Philipsburg Stories


Sint Maarten

After 4 ports in 4 days, we both just wanted a beach day. Philipsburg has really accomodated that for cruise ships! They've extended the beach and added beach chairs and umbrellas. We took the $6 round trip water taxi from the ship and walked about 3 bars down to find chairs from the Black Pearl! $15 for two loungers, umbrellas, 2 frozen drinks for Shaw...


Philipsburg

Today was a busy day! We had room service for breakfast again (they left out my pastry and coffee, the scoundrels!), and waited for the announcement that we were cleared for disembarkation at St. Maarten. When we saw people walking along the pier, we figured we'd missed the announcement and left on our own for the tour. We were on a tour bus again, but ...