St. Maarten (NL) including St Martin (Fr) 

A Top Caribbean Holiday Choice For Family Vacations

Head for St. St. Maarten if you want to give your family a Caribbean vacation that is a as memorable as the memories you make there with people you love and cherish!

There are many ways in which you can enjoy the natural beauty, island charms and truly enjoy a fantastic family holiday without every having to worry about running of things to do on a Caribbean holiday when you book a trip to St. Maarten. For example, if you can imagine yourself as a crew aboard one of the America’s Cup racing yacht, well you’re in luck – because you can actually indulge that fantasy and have your dream come true here.

Or, if you like to be one with nature, you can go for a un-hurried nature ramble through the famed Butterfly farm and know the beauty and grandeur of God’s tiny creatures filled with rainbow hued wings flitting in hundreds among the tropical background of St. Marteen’s famous Butterfly Farm.

Alternately, you can go on an fully-guided day tour of Pic du Paradis, one of the best eco-trails that avid hikers to St. Maarten’s love to take up as a challenge that is beautiful and rewarding in the nature of the topography and the local knowledge they pick up from a trained guide accompanying them all the way on this trail.

Another great holiday activity for St. Maarten is to book a zip line trip for skimming the forest treetops situated in Loterie Farm.

For die-hard shoppers, there’s a veritable shopper’s paradise awaiting them at Phillipsburg, St. Maarten’s best choice for bargain hunters who love craft items, leather goods and jewelry!!

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For those of you who may be getting a little confused about the spelling of St. Maarten we’ve used here, and the St. Martin you may know of, please rest assured that no switch-over has taken place. For over 350 years, these 2 island nations have existed alongside each other on an expanse of 37-square-miles. While Saint Maarten is the Dutch region, Saint Martin is the French nation, but with nary a check point or road-block hindering travel between them, tourism gets a boost whichever island one chooses to visit for a seamless, scenic and exceptionally well-developed exotic Caribbean holiday!!

It’s not the regular picture of a sleepy Caribbean idyll either with both sections of the island (for the Dutch part, Phillipsburg, is the capital city and offers loads of shopping scope for cruise liner passengers who love to also pick up stylish jewelry, unique local crafts, famous Dutch linen, authentic, high-quality leather and boutique shopping products) catering to rich, famous and adventurous world travelers besides regular family folk and the business travel crowd. As such, Front Street gets the maximum tourist crowds with its upscale boutiques lining Front Street, which have mostly fixed price shops while bargain hunters are better off trying to snag one or more good discounts at Back Street's Market Place where vendors allow for decent haggling.

However, what is common to both the French and the Dutch St. Martin and St. Maarten respectively is that shopping bargains are available at both places, since these are duty free ports that stock a wide variety of French perfumes, fine crystal décor items and fancy cosmetics besides offering regular souvenir type items and live casino gambling experiences for those interested in testing Lady Luck!

For those with teens and young children, silver bracelets, trinkets and T-shirts are available at the Back Street’s Market Place at affordable prices and are worth an afternoon jaunt for leisurely bargain hunting.

Families that have true water babies and like the idea of sailing, the idea floated before about becoming a crew aboard a racing yacht in the America's Cup races is a great way to spend an unforgettable Caribbean vacation at St. Maarten. Just remember to grind the winch, keep sails trimmed and mark time while also helping the other family members with any tasks during the competition that may challenge them as all vessels hitting the waters are sleek and fast, thus coordination is very important to ensure a win.

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