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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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We have so many SXM memories.......I could go on and on (as I so often do.......!)
Along with all the other memories I've posted in this thread early on, in the evenings after dinner we used to enjoy leaving the unit where we stayed at Mullet Resort and walking the golf course, being mindful of the sprinkling system - and yes, they did have one back then - down to the beach at Mullet and perhaps taking a dip. Some nights we'd walk out to Maho Beach. This was before the Towers or Royal Islander was built and there was no Maho village or Cheri's and only the earliest stages of what is now the Sonesta Resort. There was no Boat Bar or Sunset Beach Bar at the other end of the beach. The original Caravanserai Resort - the one before all the different timeshare ventures came into being - was the only place I recall on other end of the beach before it became residential. It was a one and a half lane undivided road at that time and there were probably more walkers than cars.
We would walk out and at about the point where the Boat Bar is today we'd sit in the sand and watch the last late landing plane come in over Maho Beach. On a good night we could spot the plane well out over the ocean and as it came closer, it's lights would become visible to us and shine on the waves and cause them to shimmer in the glow.
As the plane finally soared overhead it almost felt as if it was pulling the surf up to the road. There was virtually NOTHING in this area at the time and it was clearly a favorite parking spot for island couples who I guess also enjoyed watching the late plane arrive. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Wink.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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And the waitstaff at the Boon dressed in those pretty plaid dresses......we used to enjoy the fixed menu and would usually try to go the evenings they served the veal dijonaise medallions. After cocktails in the self-serve bar, they would announce dinner and just start serving. The amazing part to me was they always came around with offerings of seconds and thirds if you could manage them. And the warm apple pie ala mode as dessert? Oh, the memories!!
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Certainly a different setting from Turtle Pier in its day, but equally nice IMO, is Tortuga at the Royal Islander and I'm almost positive I've had baguette style French toast there with Mimosas to wash it down. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Wild Boar Sausage at Le Perokeet (sp) Frigate in Mullet Bay Resort Laguna And yes you are right, the airfares were reasonable.
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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07/06/2017 02:30 PM
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H*ll, even Buccaneer when Neil was there! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> Neil was a character! ...I assume he still is, wherever he is!!
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Our first visit back in 1997? When we took our first cruise and the last port before returning to San Juan was Phillipsburg. We signed up for the America's Cup 12 Metre Regatta and had a blast crewing Stars and Stripes in a race against Canada 2...
We had lunch on the wharf near the Regatta's office and walked down to Front Street...and the jewelry stores... When Linda asked me whether she should get a small saphire ring or a small ruby ring, I just said "Why not get both, Sweetheart?"
At that point she looked at me like she had on our wedding day two decades before, and suggested we go check out what this "Club Orient beach" was all about (and which she had said "no way in hell" to the previous evening onboard the ship)!
By the time we were on the tender headed back to the ship that afternoon we were planning the first of our now many week(s) long stays at Club Orient.
Never did take another cruise...
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Oh, for sure!! I remember when his daughter was on the front cover of the AA magazine. Anyone know, is Julie still the chef at Loterie Farm?
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Not sure if it was already mentioned but we loved our dinners around the pool at Paradise Cafe along with the ornate wicker chairs my girls thought of as thrones, and those beautiful parrots on the porch outside the restaurant who seemed to spend as much time on top of their cages as they spent in them. Memories, memories..... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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We are still building our memories since 2012. Chairs, umbrella's with free drink at Pedro's off the cruise ship. Wandered down to Perch to try their drinks. They were very good. After that our first swim out to The Club O float. Been twice since on a stay vacation. 8 months 3 weeks till the next. Seems to me the road we took into orient beach by taxi, was a lot more dirt, even in 2012. I think they dropped us off somewhere on the north end of the beach.
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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I wasn't that fond of hauling my carry on bags up that staircase to get there, but the view and the food at Cafe Juliana were worth it!!
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Every year when we stopped in to see Neil either at SBB or BBB he would yell at me for still having a watch on. Watch was a must when I was still working and a hard habit to break even on vacation. Now, retired, I never have one on.
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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I remember Narcissa from Don Carlos. She was a sweet lady. We actually ran into her brother randomly on our only Aruba vacation in 1999. Small world. Wonder what became of her.
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Wendy--thanks for the pics! Is the second one Pedro's and the last one Papagayo?
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Wendy,
Thanks for sharing the photos - and in particular the ones of the Marigot Marketplace pre-Speed. We spent many an hour there 'back in the day'....
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Re: Enough Doom and Gloom - Remember the Good Old Days
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Carol_Hill said: Wendy--thanks for the pics! Is the second one Pedro's and the last one Papagayo? 1st pic Food Center, 2nd pic Scavengers. Dawn Beach, 3rd pic Marigot Market and 4th pic Papagayo, Club Orient 1982
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