VisitSintMaarten.com covers the whole island — Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint-Martin — and the neighbouring islands you can reach from it in a day. It is written to help you plan a cruise stop, a long weekend or a fortnight, and to make good decisions once you are there.
What we cover
- The towns, beaches and sights on both sides, each with its own page.
- What cruise passengers can realistically do in four, six or eight hours.
- Which tours and boat trips are worth booking, ranked honestly and updated as ratings change.
- Day trips to Anguilla, St Barths and Saba.
- Practical matters: the two currencies, the open border, transport, safety, weather and hurricane season.
- Where to stay, by area and by side.
How we research
Journey times, facilities and arrangements are checked against operators, official sources and booking platforms, and reviewed regularly. Tour ratings and review counts come directly from GetYourGuide; hotels are identified on Trip.com. Where a figure moves around — taxi tariffs, ferry fares, opening hours — we tell you to check on the day rather than pretending to a precision that does not exist.
Where we express an opinion, it is an opinion. We tell you when a day trip is too ambitious for a port call, when a beach loses its sand in winter, and when the free option is the better one. Where GetYourGuide has no suitable product — for Saba, for scheduled St Barths ferries — we say so rather than point you at something that does not fit.
How the site is funded
We are a GetYourGuide affiliate partner, and accommodation links go to Trip.com. If you book through a link on this site, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That is the only way this guide is funded — there is no advertising, no sponsored placement and no paid inclusion in any ranking. Read the full affiliate disclosure.
Corrections
Islands change fast, and this one has rebuilt itself more than once. If something here is out of date or wrong, please tell us — we would rather fix it than defend it. Write to us via the contact page.
Images
All photography on this site is freely licensed (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Every photographer is credited on our image credits page.
