What Not to Bring!

Well that is of course a personal preference but here are some tips that may help you decide.

• Don’t bring cigarettes or cigars if you’re a smoker. Much cheaper down in St.Maarten.
• Winter clothes? Uh no.
• Suntan block, any of your favorite foods, perfumes, alcohol, jewelry, toiletries, beach gear such as towels,…none of the above. St.Maarten-SintMartin has hundreds of duty-free stores that will happily sell you these items at great prices.
• You may want to bring you’re your surfboard, golf clubs and tennis rackets if you like to travel with maximum load, but considering how cumbersome and trying air travel has become, you might simply want to rent or buy these items when on the island.
• It is a known fact that many timeshare owners used to bring at least a suitcase full of food items for their vacation. The charge of luggage transport by some airlines at $10-$20 per checked piece, will equalize the slightly higher cost of foods on the island, with a lot less hassle while traveling.

And just a suggestion, leave your work at home, because you will find at the end of your vacation that there really was no time to work. After all St. Maarten - St.Martin has a reputation to keep up: the party island.