Excellent trip overall!! Our first time to SXM and I'm sure it won't be our last.<br><br>Excellent *****<br>Great ****<br>OK ***<br>won't go back **<br>wish we didn't go *<br>Accomidations: Divi Little Bay.<br>We had an exchange through RCI. We loved it, they are doing some remodeling now and that was kidda bad. We had a one bedroom apartment. We enjoyed the beach...not crowded and wonderful weather the entire week.<br><br>Restraunts:<br>L' Alabama (Grand Case)***** Excellent service! Excellent food! Excellent wine!<br><br>Saratoga (Simpson Bay) **** We loved it! <br><br>Rick's sport's Bar (Simpson Bay) **** Good 'ol American food. Bring your cash, no credit cards!!!<br><br>Paris Bristo (Mayo) **** French style food. Service not as good as L'Alabama, but very nice atmosphere sitting in the open air.<br><br>SSBB ***************** That goes without saying!!!!<br><br>Rental Car: AAA (Arnell) ***** Best rental car experience we've ever had!!!!! We were traveling standby on American Eagle from San Juan. We e-mailed Arnell at arnell@wanadoo.fr[Linked Image][Linked Image] and told him we weren't sure when we would get there, but wanted to rent a car. We'll we finally made it, ON THE LAST FLIGHT, and they were waiting there for us. I couldn't believe it!!! They were great.<br><br>Scuba Diving: *** weather conditions weren't great. 3-5 feet swells, but we did see two sharks[Linked Image] We used Dive safari in Philipsburg. Very nice people.<br><br>Have fun and I hope this helps someone!!!<br><br><br><br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Administrator on 6/5/01 02:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>