Peachy59

Thanks for that review. I was looking at this but they don't really answer all my questions on their website. Do they provide loungers on the beach? Are there places to purchase water or any kind of beverages?

What hotel is that? I like the look of that pool!

First of all, saving a few dollars is not the "sole basis" of our journey. Walking to the bus depot will help us get in some steps for the day, and we rather enjoy getting to meet some of the locals. This is not our first rodeo. We've been to St Marteen a few times, but we've never used the buses there. The one time we went to Maho, we were with an excursion. We wouldn't even be going back, but the rest of the family has never been. The question was more about getting a taxi back. We have used public transportation on several of the islands, and it's always been fine and a bit of an adventure. It's also usually just my husband and me. This time there will be 7 of us. But, I'm wondering if we take the bus there, how difficult it would be to get a taxi back, since I've reading they give you a wristband when you take the taxi there. One person said they were charged for round trip, just for the one way taxi back. So, back to the original question. How difficult is it to get a taxi back to the pier if you didn't already pay for the round trip? I'm also wondering if they even have a taxi that fits 7 people? I know the buses do, if we can be the first to catch it. We plan to head back pretty early, around 2:00, to walk around Philipsburg a little. We have a Star Wars nerd in the bunch, who must go see The Yoda Guy. 👽

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to get a taxi back from Maho if we took the public bus there? Has anybody done this? It seems like they want to charge round-trip fares. There will be 7 of us, so we thought we might save a bit of money by doing this. Anyone?

We just got ours today. Took 12 weeks from when they cashed the check.

Does anyone know what the current rates are?

Probably safer than any school in the USA.

If you order breakfast do you have to specify you want it from the MDR? I ask because on our last cruise when we ordered breakfast we could tell it was just regular RS and didn't come from MDR. On previous cruises when we ordered breakfast we could tell it did come form MDR even though we didn't specify. It was very odd. Also, they sometimes wouldn't even answer the phone. This was last December in a Grand Suite on Harmony.

I have never had a steward vacuum, unless we requested it, except on turn around day.

Absolutely not!

It's incredibly rude. We like to get away from the noise and relax on our QUIET balcony. I would report it.

We were at Barefoot in December. Asolutely nothing special about the buffet there.

Thanks! Fixed mine too!

Tell them you are traveling with a carry-on and can't take any products home.

Round trip? Can you explain how this works? Do they give you tickets to use for the return or the same taxi comes back at a specified time, or what? Thanks for any info.