Your choices are RI LaPlage or LaTarasse or Simpson Bay Resort. The others do not have good options for food and nightlife in walking distance. The first two are in Maho, which personally I don't like Maho. Looks like a little town to me. But there are lots of shopping, eating and nightlife opportunities there. Simpson Bay Resort is in the middle of Simpson Bay and there is a tonn of stuff to walk to from there. Not as many as Royal Palm, which would be my number one choice, but it wasn't on the list!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" /> SBR, there are a vast variety of rooms there, some with views, some with views of the back of another building! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> Most of the units there now have been refurbished in the past couple of years and are lovely. If they could get a room at the Villas at Simpson Bay, they are the newest section, all ocean view and lovely. With regard to walking anywhere from SBR, disagree with the other poster, not dangerous to walk from there.