Live Review Oasis Of The Sea 1/30/2022 - 2/06/2022 Virtual Cruise Plenty of Pictures.

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38 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Just curious, what part of NJ are you from? Lived my entire life in  NJ until about 13 months ago

NNJ - Hudson County.  It’s becoming more like NYC everyday!

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17 minutes ago, cruisecookie said:

How does service in the Windjammer buffet work now?  I had heard that because of COVID-19 precautions, passengers could not take their own food.  Servers would hand your food to you instead.  Is this true?

There are some pre plated pre cup options but mostly they serve you.  I like it this way.  I feel there is less food waste this way.

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17 minutes ago, BennyBrun said:

NNJ - Hudson County.  It’s becoming more like NYC everyday!

Yeah, you have to have patience there for sure, getting so busy. We were in South Jersey near Medford, NJ in Burlington County.  It was starting to get  conjested there too and the taxes were 4 times what we are paying now and we have half the house in NJ that we now have in Virginia.

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2 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Yeah, you have to have patience there for sure, getting so busy. We were in South Jersey near Medford, NJ in Burlington County.  It was starting to get  conjested there too and the taxes were 4 times what we are paying now and we have half the house in NJ that we now have in Virginia.

That is another topic for another time … the property taxes!

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Day 5 St.Maarten 

 

Walking off the ship.  The NCL Gem is about to pull in!

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Day 5 St.Maarten  Into the Compound we go!

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Day 5 St.Maarten The duty free ship prices are terrible.  Walk outside and into town for better prices!  Also they prohibit pictures inside the store … oooops!

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Day 5 St.Maarten Inside the cruiser terminal

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Day 5 St.Maarten Getting closer to the exit!

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The walk into town is about 25 minutes where you will find shops, Great Bay beach area and you can walk to the Great Salt Pond if you want to.  The walk is nice and fairly easy.  Watch out for cars and scooters!  

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6 minutes ago, BennyBrun said:

Day 5 St.Maarten  Into the Compound we go!

Ahhh Guavaberry Colada

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The boats that were damaged from the previous hurricane are still there

 

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by BennyBrun

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2 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Ahhh Guavaberry Colada

The reason we are walking into town to buy Guavaberry liquor my without the heavy markup!

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The entrance into town… casinos casinos casinos 

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So we walked a blocks on Back St.  not the best experience so we walked around to front steeet.

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Our Guava Emporium…. CLOSED!  Due to the pandemic!!!!

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Day 5 St.Maarten Even the convent closed!

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Day 5 St.Maarten Front Street.  Unless you have a reason I really would not pay for a tour of downtown where they give you time to shop.  You can easily walk out into town.

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Day 5 St.Maarten More Front Street

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The great salt pond.  Not so great but I was curious!

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Duck…low ceiling when you go into the market to browse.

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Walking towards Great Bay Beach area.

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Made it onto the boardwalk!  You can still see the hurricane damage and now add Covid to it!

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Great Bay Beach.  If you want a value beach get away… this is the beach for you!  Walk into town and you are there.  If you need a chair / umbrella lots of places that have a combo deal.  $25.00 for two chairs and an umbrella, either 2 drinks/5 beers or 4 drinks depending on which place you stop.  Browse around!

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Great Bay Beach!