we've been to quite a few islands, but got hooked on SXM after our first trip quite a few years ago...so much so that we've been going at least once a year almost every year since...but we had also really enjoyed our previous visits to Barbados, so when we skipped SXM for a couple of years after Hurricane Irma, we went back to Barbados instead, and were pleasantly reminded how much we really liked the island

so although it's been a few years since our last visit to BGI, we still talk about substituting Barbados for SXM...and actually since we now split the time of our yearly visit between SXM and SBH, we would probably miss our time on SBH more than SXM