry I haven’t posted and trip is almost over.

Flight Boston SXM delayed an hour for de icing still we arrived 11:30am met Leslie and on the road before noon. Best arrival ever small crowd and we had carry on.

Gutside for lunch. Richard and Lourdes are well and feisty as ever. We both had snapper with rice avocado plantain green beans 2 ginger rake one bottle water 34 euro for it all.

On to gcbc where upon check in we found in unit a star snapped bottle of Punch Busco two hand painted shot glasses palm trees and saying Grand Case and a note: Happy Anniversary wishing you many more years of togetherness signed The Team.

Gcbc was where we spent our honeymoon 46 years ago.

Drank some of the punch and went to bed exhausted. Had been up since 2am

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Bridge Sandy ground RonDon 7 hours ago Has it been repaired yet.?

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Baths via land Matt W Yesterday at 03:00 PM hey TTOL fam. will be down this month and planning to visit the baths via taxi at Leverick for the first time. Have some younger/older folks onboard and dont want to risk red flag conditions. Anyone have taxi driver referrals, preferably a safari truck? What's the going rate per person? What time should we plan pick-up to avoid cruise ship traffic? Thanks!!!

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New SBR live cam SXMScubaman Yesterday at 02:58 PM https://www.youtube.com/live/vxHKAImxUHk

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Club Orient Beach & SXM traffic DAS 03/10/2026 03:01 PM My wife and I first visited St Martin in 1989, and have vacationed there every year since the early 90's (except for the Hurricane Louis year, 1995). We would stay at Club Orient, until Hurricane Irma. Some brief notes from our most recent vacation (February 21 to March 7) -
• if we wanted front row chairs at the 'Club Orient' beach we needed to be there by 5:20 AM. Shortly thereafter, people would come and 'save' groups of 10-14 chairs
• there are only about 200 chairs set up on that beach, which is now far smaller than before Hurricane Irma - prior to the hurricane, there seemed to be more than 400 chairs
• those who do not rent chairs/umbrellas from Cedrick are required to place their chairs beyond a flagpole situated past the massage hut
• much of the sand in the 'Club Orient' beach has been lost, and there are many exposed rocks in the water, up and down the 'Club Orient' beach
• it was very windy during our vacation and the waves at the 'Club Orient' beach were considerable - a number of people chose not to go into the water because of the current. We wonder if the reef between Green Cay and the mainland was damaged during Hurricane Irma, leading to a greater impact of the ocean on the beach
• some of the Club Orient units are being claimed by the ocean, and there is rebar sticking up in various parts of the beach
• Orient Village was very crowded every night, and it was advisable to make restaurant reservations online days in advance.
• the traffic situation in SXM has become very difficult. It took some friends 3 hours to drive from Juliana Airport to Orient Village after their flight last Tuesday arrived at 2:00 PM. When we drove to Juliana last Saturday at noon, the traffic coming in the other direction was barely moving and stretched all the way to the rotary giving access to Cole Bay and the airport bridge.

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