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Re: Anse Marcel Beach
[Re: pat]
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12/01/2015 10:09 PM
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StMartinMike
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Thank you, Pat. Your directions are great and I will use them in tandem with Google Earth to commit the route to memory. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, Mike. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Groovin.gif" alt="" />
"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean...And when we go back to the sea...we are going back from whence we came." >((((º>
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Re: Anse Marcel Beach
[Re: mitchnkim]
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12/02/2015 06:16 AM
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mitchnkim said: Glad to read of the parking here. The former Privilage Hotel was our very first stay on SXM - long gone. I remember the Hotel Keep - Bernard was a wonderful man. We stopped making the trek over the hill when the hotel closed and there has been lots of turn over at the other resorts there...seems like almost annually one turns over. We will make an effort to visit the beach and restaurant in Feb when we visit. We have a friend in the hotel business and he said there are several places where "turnover" is constant and Ansel Marcel is one of them because on SXM most don't want to be that isolated or to go AI. I believe the Meridian closed after that fiasco with the road that went un repaired for ages leaving the hotel with no guests for quite awhile. Raddison didn't make a profit either so in came RIU. Time will tell if another comes along.
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Re: Anse Marcel Beach
[Re: murphycpcu]
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12/02/2015 03:05 PM
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pat
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The good thing about this place - or one of the many good things - is you can go and spend a lovely and comfortable day on the beach and throw in a lovely meal with or without wines, etc., without having to deal with night driving and all the other stuff. And it can be a full day or merely a lunch stop but personally speaking, I'd do the former. And if it does turn into what you might consider an expensive day, eat in that night or just have a pizza or something very light if you're so inclined.
My one warning, though, is if you're looking for rough waters and waves to play in, you probably won't enjoy this beach all that much. <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: Anse Marcel Beach
[Re: JohnandBev]
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12/02/2015 09:06 PM
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pat
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John and Bev,
To clarify - maybe.
Once upon a time, in the land of Oz.....sorry, wrong story.
Once upon a time the main resort out there was La (Le?) Meridian. LaDomaine and L'Habitation were also there but possibly at the top of the hill and Meridian was at sea level. It had an incredible check-in area and was quite lovely but very remote at the time, there being almost nothing else up that hill and in that area.
A few years ago L' Meridian became the Radisson Bleu or perhaps, just the Radisson to most Americans, and again, this was the beach level property.
Just a couple of years later it became the RIU AI resort. It is at their gatehouse where you need to hang a left and head on to the Restaurant at Anse Marcel, for want of a better name to call it.
It's a very pleasant place to spend a day and to the best of my information, it is a totally independent property with no connection to RIU. <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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