We took our first trip in February, 1996, and the island still had a fair amount of damage left from Hurricane Luis. (We didn't realize how terrible it had been when we booked the trip.) We stayed at Belair, and were dismayed to find that there was a large dredger in Little Bay, busy pumping sand back onto the beach! Our kids were 5 & 6 and we had hoped to spend lots of time at the resort hanging out on the beach. It turned out we had an even better time exploring the rest of the island, managing to see almost every beach on the map! We did the day trip to Prickly Pear, which we still enjoy doing, and had several great meals at Marina Royale, another favorite place of ours. By the end of the trip, we'd fallen in love with SXM and bought a timeshare at Divi, despite all the damaged buildings. We've returned almost every year since, and will be back in March. Our oldest daughter is now in college, and is still willing to spend spring break with the family, as long as it's on SXM! She is bringing a friend along who's returning for a second year because they had such a good time last year.