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Hi,

 

What a fantastic and interesting review, I loved the photo's and glad to hear your feeling better and your accident did not spoil your vacation.

 

I am going on a cruise to St Maarten in March, I know we are the only Ship in port that day so it should make the traffic congestion easier but my question is if you had left Maho at 2pm instead of 2.30pm if that would have been easier getting a taxi and if you think the trip was worth it?

 

How many Ships was in port on the day you arrived and how many passengers do you think was their in total?

 

 

 

Just a heads up. If you are going to be on the island in March during the Heinekin Regatta even if there is only one ship in port the traffic will still be busy and there might even be more bridge opening times as there will be lots of boat traffic as well. Also on Saturdays and Sundays in high season like March there are lots of people arriving by plane and many are going to timeshares in the Simpson Bay area so don't just base your time management on how many ships are going to be in port.

 

Thank you so much for this information, I checked it out and the Heinekin Regatta is 3rd-6th March 2011. we are in port on a Monday.

 

I love this forum for all the help we get :)

 

Regards

Lynn

9/11 is the date that we went on the cruise (9/11/10). So all of us on here that were going on the cruise and did the meet & greet group called ourselves the 9/11 group. (There were over 100 of us on here and the fb group). :)

 

 

 

I'm not sure if it would have made too much of a difference getting up there 1/2 hour earlier. There was quite a crowd there during those hours. However, we had PLENTY of time to not only get back toward the port, but also time for some shopping (I sat down at the Taxi station and the hubby ran around shopping within distance for me to see). Then I finally got up and wobbled over to a few different stands to buy some things and then the LONG haul back to the ship (for me since I couldn't walk fast) and we got on the ship earlier than needed.

 

We did not know, until we returned to the dock, that there were other ships that were there with us...especially the OASIS! They announced that this was the first time in history (since Epic was released) that the 3 biggest cruise ships had been there all on the same day...Oasis, Epic and Dream. Oasis was only there that day because they had changed their itinerary due to the Hurricane. So the Oasis also followed us to St Thomas as well (where we ended up having 4 cruise ships there with us there that day).

 

I also read on someone another post that there is a lot of construction in the airport area right now, which takes it longer to get around. I didn't see any construction, but then again, we went a different way around to avoid all the traffic, so we might have missed it.

 

I definitely think it was worth it. It's a must see (at least for a few hours). I don't think you'll have a problem, especially if you are the only ship there that day.

Thank you :)

Lynn

Hi,

What a fantastic and interesting review, I loved the photo's and glad to hear your feeling better and your accident did not spoil your vacation.

I am going on a cruise to St Maarten in March, I know we are the only Ship in port that day so it should make the traffic congestion easier but my question is if you had left Maho at 2pm instead of 2.30pm if that would have been easier getting a taxi and if you think the trip was worth it?

How many Ships was in port on the day you arrived and how many passengers do you think was their in total?

Thanks for your great review!

Regards

Lynn