St. Maarten Best Island Tour

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Duration:5 hours to 6 hours (approx.)
Location: St Maarten,

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Sights, Monuments, Forts, Museums, Shopping, Beaches, Art,Culture & History. We have won the award for best island tour on the island for 2023 with Viator. Book now to create memories that will last forever. A complete tour around the island with breath-taking sights and wonderful stops. Panoramic views and a professional narration of the island’s complete history. Browse the capital of both sides of the island and be around the locals to see how they live and what they eat then hike our biggest Fort or just walk around and take pictures of some of our monuments. Spend time at the two most popular beaches on the island, explore our duty free, and tax-free shopping which is great for jewelry, alcohol, real Cuban cigars, local handy craft, souvenirs, rum, spices, etc. There are 6 stops on this tour plus bonus stops to sample free cheese and Rhum, all stops are 25mins apart. Sip on some free beverages from our cooler and relax. This will truly be a day in paradise. Book now to experience.

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1. Cole Bay
The number one photo stop on the Dutch side, "The Harold Jack look out point" on Cole Bay hill. Breathe taking sights and panoramic views at the top of the hill. Take pictures and selfies with an amazing background of the Simpson bay lagoon and other surrounding islands.
2. Topper's Rhum Distillery
get to sample Rhum , a chance to buy ice cream and hear the history behind the rhum
3. Maho Beach
This is the main attraction of the island, you may have seen it on the news channels and internet media now you can live it live. Be entertained at the most talked about beach in the world, “Maho beach”. Watch the planes land and take off while you sip on some rum punch or any other free beverage that you can choose from in our cooler. Browse the Maho village and take some more pictures so when you plan your vacation, you might want to stay in this area.
4. Marigot
WEE WEE, welcome to the capital of the French side, "Marigot" at this stop you will get to experience our duty free and tax free luxury while you shop for gifts, souvenirs, alcohol, organic coconuts, real Cuban cigars and try some of our local food and exquisite French bakeries that would have your mouth running water. After all that you can walk it off and choose to hike the 100 steps to our biggest fort then come back down and visit the French museum.
5. Orient Bay Beach
Beach time is the best time, Hoorayyyyyyyy. Feel the powder white sand under your feet as your explore this unique beach. Orient beach is most popular for having two sections at the beach, a nude section and a clothing section. We will bring you to the clothing section and for those who want to take a peak on the other side be prepare, you might not like what you see. On the entire beach there will be Beach bars, fine restaurants with beach chairs & umbrellas. You can choose to swim, rent jet skis, fly board, parasailing, snorkeling or any other water sport. Rest rooms, changing rooms, fresh water wash area will be available at most of the beach bars and restaurants.
6. Orient Bay
Get your cameras ready, "Paradise View" look out point. From the top of this hill you will be in awe with the magnificent view of the Atlantic Ocean as the waves form in order to create Orient beach. Take pictures of St. Barths in your background and soak in this moment as it would be one to remember.
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Let’s scream “Goedenmiddag” which means good day in Dutch as we cross the border and come back on the Dutch side. We will drive slowly across the border so we can take pictures of the flags and the border monument while the tour guide explains you about the date of the treaty that you will see there. We will now head on back to the cruise facility or you can choose to get drop off in down town Philipsburg so you can continue your shopping spree, for what you didn’t find in Marigot you will surely get here. Down town Philipsburg is the eye candy for shoppers, nowhere in the world will you find two back to back streets (Front Street and Back street) with a variety of fine jewelry with the best prices you won’t get anywhere else. You can also visit the Dutch side museum and another beach which is parallel of the shopping area or visit the home of our national liqueur, The Guava berry Emporium. Go inside and sample some flavors and see how we make our local Rum. If you choose to get drop off, you will have three ways on how to get back to the ship. A regular taxi, a water taxi or a 30 minute walk. Those who wants to go back to the ship please remain on the bus and the driver will bring you back to where the tour started at the cruise facility.
8. Amsterdam Cheese and Liquor Store
Sample free cheese and a chance to buy local and international alcohol, gifts and souvenirs

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Posted By : TVaughn12
This tour was absolutely fantastic! We received great communications where the tour would meet at the pier and what time. Our tour guide, Franklin, was terrific. He was very knowledgeable about the area and was able to answer all our questions. All the stops were incredible and the scenery was breathtaking. Both the Dutch and French sides are beautiful. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone wanting to get out and see what this island is all about, take some pictures, and just have a great day. I cannot recommend it more.
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Posted On : 2024-07-08 14:21:26

Posted By : MARIE_B
Our tour operator Calvin was exceptional. Very informative and helpful. Enjoyed sightseeing both sides of the island. High recommend.
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Posted On : 2024-07-07 09:11:24

Posted By : Malissa_J
I had a such amazing time on the tour. Cutty was a great tour guide. He shared so much knowledge about the island and provided great recommendations for restaurants, places to visit and shop. I would definitely recommend this tour with Cutty
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Posted On : 2024-07-05 21:52:00

Posted By : SusieC637
Loved all the sights of St Maarten, Maho Bay was very cool with the planes coming in. Orient Beach you get an eyeful, be warned -haha. Loved the iguana stop and the St Martin stop with lunch at a French bistro, pastries were yum.
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Posted On : 2024-07-05 10:30:32

Posted By : Kenneth_R
We took this tour three months ago and it was awful as the guide simply wasn’t knowledgeable. We decided to take it again thinking all off the guides couldn’t be that, well terrible!! Chevin was AMAZING!!!
His knowledge of this island was second to none! We had a small group so he was actually able to personalize the tour for us a bit, which was exactly what we needed. We’d take the tour again just so we can hang out for the day with him again. Do yourselves a favor and ask for Chevin!!!
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Posted On : 2024-07-05 09:19:42

Posted By : Blanca_E
I was giving the wrong tour. Had to pay for a taxi to be taken were the place off meething was was there 30 mn before my trip and was told i had to go to a different place to be picked up
@9.30 my husband and i were the only one in the tour .i am not happy waisted my money to go somewhere i did not pay for. I will be gething in touch with a manager.
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Posted On : 2024-06-30 11:51:08

Posted By : xavianns
Was a great trip.can’t wait to go again.the staff was wonderful.It’s a must to do while in St maarten.arrive early so you can have fun all day.
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Posted On : 2024-06-29 06:25:45

Posted By : Laura_S
Tony was a great tour guide. loved orient beach the best. maho was fun as well as the rhum distillery. great day.
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Posted On : 2024-06-28 15:11:49

Posted By : Sabrina
We had an amazing time. Franklin was the absolute best. He gave us lots of information about the island and took us some wonderful attractions and a great local place on the French side called Strictly Lokal for lunch. They some yummy Creole Caribbean food.
Thank you Franklin for making our day great. Oh yeah and that homemade rum punch was the bomb!!
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Posted On : 2024-06-26 17:28:55

Posted By : Elizabeth_P
Started horrible because they put 30 people on a small bus with air that barely worked. We got a late start so we didn’t get to do all of the activities. We did bio some awesome spot but the bus situation and late start was not good. Tour guide was awesome. Bus was trash!
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Posted On : 2024-06-24 20:14:01