Philipsburg, St. Maarten Port Reviews

Again, we did an Island tour and again had the best tour guide. We went to two different beaches that were very nice.

Ship didn't offer an excursion here so we booked our own. Blue Bubbles ATVs well worth it! The French bakery on the French side of the island is phenomenal.

Unless you're buying jewelry at a discount, take an uncrowded extra "sea day" & avoid this port. French side is a nude beach, which is more like a nude SuperWalmart on a Saturday at 9 in the morning anywhere in America, if they herded everyone out into the parking lot and made them strip. I now understand the term "ugly American". I have yet to walk onto a clothing OPTIONAL beach and NOT walked away wishing it had been clothing MANDATORY ‼️😬 Dutch side: One of the nastiest and dirtiest places in the Caribbean. Excursion notes: 💥💥💥Do not take the Great Bay Beach excursion, as it is easily walking distance from the ship for FREE! 💥💥💥Avoid the Dutch Blonde Beach wine and cheese excursion! Avoid at all costs‼️🚫🍷🧀🚫 (obtw, the wine tasting on Beyond is great) Decent wine & cheese pairings were destroyed by a horrible host, eaten alive by self-absorption, who never shut up for one second and spent 2.9 hours of a 3 hour event bragging about his life story about how he became a Malignant Narcissist, which is neither noteworthy nor impressive. Dr. Love-Myself talked 99% more about how he made his own (disgusting) beer, than either wine or cheese, about which he knew less than nothing. It took far too long between the next teeny tiny amount of wine to come, apparently so the King Pontificator could tell the frightfully uninteresting story about adding an escape room onto the worst bar and restaurant in st maarten to fleece the tourists even more. Just look at the pictures I took: there is twice as much cheese on a big mac! Oh man i hate an excursion host who tries to upsell you CONSTANTLY ‼️‼️‼️‼️😬 Are we clear on this?

Philipsburg is a tourist trap, as tourism seems be the only industry. The island itself is very poor and dirty.

good beaches good liquor shops, expensive taxis.

Moho beach fantastic time. Planes fly close over your head. Beautiful drive to it.

We have visited many times. Sailed with family who had never been to the island so we took a tour to the French side followed by shopping near the port.

Visited: Sep 11, 2021

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Very busy! Lots of shopping.

Didn't do excursion here, just looked around and shopped

No excursions. We wanted to go into town, but had multiple people give us conflicting directions for a taxi so we stayed in the port area.