Our first visit was a port-of-call from a Princess Cruise Ship, but that story is boring. A better one goes back to 1981 (the year my wife and I got married). That year, three of us couples who were friends all got married that fall. Our one set of friends decided to take their vacation on St. Martin and didn't do my research about it in advance. I'm not exactly sure where they stayed back in '81, but it was obviously close to Orient Beach. My friend's wife was totally unaware of European sunbathing standards and once she encountered topless women and nude sunbathers on the beach, that was it. Never ventured out onto the beach again (any beach on SXM), and it was only the hotel pool after that! The phrase "when in Rome ..." totally did not apply here. Always found that story amusing, and she did eventually recover from the culture shock of that honeymoon (though we never asked them to join us on our many subsequent visits to SXM)!