Our February 2017 vacay consisted of a 5 day visit with friends in St Croix and then an island hop over to St Martin for 6 nights on the French side. We booked our flights on Liat Air for Feb 10th - it is a 50 min flight and cost $70USD each. Liat Air has informed us that they are no longer flying on Fridays and our flights have been moved to Wed Feb 8th. We have 21 days from notification to accept the change or get a refund. Researching alternative flights has me believing 'you can't get there from here' unless you want to blow your budget - $465 USD each - leaving St Croix at 6AM and landing in STX at Noon. - Two things wrong with this - the considerable increase in cost and the time spent getting there - spending an extra 5 hours and taking 3 flights does not sound pleasant to us. Please note that we are Canadian and with current exchange rates the difference in the fares is actually $1120 Cdn. So now we are onto plan B - take the Wed flights - perhaps arrive in St Croix one day earlier so that our visit with our friends is not so short and spend 2 days on the Dutch side before we go to our reservations at La Playa on Feb 10th. The challenge with this idea is that most places want you to book 7 nights. I have found Mary's Boon will rent 2 nights. Our questions: Do you have any recommendations of a short term rental? Is Mary's Boon close to restaurants and night clubs? Is Mary's Boon a nice place? Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated. Cheers Pixie
