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Re: Anguilla Ferry & other activities
[Re: Beachluvr]
#62777
07/23/2015 08:21 AM
07/23/2015 08:21 AM
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We've taken the ferry many times to AXA, both from the Marigot and from the Dutch side since its inception there and have never experienced it as being rough but that's not to say it couldn't happen. Wrist bands or Bomine taken shortly before the trip might help.
I personally love everything about AXA but I'm wondering if your fourteen year old might not be of a different opinion, remembering how disenchanted my girls were the first time we took them over at about that age. Their reaction back then was basically 'a beach is a beach is a beach......why do we have to leave these SXM beaches to go to more beaches?' ...... and the site-seeing tour didn't offer much to change their opinions.
This is purely my opinion, but there's a lot more to do on SXM than in AXA without having to pay the additional ferry and immigration fees and run the risk of your daughter getting sick besides? A day trip to Anguilla is NOT an inexpensive day for a family, for sure. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
Respectfully,
pat
"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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Re: Anguilla Ferry & other activities
[Re: Beachluvr]
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07/23/2015 08:29 AM
07/23/2015 08:29 AM
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With regard to entertaining a fourteen year old daughter, most of the activities I can think of are water based entailing boats so the seasick thing is always there.
I'm not sure if she'd enjoy the zip lines but most kids do as well as an early morning trip to the Butterfly Farm, and then there's shopping at the Marketplace in Marigot or in P'berg. Airplane watching in the afternoons at SSB&G usually appeals to kids of all ages but please don't let her hang off the fence there. And then there's the vast variety of beaches, so many of them with their individual entertainments - we always found Orient to have the most between the trampolines, restaurants, jet skis and parasailing. Unfortunately, I'm not very up to date so not sure if those options still exist there.
If you want to take her to another island, you might consider Pinel over AXA.
Respectfully,
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