We went to La Playa twice last week. Food was good. When we spent the day at the beach they did charge for beach chairs even though we were having lunch. That seemed to be the norm at all of the beach clubs we visited. Second time at LaPlaya we had a table up off the beach and they were the only restaurant all week that asked for our vax cards for dining. We also visited Wai Plage and Coco. Coco was my favorite meal. DH and DD loved the poke bowls at LaPlaya though.

I'll second Manpot's west end of Little Apple Bay is great. The area off of Bomba's (is it even there?) is also good when the swell is down and there's no surfing. Frenchman's Cay, go to the resort, park by the tennis courts, and enter thru their beach area, go to the left, you can go around the point and exit on their little pier. Keep in mind, the last time I was there was 2017 so the hurricane may have changed some things. The other end of the island, Long Bay East has great snorkeling at the west end. Josiah's Bay go out to the right and follow the coast. Back to west end, at Smugglers the reef right there is pretty beat, by there's still plenty of fish around on a good day. If you head towards the point to the right there's a lot of interesting areas. God, I miss Tortola. Can't wait to get back.

Our resort RCI points are refundable/insured. Our JetBlue tixx can cancel at anytime w/o penalty w/ full refund.

Half our party is vax w/boost, one kid vax, no boost and the other no vax (That all sounds like a Starbucks order...LOL.) but both had c19 in Nov.

So I was debating trip insurance & COVAC Global piqued our interest bc if we did get a positive test before our return flight to the US, could get home in a few days as opposed to 10 quarantine. This appealed to me as Im in healthcare and in my state, can return to work if symptom free within 5 days. Otherwise it seems that trip insurance stands to refund non refundable costs.

BUT.....COVAC GLOBAL changed its MO, as I suspected it would with the holiday surge. Their model did not seem sustainable...https://thepointsguy.com/news/covac-global-issues/ and of course people abused the system.

Im going to tinker on insuremytrip but is there other insurance I should be looking at as far as we test positive there besides the mandatory SXXM insure?

I will be down then and love to join in..loved the dinghy crawl/poker runs and miss Nick and Monzi..

Must be more to the story.....

We stayed in the El Convento for a couple of days several years ago. Nice facility and good location to Old SJ sites, restaurants, etc.

They are out of the 3-pack kits. $150 for 6.

Testing the engines now. Very loud!!!😳
Sounds like a plane taking off...forever!

OK, think it would be better to close this one here. If St. Martin decides to change their rules, someone should post that.

4 trips in last year and no one has asked.

Yup, it is sad to see them sitting there like that. Such a contrast with those that actually have passengers onboard.

All boats at BVI Yacht Charters are licensed for fishing, both monos and cats.