Michel,

How many nights? Wow! That's a tough one - we usually go over on an early boat from SXM and stay three nights, returning to SXM midday on our last AXA day. So it's almost like having four full days there.....

We go to SXM for two weeks generally speaking and we've gone to AXA straight from the airport a few times before we checked into our SXM timeshare but I probably won't do that again. It was a pain hauling all the luggage over there when most of it wasn't needed. We've also gone over in the middle of our two weeks on SXM which was nice but then you're paying for rooms on AXA while your hotel on SXM sits idle.

And what I personally definitely wouldn't do again is spend my last few vacation days on AXA and then have to make the connections back to SXM for departure the same day. I'm a 'what if' person and if we were connecting to our homeward flight from AXA, I know I'd be worrying the whole time about things like 'what if the channel crossings can't be made on departure day' or 'what if we get caught on AXA in weather and miss our flight' - or 'what if the boat broke down?'Oh ye of little faith!!

If you've already been to St. Maarten before then perhaps you'd want to spend your whole trip on Anguilla flying in and out of Wallblake with only a day-trip or a one or two day overnight to SXM?

It's really hard to say what might work for someone else. We like to do NOTHING every now and then so we find the AXA days perfect for exercising that option. But too much of nothin'..... aren't they words from an old hit song? Most wouldn't enjoy that. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />