For us we discovered SXM and Orient Beach by way of a cruise, then we would stay a week every Feb/Mar for about 7 years at Alamanda Resort located along Orient Beach, so along with the great food and some of the wonderful sights coming up and down the beach during the day it was a great vacation every year, but with that said, we are getting older and have found Aruba much more safer, cleaner, just about guaranteed great hot weather, so easy to get around, food is for us more than adequate and quite good and gambling is within walking distance up and down Palm Beach.

Probably the next and only times we will ever see SXM again will be way of RCCL Cruise stops.