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Planning a January Eclipse vacation. Not very happy with some Celebrity Shore Excursions - just want to be careful with our $ (love Celebrity otherwise).

Anyone with good experiences on St. Kitts (never been there) and St. Martin (liked Marigot but open to other things)? Also San Juan but it is 2-10pm

We like the beach & nature tours, city tours, hate shopping on excursions.

Thanks alot - cruisers are so helpful.

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texkan

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Planning a January Eclipse vacation. Not very happy with some Celebrity Shore Excursions - just want to be careful with our $ (love Celebrity otherwise).

Anyone with good experiences on St. Kitts (never been there) and St. Martin (liked Marigot but open to other things)? Also San Juan but it is 2-10pm

We like the beach & nature tours, city tours, hate shopping on excursions.

Thanks alot - cruisers are so helpful.

 

Have you joined a Jan '11 Eclipse Roll Call?

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=573

 

Connect with others on your cruise and discuss excursions.

 

St. Kitts there is the train or book excursion to the Fort. San Juan we did the Fort by Segway (lots of fun):

http://www.segwaytourspr.com/

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When we were in St Martin in 2009 with did a tour with Bernard Tours. Great day. Did have a stop for shopping. He took us all over the place, we spent a couple hours at Orient Beach, stopped at the airport beach and saw a couple of planes come in and take off. It was one of the best tours we had ever done. It was us, a family of five and one other couple. Bernard provided drinks all day. There was water, juice, soda, Carib Beer and his famous rum punch.

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txsloth,

haven't been to st martin in a long time. a taxi sounds good - what is a good price? do they wait for you? is it practical to try to go to marigot for pastry & cafe au lait on the way back to the ship?

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txsloth,

haven't been to st martin in a long time. a taxi sounds good - what is a good price? do they wait for you? is it practical to try to go to marigot for pastry & cafe au lait on the way back to the ship?

 

Without looking at a map, I believe Marigot is on the opposite side of the island from Orient Beach--not really feasible to just swing by. Cabs are reasonable--somewhere around $15 per person round trip. Three years in a row our driver has offered to meet us at a pre-arranged time to return to the ship and they've always been prompt.

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In St. Martin it is easy to get a shared taxi at the taxi stand. I saw a link to this web site a long time ago that shows the rates - for more than 2 it is all per person but the more in each cab the less it costs and the dispatchers will group people together:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v357/gtaylor/Taxi/?action=view&current=DSCN3859.jpg

If you're on a tight budget the bars with chair rentals near the south end of the beach (just north of the CO area) will usually bargain a price for a couple chairs and a couple drinks. The nicer beach clubs a little to the north from there are a bit mroe expensive and the food at some is pricier too.

 

The downtown area is nice for shopping and has very nice beach there too (although not as nice as Orient in my opinion). It is close by at either a very long walk (around a mile, possibly longer) to the shopping district or you can take the water taxi or taxi for $3 or $4 each way/pp

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We have also taken a cab to Orient Beach many times... it is one of our favorite beaches. There is a charge for chairs and umbrellas if you want to rent some of those. There are lots of places to choose from for food and drink.

We enjoy swimming there, but there isn't any snorkeling that I know about.

Here's a shot of the beach from a few years ago...

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We have done a catamaran sail through Celebrity several times in St. Kitts. It is called the Fan-ta-sea excursion, and if you like sailing on a catamaran, doing a bit of snorkeling and having a barbecue lunch on the beach over on Nevis, then you might enjoy this. Lots of people drink rum punch while on this excursion, but they have other drinks available, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. It is a fun day, but can be a bit crowded sometimes; other times not at all.

Here's a couple of pictures, some on the catamaran, or at the beach barbecue. The last one was taken on the way back in the afternoon.

 

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Planning a January Eclipse vacation. Not very happy with some Celebrity Shore Excursions - just want to be careful with our $ (love Celebrity otherwise).

 

Anyone with good experiences on St. Kitts (never been there) and St. Martin (liked Marigot but open to other things)? Also San Juan but it is 2-10pm

 

We like the beach & nature tours, city tours, hate shopping on excursions.

 

Thanks alot - cruisers are so helpful.

 

 

San Juan- Take the Segway tour...it's wonderful...you see so MUCH more of San Juan close up...takes you from the pier all the way to the fort and so much more and it's a blast too!! Guides are very informative and riding a Segway is unbelievably easy!

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My DW and I were on the Constellation in Jan 09 and joined a St Kitts tour that was put together via our Cruise Critic Roll Call. The tour was thenfordgrey which you can google. It was very nice and long tour, about 6 hours. The guide was very knowledgeable and very pleasant with good audio equipment in the van. The van held about 15-20 people and was very comfortable.

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My DW and I were on the Constellation in Jan 09 and joined a St Kitts tour that was put together via our Cruise Critic Roll Call. The tour was thenfordgrey which you can google. It was very nice and long tour, about 6 hours. The guide was very knowledgeable and very pleasant with good audio equipment in the van. The van held about 15-20 people and was very comfortable.

 

A second recommendation for Thenford Grey. Great tour and great guide (either Thenford or his brother, Sackville, are delightful hosts).

 

And Segway in San Juan was a highlight.

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