ORIENT BEACH BEST FOOD MUSIC DRINKS?

[Hollyhawk]

Which were your favorite restaurants? What did you eat, drink, how much did it cost?
If it matters we will be there 1/26/05 from 8am-10pm on the Ms.Zaandam.

Happy Sails to you!

[rick10010x]

You will never go wrong with any of these Orient Beach bar/restaurants.
Rick

[url="http://www.partyorientbeach.com/"]http://www.partyorientbeach.com/[/url]

[Hollyhawk]

Thank You Rick [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

Happy Sails to you!

[rick10010x]

Hollyhawk:
Here's a map that will help you find these beach bar restaurants.
Rick

[url="http://home.carolina.rr.com/edsandra/OrientPanorama.htm"]http://home.carolina.rr.com/edsandra/OrientPanorama.htm[/url]

[gtaylor]

[B]Hollyhawk[/B];

I would just like to point out that a lot of things can/will change between now and 2005.

I'd suggest that you check back closer to the end of THIS year.

_____
We must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Hollyhawk]

gtaylor,

Thanks for the heads up!

Happy Sails to you!

[TrishnKevin]

Are there any nice beaches within walking distance from the pier?

[The Big Booper]

Great Bay, next to Front Street (in the harbor where the ship docks) Nice to sit and watch but I wouldn't go in the water there because of all the marine traffic in the bay and proximity to areas where sewerage is dumped. :eek: :eek:

Take the cab to Orient, one of the best beaches in the world. $6 pp if 4 or more in the van-cab (one way)

[kal]

I second the comment NOT to go into the water at Great Bay. Less than 10% of the sewage is treated. The balance is discharged into open sewers which discharge to ponds, lagoons and bays. Great Bay receives two major discharges. One is right at Bobby's Marina which is next to the Great Bay beach nearest to the cruise terminal side of the bay.

There are NO discharges into Orient Bay and that water is the very purest on the island. Besides, Orient Beach is rated in the top 3 in the Caribbean.

[GTO-Girl]

Orient Beach is just beautiful, but get there early as it gets crowded very fast.

Didn't eat there because they wanted $15 for just a hamburger:eek: . Call me cheap, but I just couldn't see paying that when I had a whole ship full of food waiting on me. Does anyone know if that's the about the normal price of food there?

We'll still go to Orient on our next cruise in April because we love it so much.

[The Big Booper]

For more reasonable food prices, stay away from the big beach bars and head south towards Club O.

We have eaten at Pedros (the last place before Club O) and Baywatch (owned by a refugee from NJ and next to Pedros). Baywatch has hundreds of street signs "pilfered" from NJ, such as Parkway, Turnpike, Newark Airport. The prices were reasonable in the past and we will check in less than 2 weeks :D when we tan all over.

[kal]

[quote name='GTO-Girl']...Didn't eat there because they wanted $15 for just a hamburger:eek: ...[/quote]

Hamburger!!! You're in the gourmet capital of the caribbean and you want HAMBURGERS! :eek:

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[kal]

The escargot are served on a plate like this:

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[The Big Booper]

You are making me hungry. :D 13 days to my buddy at Baywatch. We have signs to add to the inventory.

[kal]

There's no more room!!

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[GTO-Girl]

[quote name='kal']Hamburger!!! You're in the gourmet capital of the caribbean and you want HAMBURGERS! :eek:

[IMG]http://bywindkal.com/SM07/KMmenu2.jpg[/IMG][/quote]
......sorry but we didn't have any idea there was anywhere else to eat besides right where we were on the beach (not being familiar with the area). We didn't want a whole meal only something to tide us over. We didn't know we were going to have to buy the whole cow!

[The Big Booper]

[quote name='kal']There's no more room!!

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Since we are going on the Explorer out of Bayonne, no flying and we don't have to worry about the excess weight of the signs.

We also talked to the owner years ago when he had a standalone operation on the main road near Mont Vernon (we stayed there in 1999).