Lets see. Our first visit was a whole family thing on a Princess cruise and the excursion took us to Marigot market and then a very happy to have us Boo Boo Jam for half beach day and we bought lunch and drinks and beach shop souvenirs until say 1230 and back to the ship where we got in a cab to Maho for a few minutes to watch planes and then to Mullet where we had chairs, drinks and ribs. Excursion for 8 about 800. Chairs/Ribs/drinks for 8 much less. Who knows how many cheap sxm tshirts were bought. More stuff at port. Van fare for afternoon.

Spent way more on that cruise day on SXM then I ever have on land tour.

Sounds like things people that stay on the island do everyday except of course Boo Boo Jam is no more.

We immediately booked a land vacation for 6 months later.